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- 2020
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- 2020
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Summary San Francisco cartoonist Keef (Lamorne Morris) is close to making it into the "big time" when something happens that challenges his previous point-of-view in this comedy inspired by the personal experiences of writer/executive producer (and fellow cartoonist) Keith Knight.
- 2020
- TV-MA
- HULU
- 2020
- TV-MA
- HULU
Woke
Season 1 Premiere: Sep 9, 2020
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4.8
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Summary San Francisco cartoonist Keef (Lamorne Morris) is close to making it into the "big time" when something happens that challenges his previous point-of-view in this comedy inspired by the personal experiences of writer/executive producer (and fellow cartoonist) Keith Knight.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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47% Positive
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53% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
61
47% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
53% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
0% Negative
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In a dreary age in which we're battered on one side by authentic police mayhem and on the other by puerile PC paladins, Hulu's new comedy series Woke is little short of a miracle. It manages to carefully and very funnily thread a needle through a political and social straitjacket.
Smart, likable, a little weird, hard to pin down. A largely successful mix of genres and themes — some romance, some wacky cohabitation comedy and some social satire, regarding identity, authenticity, justice, performative rage and real exhaustion — “Woke” does sometimes go just where you might expect, but more often does not.
Just in the first episode, the guest voices all stole the show, but there was definitely enough going on with Keef, Clovis and even Gunther to keep us watching. We just hope that as Keef gets more “woke,” his character becomes more well-rounded.
There's a lot about "Woke" that works because of the people in it, and the man who makes it, and not entirely due its execution, which begins a lot of conversations but doesn't pause or conclude them in ways that give the premise of the series its meaning.
Woke very much has a message about the complications of being black in a place that can be fundamentally hostile to blackness itself. Sometimes, it gets that message across in clever ways, while at others it seems as confused or out of step as Keef is.
There isn’t anything particularly refreshing about Knight and fellow creator Marshall Todd’s tepid comedy.
While the eight-episode Hulu series “Woke” satirizes the definitions of Blackness and artistic integrity, its inert discussions lead to few laughs.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 28 User Ratings
4.8
32% Positive
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 28 User Ratings
4.8
32% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
18% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
50% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Cloud Nine Productions
- Olive Bridge Entertainment
- Sony Pictures Television
Initial Release Date: Sep 9, 2020
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards
Black Reel Awards for Television
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Leo Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Action on Film International Film Festival, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
