Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man star Hudson Thames left many eyebrows raised last week after his comments about fearing the Disney Plus series would be âannoying and woke.â During a subsequent Reddit AMA, series creator Jeff Trammell was quick to start doing damage control, and he insisted that Thames had misspoken. But even in its most charitable interpretation, Thamesâ statement was pretty odd considering how being annoying and constantly vigilant about injustice are kind of Spider-Manâs whole schtick.
We may never know exactly what Thames meant or whether his feelings could have been expressed more thoughtfully. But whatâs funny about the entire situation is how Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is, in fact, one of those âwokeâ shows youâre always hearing culturally conservative types harp on about. It celebrates multiculturalism by treating diversity as a simple fact of the world Peter Parker exists in. And the seriesâs âwokenessâ is honestly one of the best things about it.
Thereâs a lot of the Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man series that rings familiar if youâve spent time reading Marvelâs comics or watched any of the studioâs …
