TV Show review
Review basis: 2 seasons, 16 episodes · through February 21, 2025
September 1, 2022 · TV-14 · Canceled
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
Pantheon is an animated sci-fi show about digital life. A teenage girl named Maddie finds out her dead father's mind was scanned into a computer. Her father becomes a digital ghost to help her against a corrupt tech company. The show has a very diverse voice cast from different countries, which fits the global story. However, it does not have modern social-justice themes, and it focuses on traditional family values.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Pantheon.
Woke representation / casting
The voice cast is very diverse, with prominent Asian, Indian, and Black characters. This casting matches the global storyline, which involves tech development in different parts of the world. The characters are written with human flaws rather than as idealized tokens, keeping the representation grounded and story-justified.
Woke political dialogue
The show has no activist lecturing or modern social-justice terminology. The dialogue focuses entirely on hard science, technology, ethics, and the corporate espionage plot.
Identity-driven story themes
The core themes are about the meaning of consciousness, clone struggles, and human survival. The narrative does not focus on modern racial, gender, or sexual identity politics, and it contains no LGBTQ+ characters or storylines.
Western institutional / cultural critique
The plot features a corrupt tech company that exploits human minds for profit. While this is a critique of corporate capitalism, it is standard cyberpunk worldbuilding rather than an activist attack on Western culture, masculinity, or traditional social norms.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
There is almost no political backlash. A few fringe comments online complained that Maddie has a self-righteous attitude, but the overall reception has been focused purely on the show's high quality and sci-fi ideas.
Creator track record context
Creator Craig Silverstein holds a low score, but the production team is a mix. A couple of writers and producers have a strong history of focusing on LGBTQ+ and representation-driven projects, while the rest have little to no activist track record.
Production
