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Positive:
9
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Sep 5, 2020
Season 1 Review:
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.
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Sep 9, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Charming. This can be credited in large part to Mr. Morris, who plays Keef with equal parts self-awareness and bemusement, but also to the balance “Woke” strikes between politics and the pure comedy of human interaction. Or collision. ... The music is remarkably good. The cast is even better.
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Sep 9, 2020
Season 1 Review:
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.
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Sep 2, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Keef's inner struggles as a Black artist versus an artist who happens to be Black is an unapologetically funny and honest through line that also gives the show the authenticity it needs. Although San Francisco as a setting doesn't factor in as the uncredited character that it should, Stanley Clarke's thoughtful score deliciously folds in a number of Black musical influences and vibes.
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Sep 2, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Woke spends its 8-episode season nudging Keef toward his epiphany, all the while making necessary but not particularly interesting discoveries about the variety of micro- and macro-aggressions Black people face every day. ... The best scenes in Woke are between Keef and his roommates.
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Sep 10, 2020
ColliderSep 11, 2020
Season 1 Review:
While I can’t fault the performances, the discontinuity and lack of purposeful writing are where the series failed for me. Initially having high hopes for Woke, I walked away not quite knowing who the intended audience was. And while the subject matter grabbed my attention, I had to wait until the final culmination for it to pay off.
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Sep 2, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The show is at odds with itself, drawing a mordantly funny vision of a person sent into disarray by his newly surfaced awareness of American racism and seeding it with broad and somewhat lazy sight gags. A version of “Woke” with fewer distractions — limiting or perhaps fine-tuning the comic device, and keeping its eye more closely on Morris’s performance — would be one that got its point across, and that entertained, far more effectively.
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Sep 9, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The show’s efforts to be comic tends to undermine Keef’s righteous fury. Instead of leaning into moments where the audience might sympathize with Keef’s rage, Woke spins out his anger into something that is laughed at. Considering the poignancy of Keef’s reckoning, it’s an uncomfortable distancing—and the result is not reliably funny, either.
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Sep 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Woke doesn’t just feel redundant, but ranklingly under-thought. It’s not only that Woke is so politically tepid, although it’s that, too. It’s that the show cares so little to flesh out its protagonist, Keef Knight. ... There’s no reason why the results have to be so bland.
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