Movie review
July 28, 2025 · 102 min · R
Woke Score
Lower is better
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Together.
Woke representation / casting
Natural casting of real married leads enhances authenticity for the codependency story; same-sex backstory character and androgynous merged form fit the narrative premise without mismatches, forced quotas, or visible identity signaling.
Woke political dialogue
No activist, social-justice, or ideological dialogue; conversations stay on personal fears, relationship tensions, and the cult's fusion ideas as horror metaphor.
Identity-driven story themes
Strong central focus on identity dissolution and merger in romantic/codependent love through body horror, including same-sex precedent and androgynous resolution; serves psychological and existential metaphor rather than modern activist identity politics or representation agenda, though noticeable to some viewers.
Western institutional / cultural critique
Minimal; rural setting and fringe cult backdrop personal horror without critiques of Western institutions, patriarchy, traditional norms, or systemic issues.
Review
Together (2025) is a supernatural body horror film about long-term couple Tim and Millie (played by real-life married actors Dave Franco and Alison Brie) who move to the countryside and encounter a mysterious force that causes their bodies to physically fuse as their relationship strains. The grotesque transformations serve as a visceral metaphor for codependency, the loss of individual identity in love, and the extremes of attachment, culminating in an androgynous merged being. A supporting character with a same-sex marriage backstory illustrates the fusion concept, but the story remains centered on personal relationship horror without activist dialogue or political framing.
Woke character or canon changes
Original screenplay with no established source material, canon, or historical figures altered for ideological reasons.
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Limited fringe online complaints label fusion elements, same-sex backstory, or androgynous ending as woke or identity politics; no mainstream media outrage, organized campaigns, or widespread accusations of DEI/propaganda.
Creator track record context
Michael Shanks shows no activist pattern; Alison Brie has classical liberal record (gay rights support, policy criticism); other producers and creatives have commercial or neutral profiles without recurring identity-driven or social-justice creative work.
Production
