Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticOn Hulu’s “Woke,” cartoonist Keef Knight (Lamorne Morris, recently of “New Girl”) sees his world shaken into surreality by an experience that’s sadly common.
After a run-in with violent, racist police officers who stop short of taking his life but manhandle and humiliate him in the process, Keef begins to hear the accoutrements of his life — pens, photos of himself, liquor bottles — speaking to him in frank and often harsh tones.
It’s an awakening to the secret language of the world that, in moments, operates powerfully on the level of metaphor. Keef finally gets it — he’s alert in a way he hadn’t been before.Unfortunately, more often the metaphor falls flat.
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