Started August 31, 2018 · Ended · Based on 4 seasons, 40 episodes through December 16, 2022 · TV-MA
Paradise PD is an adult animated comedy about a highly incompetent, corrupt, and crude police department in a small town. The officers spend their time bumbling through drug cases, fighting with each other, and causing chaos. The show features highly vulgar parodies of police brutality, racial tension, and gun control. These political topics and characters, like a bisexual senior officer, are used purely for crude shock humor rather than activist messaging.
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Was our 24% Woke rating accurate?
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Paradise PD.
Woke representation / casting
The series includes a diverse cast, such as a female officer, a black officer, and a bisexual elderly officer. However, none of these characters are shown as highly competent or heroic. They are depicted as deeply corrupt, stupid, and crude stereotypes. Under the scoring rules, the presence of the openly bisexual character (Stanley Hopson) increases the score, but his depiction is meant entirely to shock and offend rather than offer positive representation.
20%
Woke political dialogue
The dialogue is packed with offensive slurs, gross-out jokes, and insults aimed at all political sides. The show does not promote modern activist ideas. Instead, it mocks both left-wing and right-wing talking points, showing no real interest in taking any political stance.
Production
5%
Identity-driven story themes
While the series touches on themes like race, gender, and sexuality, it handles them with complete nihilism. For example, a storyline about race relations and police brutality is turned into a farce where a black officer shoots himself. These themes are used for crude, equal-opportunity shock humor rather than promoting social justice.
5%
Western institutional / cultural critique
The show centers on a highly incompetent and corrupt police department, and it frequently ridicules authority figures, religion, and traditional family units. However, this is not a serious activist critique of Western systems or systemic whiteness. It is a juvenile, low-brow comedy that mocks all institutions purely for cheap, vulgar laughs.
28%
Woke character or canon changes
Not present in this title.
0%
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Most audience complaints centered on the show's extreme vulgarity and lazy writing. However, some anti-woke viewers pointed out that a few storylines, such as a Season 3 episode parodying the NRA, felt slightly left-leaning. Overall, most of the criticism was about the show being unfunny and gross rather than pushing a specific political agenda.
22%
Creator track record context
Creators Roger Black and Waco O'Guin both have a woke score of 0/100. Their entire careers are built on making offensive, politically incorrect cartoons that actively mock modern social justice trends.
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