Season Analysis

The Simpsons

Season 35 Analysis

Season Woke Score

out of 10

Season Overview

No specific overview for this season.

Season Review

Season 35 of 'The Simpsons' heavily shifts its focus to corporate critique and class conflict, positioning itself as a strong proponent of the worker versus the billionaire elite. The primary narratives center on systemic economic oppression, with episodes dedicated to Marge organizing a union in a ghost kitchen against a wealthy CEO and Homer fighting excessive tipping culture. This theme replaces character-driven conflict with a political framing where 'the rich' are the villains, predominantly white males like Mr. Burns and the Silicon Valley-style CEO being depicted as fundamentally exploitative. The season continues the trend of presenting Marge and Lisa as the family's intellectual, moral, and active problem-solvers, with Homer consistently cast as either the bumbling idiot, a corruptible official, or a man whose primary motivation is food and incompetence. While avoiding direct, high-level engagement with intersectional race theory or gender ideology (LGBTQ+), the show elevates a 'Girl Boss' dynamic and frames economic issues through a lens of systemic power imbalance, which pushes the overall score toward the midpoint of the spectrum.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics6/10

The narrative frequently frames the plot around systemic oppression, particularly in the economic realm. Episodes are centered on the inherent corruption and villainy of billionaire CEOs and the wealthy elite, who are often depicted as white males like Mr. Burns or the Finn Bon Idée character. The focus is on the labor/capital divide and the 'wage gap' rather than race or immutable characteristics, but the plot exists primarily to lecture on the oppression of the working class by the 'systemic' rich.

Oikophobia4/10

Critique is directed almost exclusively at modern American corporate practices, such as the 'fake it until you make it' Silicon Valley culture, ghost kitchens, and tipping culture run amok. The show satirizes current economic institutions and capitalist excesses. This is a critique of contemporary societal issues rather than fundamental hostility toward Western civilization, heritage, or ancestors. The family's trip to Scotland provides a humorous but not deconstructive view of another culture.

Feminism7/10

Gender dynamics are strongly tilted toward the 'Girl Boss' trope. Marge takes the lead as the moral, competent hero who organizes a union, stands up to corporate power, and is consistently the one who rescues her son from a modern threat (NFTs). Homer is frequently emasculated, shown as a bumbling idiot, easily corrupted, or a source of the family's problems (cheating, scapegoating). Lisa serves as the sharp-witted detective and intellectual lead in multiple episodes.

LGBTQ+2/10

The season does not dedicate plot lines to centering alternative sexualities, promoting gender ideology, or directly deconstructing the nuclear family as a source of oppression. The Simpson family remains the central, if dysfunctional, unit. Sexuality remains a private topic not used as the primary identifier or source of political lecturing within the season's main conflicts.

Anti-Theism3/10

The series maintains its long-standing secular-satirical tone, but there are no standout episodes where traditional religion, specifically Christianity, is targeted as the root of evil, nor are religious characters specifically framed as bigoted villains. The moral issues presented are economic (greed, exploitation, cheating) and family-based, reflecting moral realism rather than transcendent morality, but not a 10/10 level of anti-theism.