Question 1

Is The Midnight Sky woke?

Accepted Answer

The Midnight Sky has a woke score of 25/100, which means it is not especially woke compared with higher-scoring titles. The movie pushes a vague environmental message about humans not looking after the planet. Diverse space crew includes intentional representation via David Oyelowo’s name change to a Nigerian surname. Story sticks to regret, isolation, and human connection without identity politics or heavy lectures. No activist dialogue or systemic critiques appear.

Question 2

Is there DEI in The Midnight Sky?

Accepted Answer

The biggest factors in our score are Representation / casting choices, Creator track record context, Institutional / cultural critique. A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

The Midnight Sky

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