Silent Witness - most "woke" TV episode ever?

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We generally enjoy SW and its done well to keep up its storylines and characters after so many years. However,this week's two-parter had me gnashing my teeth and turning into a grumpy old BBC critic (which I'm generally very much not). In two hours of story they managed to cover off all the following SJW woke issues:

Gentleman's Club 19th century attitudes - check
White male privilege power - check
Domestic violence male on female - check
Controlling relationship female on female - check
Open lesbian public affection - check
Paraplegic in trad macho environment (police) - check
Bullying of said paraplegic by ignorant boss - check
Court judgements having no emotion - check
Abusive relationship of parents (for main character) - check
Murder by the lest likely statistically - check

I'm all for inclusivity and would label myself a liberal if pushed (prepare for PH incoming) but the amount of right-on script crammed into 2 hours became a joke.

Anyways - rant over, back to some more fantastical stiuff next week

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DSLiverpool said:

You missed the detectives assistant.
Racial diversity in the cast - check

Ah yes silly me, I'm colourblind, I didn't even realise Megham Markle was black until someone got upset.

Did I miss the Climate Change angle ?

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At least they’ve reduced the wokeness. I watched both on catch up whilst working abroad and they were reasonably entertaining. The premise is always a bit far fetched (forensic people doing actual detective work) but I can suspend disbelief enough. Interesting to see what the rest of the series is like as they usually get progressively more ludicrous or signalling. Not sure what the new guy’s going to turn out to be but there’s definitely a planted plot line there.

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gt_12345 said:

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At least they’ve reduced the wokeness.

You spoke too soon

Yup, watched both back to back on a long flight yesterday (nothing better to do, I can never find an onboard film I want to watch). Good to see the disability card back as well as the moral dilemmas. Quite liked the grumpy DI but what is it about them summoning backups and armed response then they run off alone chasing the bloke they've just informed everyone is armed and dangerous ?

Gotta keep watching just for this thread alone now

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..and how did they quickly get the two forensics out from the train they'd just discovered had a bomb next to it when the next scene says no-one can go in before the robot had done its job ?