A Black cartoonist experiences an awakening about racism even in liberal San Francisco in "Woke," a Hulu series that pairs eccentric humor and characters with its timely real-world echoes. Based on the work of cartoonist Keith Knight, the show develops a bit slowly but deftly straddles the line between weightier matters and mining its sillier side.
Five years after the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag triggered controversy, the group behind the awards has made inclusion a requirement to be considered to win them.
Lupita Nyong'o wrote a touching tribute to her "Black Panther" co-star Chadwick Boseman, saying the actor's death from colon cancer "doesn't make sense."
"The Boys" quickly became Amazon's signature series, and the second season of this beyond-dark show outdoes the first -- offering a searing take on modern-day America that might be TV's most subversive program, camouflaged in superhero garb.
Eventually somebody's going to make a really good TV series about a manned space mission, but "Away" isn't it. Like Hulu's "The First" and National Geographic's "Mars," this handsome Netflix drama about a crew traveling to Mars -- and those left behind -- wants to be stirring and mostly settles for dull, mostly proving that in space, no one can hear you snore.
