Overview

• Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson issued an official statement via Entertainment Weekly denouncing Boots as “woke garbage” and invoking a push to restore a “warrior ethos” under President Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth, asserting standards are “elite, uniform, and sex neutral.”
• The statement was widely republished by major outlets, a wave of coverage that significantly amplified attention to the series.
• Boots premiered October 9 and remains a streaming hit, with Rotten Tomatoes scores reported at about 93% from critics and around 90% from audiences and placement at or near the top of Netflix’s rankings.
• The show adapts Greg Cope White’s memoir to follow a closeted recruit in the 1990s U.S. Marine Corps during the era when being gay in the military was still illegal.
• Industry reports note interest from the cast and creators in continuing the story, but Netflix has not announced a renewal.