The Terminal List: Producer says critics hate it because there’s not enough “woke stuff shoved into it”

The Terminal List, starring Chris Pratt, became a big hit for Prime Video during the summer, with over 1.6 billion minutes viewed in its first seven days. Despite audiences responding to the project, critics weren’t as kind to The Terminal List, gracing it with a 34% rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes compared to its more robust audience score of 94% on the site. What’s the reason for this? Well, producer Jack Carr, who also wrote the novel on which it is based, says he believes the series has been critically attacked for not having enough “woke stuff shoved into it.”

During a recent chat with Fox News, Jack Carr said that the show doesn’t have a political agenda and is neither woke nor anti-woke. He believes, in the end, that critics weren’t pleased because the series doesn’t “promote” various agendas that they want the show to push:

“We don’t mention right, left, conservative, liberal, none of those things are even mentioned. The Daily Beast, in particular, their review was quite mean. But they see an American flag and they get upset. Or they see someone who is competent with weapons and has a certain mindset and holds those in power accountable for their actions and they just kind of lose it a little bit. We didn’t make it for critics. What’s important to me and to Chris Pratt was that we made something that would speak to those members of the military who went down range over the last 20 years so they could sit down and say, ‘These guys put in the work and made a show that speaks to me.’”

It’s also clear that Chris Pratt saw the negative reception and wanted to celebrate its success despite what the critics had to say. The actor shared a Daily Mail article with a headline that read, “The new Yellowstone: Chris Pratt’s new Navy thriller The Terminal List defies woke critics’ scathing reviews to shoot up ratings chart with 1.6 billion minutes of stream.” He even took to his Instagram story to troll the critics more with an image of Dr. Evil from Austin Powers that reads “one point six billion streams.”

Just playing devil’s advocate here but is it possible critics didn’t like it because they didn’t think it was very good (our review was mixed-to-positive)? Perhaps it just wasn’t up to their standards. I can’t comment because I haven’t checked out The Terminal List yet, but I would love to hear some of your opinions on the matter. Do YOU think critics didn’t like it because it wasn’t woke enough, or was it just not very good?