TV Show review
April 1, 2016 · TV-MA
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
The Ranch is a multi-camera sitcom that follows former semi-pro football player Colt Bennett as he returns to his family's struggling ranch in rural Colorado. He works with his gruff father Beau and brother Rooster while dealing with money problems, family fights, and personal regrets across four seasons. The show has no visible woke elements like identity politics, forced diversity casting, activist lectures, or modern social-justice messaging; it instead shows traditional rural family life and conservative-leaning character views in a plain, unapologetic style.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for The Ranch.
Woke representation / casting
All-white cast fits a realistic rural Colorado ranch family perfectly with no forced diversity, swaps, or signaling visible to viewers.
Woke political dialogue
Characters express everyday conservative views (government skepticism, traditional family priorities) as normal personality traits, never as activist lectures or modern identity framing.
Identity-driven story themes
Core story stays on family loyalty, economic survival, and personal redemption with zero focus on race, gender identity, sexuality, or social-justice arcs.
Western institutional / cultural critique
Economic threats from big agribusiness appear as practical ranch problems, not reframed as systemic anti-capitalist or patriarchal messaging.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
No meaningful woke backlash or “too woke” claims; only unrelated actor scandal dominated headlines.
Creator track record context
No relevant prior activist or identity-driven work cited for any key creators or writers.
Production
