Canceled

"there are plenty of examples of "woke" media that do just fine."

Oh, really? Like what?

PC bullshit isn't necessarily about 'wokeness', mind you, and if you radicalize everything, in movies or video games, and try to sell it as normal, people won't budge it. That's why even though TLOU2 has a critic's score of 9.3, the user's score are 5.7. Now let's see how they mimic the franchise's success with a third TLOU.

Let's talk about Batwoman. Oh wait, nevermind, it's a success with a score of 3.4 on IMDB.

Let's talk about Watchmen. Almost 100% on Rotten Tomatoes but 50% of average audience score.

Woke products are never organic. You feel coecerd, dirty. And those who claim to liked a particular product are never actually satisfied. They just lie to themselves.

Must suck to see your art go woke then go broke

I think the issue is not too much or too little, it is the fact that it is not true to reality. In order to push a narrative, everything that happens in Woke scripts becomes completely manichaean, without nuance, psychologically and sociologically implausible. It requires too much suspension of judgement to be enjoyable. Characters that belong to allegedly oppressed groups are not allowed to go through difficult times, so their character development is usually inexistant, they are immediately succeeding at everything because it would be unpopular if they had doubts or flaws like every other character. Another issue is when you do a superhero film like Dr Strange and then make the entire film about how pathetic and weak he is compared to Wanda and some unknown new girl. It is just illogical for a superhero film that the superhero be pathetic, it just loses the audience that admired that hero. Wanda is a pretty OP character in its own right and her film was great, though, it was not unrealistic and as the superhero it made sense that she would be empowered in her own film.
In many Marvel series you can see superheroes being weak and even often weaker than their girlfriend, black friend, etc. I am all for minorities having interesting characters but in superhero franchises it is understandable that if you kill the superhero and devalue them to an insufferable degree, the film or series starts to tank.

In Rings of Power for example, this was not the case. The black elve has a beautiful role but so has Elrond and his Dwarven friend, so does Elrond, so does Galadriel. Galadriel has doubts and is even deceived, so the plot is realistic and interesting. This is very different from the last Star Wars where Rei succeeds at everything without ever knowing doubt (mastering doubt and resisting the temptation of the dark side of force is canon for the series, you can't just remove that to transform the hero character in a Mary Sue).

I thought season 1 sucked too and went nowhere, plus it was extremely vulgar and nasty and hard to sit thru. The first two episodes were intriguing and showed promise, though.

I agree, Sarah. We live in what the Chinese curse describes as “interesting times.”