Had the new Hulu comedy Woke — starring Lamorne Morris as a Black cartoonist in San Francisco who undergoes a racial awakening after a traumatic encounter with the police — debuted last year, it could’ve been an instantly forgettable also-ran among the issues-driven sitcoms of Peak TV.
But debuting after the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard Brooks, and the resulting resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, 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, that we have no idea why a 30-something Black man who was presumably alive and conscious.
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