Woke

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Season 1
  • Network: HULU
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 9, 2020
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
4.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 16
  3. Negative: 8 out of 16
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  1. RidingHood
    Sep 15, 2020
    1
    Disastrously bad acting ruins a promising idea. The main character in particular has been portrayed in a terribly campy fashion, and every joke is stretched out to its unfunny limit.
  2. Jacks320
    Sep 11, 2020
    6
    This show is decent not horrible, some funny moments, overall a decent show.
  3. Dushell
    Sep 20, 2020
    10
    Loved it. Satirical approach to a moment or moments that occur in the life of every black man, bar none. If hulu can bring a show like Pen15 back for season 2, this should should be green lit for 10 more.
  4. DAL1960
    Sep 18, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I've been through four episodes of "Woke" and I have to say it's really a hard show to get through. The show has potential, but the writing and direction let it down. Keith Morris, who created this show, needs to turn this show over to real writers. It's not funny. Keef, the main character, is an artist who is about to break out, but he blows it when he has a meltdown at an important event. Ok...that's a good point where the Keef can make a comeback and the audience can witness his redemption. But nooo..the show goes into different direction, sort of.

    I really want this series to work, but the writers and producers need to get together and figure out the characters. I like Lamorne Morris as Keef. Morris plays him to be a nice, but confused Black man. His friends are just too generic. You have the black friend, who tries to be a playa with no game and no money is too stereotypical. I think the character has to be about something. The white friend started to be typical San Francisco stoner kid, who as the show goes on, is trying to be Keef's conscience. I was put off by that because once again media is trying to be the hero. What they should stay with is the objects that talk to Keef. A pen, voiced by JB Smoove and garbage can, voiced by Cedric The Entertainer. They were funny and they should be the one giving Keef some life lessons.
    Also the women on this show are just used as props. You have the Black journalist who calls Keef out, is there in spurts. I need to see her more. As for the white woman, who sleeps with him. I liked her, but it seems to be there for window dressing. I think this is the part where they think their "Woke". Interracial relationship on TV..ok that's progress. But there's no chemistry. I think she needed to be less beautiful. I din't think in real, a nerdy brother Keef could pull the gorgeous, blonde artist. I don't see it. There's a story there, but its told haphazardly. They meet at a party...she rebuffs him. The next show..they are in bed together. Say what? How did that happen? Honestly...I think Hulu aired this to ease their guilt for canceling "High Fidelity". Zoe Kravitz called them out for what she felt that Hulu didn't like Black people and thus decided to add this show to its programming. "High Fidelity was WAY better than "Woke" and far more hip. "Woke" isn't quite woke. It needs more emotional punch and be more pervasive. The producers and Keith Knight need to wake up or it will suffer the fate as "high Fidelity".    … Expand

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#68 Most Shared TV Season of 2020

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Metascore
61

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. CNN
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Sep 14, 2020
    75
    The show develops a bit slowly but deftly straddles the line between weightier matters and mining its sillier side.
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  2. Collider
    Reviewed by: Kay B
    Sep 11, 2020
    50
    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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  3. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Sep 10, 2020
    60
    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.
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