Is The Wire (2002) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 73 / 100 (WOKE-leaning (left-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
TV series: Crime, Drama, 2002.
8 votes: 75% WOKE, 25% CHUD.
Why: Critique of the drug war and institutions
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.