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Unfortunately, like many companies chasing after trends in shitty ways, BBC really fucked up Jodie Whittaker's reign by trying to jump on this woke bandwagon by hiring some of the shittiest soap opera writers they could find, to push every kind of topic around racist, sexism, etc. in the most heavy-handed and clumsy way possible. So much wasted potential when they brought in the first female Doctor.
And before you start downvoting me for somehow being some right-wing hack just because I said the word "woke", let's not forget that Jay Exci, a trans person, wrote a five-hour rant shredding every single episode of that season in detail.
You may or may not be “some right-wing hack”, but you proudly display the intelligence of one