Started September 9, 2016 · Based on 1 season, 8 episodes · TV-MA · 52 min
Quarry is a 2016 Cinemax crime drama about Mac Conway, a Vietnam veteran who returns to Memphis in 1972 and gets pulled into contract killing and riverfront corruption while battling trauma and rejection. Based on Max Allan Collins novels, it delivers gritty neo-noir with heavy 1970s period detail, moral gray areas, and personal struggle at its core. No audience-visible identity politics, activist dialogue, or modern social-justice framing appears in the story, marketing, or reception.
Community feedback
Was our 16% Woke rating accurate?
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Quarry.
Woke representation / casting
Mixed-race supporting characters like the black Marine friend fit the 1972 Memphis and Vietnam vet story naturally with no visible forced emphasis or signaling.
10%
Woke political dialogue
Period-accurate anti-war protests and public shaming of veterans appear as 1970s historical flavor only; no modern activist speeches or lectures.
12%
Identity-driven story themes
Story stays on one man’s personal trauma, moral choices, and crime life with almost no group-identity focus beyond era background.
5%
Western institutional / cultural critique
Shows government letting down veterans and local corruption as story problems; kept historical and individual rather than reframed as current systemic or identity issues.
18%
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant; straight adaptation of existing novels with no ideological updates to source material.
0%
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
No backlash, race-swap complaints, or agenda accusations found in any coverage or online reaction.
0%
Creator track record context
Director and co-creators have mainstream drama and action credits with no activist history; novelist Max Allan Collins is a traditional pulp writer who describes mild left-leaning views but avoids identity politics in his work; other producers show standard industry profiles.
12%
Production
TV Show · 2022
Navy SEAL Commander James Reece turns to vengeance as he investigates the mysterious forces behind the murder of his entire platoon.
TV Show · 2022
Dan Chase absconded from the CIA decades ago and now lives off the grid. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future…
TV Show · 2023
Faced with ruthless foes with a violent thirst, two young boxers band together — risking life and limb to bring justice and protect their loved ones.
TV Show · 2022
With the aid of unexpected friends, a gifted but introverted student confronts bullies and violent foes — unaware of how dangerous his world will become.
TV Show · 2016
Even though two brothers are completely separated from each other after the imprisoning of their father and the kidnapping of their twin brother, they meet by coincidence years…
TV Show · 2021
Takemichi Hanagaki is a freelancer that’s reached the absolute pits of despair in his life. He finds out that the only girlfriend he ever had, in middle school, Hinata Tachibana…
TV Show · 2019
In this gritty and sometimes bloody tale, sixteen year-old Wayne sets out on a dirt bike with his new crush Del to take back the 1978 Pontiac Trans Am that was stolen from his…
TV Show · 2019
An antiquities expert teams up with an art thief to catch a terrorist who funds his attacks using stolen artifacts.
