Travelers has a woke score of 15/100, which means it is not especially woke compared with higher-scoring titles. Travelers is a 2016-2018 Canadian sci-fi series created by Brad Wright. In it, operatives from a collapsing future send their consciousnesses back into 21st-century people who are about to die. These "travelers" form teams that carry out secret missions ordered by a future AI to stop disasters and save humanity. The show centers on ethical rules, personal struggles with host lives, team loyalty, and moral trade-offs rather than identity politics or activist messaging.

Is there DEI in Travelers?

The biggest factors in our score are Representation / casting choices, Institutional / cultural critique, Identity-driven story themes. Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.

TV Show review

Travelers

Woke Score

15/ 100

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Release Date: October 17, 2016
Age Rating: TV-MA
Runtime: 45 min

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United States · Last checked 5/13/2026

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Factors & Ratings

These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Travelers.

Representation / casting choices

Hosts picked for story logic (disabled host learning independence, single-mom custody battles, addict recovery); team mixes genders and ages naturally for a modern urban Canadian setting without quotas, swaps, or signaling. Minor later LGBTQ elements stay peripheral.

15 / 100

Political / ideological dialogue

Missions and protocols create ethical debates about interference, sacrifice, and following orders, but these stay sci-fi and personal with no modern political speeches or identity rhetoric.

5 / 100

Identity-driven story themes

Personal stories explore what it means to be human, relationships, and overcoming host challenges like addiction or disability effects; these arise from the premise and character situations rather than activist framing.

10 / 100

Institutional / cultural critique

The future AI “Director” enforces rigid protocols, sparking tension between rules and human judgment or emotion; this is classic sci-fi obedience-versus-freedom conflict, not commentary on current institutions, patriarchy, capitalism, or Western norms.

Travelers

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