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Scored mixed entertainment and message on WhatSphere's content-balance model 4

Its writer/director stated on the record that "i was not pressured to tone down the relationship — if anything, we worked together to make the relationship more complex and intimate" 1. POWER UP is documented as involved through funding condition 2. LGBTQ representation is assessed as central to the story 3. Taken together, the content-balance model places it mixed entertainment and message at 22 of 100 4.

The receipts — every claim above is sourced
  1. 1
    Creator statementwriter/director: "I was not pressured to tone down the relationship — if anything, we worked together to make the relationship more complex and intimate."AfterEllen / Wikipedia (D.E.B.S. 2003 short) source ↗
  2. 2
    Advocacy orgPOWER UP involved via funding condition; evidence type confirmed_reporting.POWER UP (advocacy group) source ↗
  3. 3
    LGBTQ centralityLGBTQ centrality 5 of 5.WhatSphere content assessment
  4. 4
    Content balanceAdvocacy 22 of 100, tier mixed entertainment and message.WhatSphere content-balance model, score_version 1

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Primary audienceYoung WomenYoung Women98
Young MaleYoung FemaleMature MaleMature Female
Primary audienceYoung Women
Targeted

Quadrant Scores

Young Men
37
Young Women
98
Older Men
2
Older Women
63
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Audience Representation

Racial audience withheld

Only 65% of the cast has a researched race, so these scores stay blank.

Why this is blank

A partial classification would pull origin-race scores toward the researched slice and away from the cast as it is. The nine audience scores are withheld instead of shown as zero. Zero would mean no audience, which is not what a thin cast record says.

LGBTQ+
83

Faithfulness

Faithfulness not applicable

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Why this is blank

An original has no source text to compare. The score is left blank rather than shown as zero.

Advocacy

Advocacy22
Mixed

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Synopsis

The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.

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Cast & Crew

Hillary Schwartz (director) · Sholto J. Roeg (director)