Started January 7, 2019 · Ended · Based on 4 seasons, 38 episodes through April 7, 2022 · TV-MA · 44 min
Coroner follows Jenny Cooper, a widowed single mother and former ER doctor who works as a coroner in Toronto. She investigates sudden or suspicious deaths while struggling with anxiety and raising her teenage son. The show features a diverse cast that includes a trans woman as a main supporting pathologist assistant and a gay son, and marketing highlights celebrating racial and gender diversity in the city.
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Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Coroner.
Woke representation / casting
Prominent trans woman character River Baitz in the pathology team plus gay son and lesbian assistant. Marketing and lead actress comments frame diversity as something to celebrate. Toronto setting allows some natural mix but the emphasis is audience visible.
68%
Woke political dialogue
No repeated activist lectures or explicit ideological speeches. Cases stay focused on investigations and personal grief.
5%
Production
Identity-driven story themes
Queer supporting characters and single mother arcs appear regularly. Core stories remain procedural mysteries about deaths rather than heavy messaging.
42%
Western institutional / cultural critique
Standard coroner and police teamwork with no activist framing of institutions, patriarchy, or systemic issues.
0%
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant. The show adapts British novels by localizing to Toronto without ideological swaps to known characters or figures.
0%
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Almost no public complaints treat the show as pushing woke, DEI, or identity politics. Evidence remains thin.
5%
Creator track record context
Morwyn Brebner built diverse rooms on mainstream dramas. No strong record of activist or identity-first projects from key creatives.
26%
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