Awake not Woke!

Some woke casting

Jon Hamm does a great job and the show is entertaining. Thad said, a few women have roles in his criminal activities that I'd say are a bit of a stretch. The woman running the pawn shop and the maid are at times a bit too girl bossy. Otherwise, an enjoyable show.

The person this is based on's ex wife was spanish so that is accurate and not a woke element. Also the best friend in the story was kept mostly secretive to who he really was so having a black character is entirely possible. He's barely in it anyway and race is never brought up. There is the pastor and his wife who are mixed race white male and black female but I couldn't find if this is accurate or not. It could be a woke moment but I can't say for sure, and again race is never mentioned. The acting is good and this seems to be very accurate to the real story. Every time something would happen and I was sure there was no way it could be true and sure enough it turned out to be true. It's surprising how someone this smart could be so stupid at the same time. I feel like the movie drags a bit especially in the second half and could of been a bit shorter. Overall not a bad movie but it's not really what I was expecting. A decent watch and at least it doesn't' seem to make a lot of it like so many true story movies do now.

Even the Japanese have been infected; impressive and boring.

Saw a few episodes, my youngest is still a pokemon fan. I seem to remember pokemon is typical Japanese short-hand for pocket monster, but let's not. Visually very impressive, very short and incredibly bland episodes. Woke notch because of wonderful black girl, stupid white man. Heck, took a minute to check, Ai, who voices black girl, is mixed-race, because representation thingy is important, but Okuno, who voices white guy, well, check the pictures below, Japanese good ol boy (bloke was in Shogun!), representation out the window as usual. It seems even more intentional as one considers that hafus are pretty rare and (/ because) not all well-accepted in Japan, especially when the non-Japanese parent is not Asian or white either. Well, Ai's father is apparently Lebanese, which is black enough (ie, rest of the world to the Japanese), and well, black hafus are rare even in fiction.

A woman gets turned down for an Air bnb rental and they immediately blame racism because her last name is middle eastern then say the white guy gets accepted because of white privilege. They arrive at the very large nice house on the beach and the white guy that meets them there is driving a beat-up pickup. The middle eastern girl gives him a weird look and asks if this is his house in a very condescending tone clearly because she thinks he's white trash. She then says she didn't mean anything by it, so then after introductions of the 2 white brothers he asks how she got mixed up in this family. She takes offense and calls him a p.o.s. She then starts asking him if he turned her down because of her name pretty much calling him a racist to his face. Typical hypocrisy of the woke. It's only 8 minutes and we already have fake white racist claims by the actual minority racist. I hate her smug entitled face at this point and the movie is pretty much already ruined at only 10 minutes in because of 1 racist hateful nasty character. For some inexplicable reason both the white brothers are after her even though she's a horrible miserable person. They act like the home owner is creepy and an asshole yet he hasn't actually done anything at all at this point other than have them treat him like garbage and accuse him of being a racist. So after 20 minutes of nothing but screaming 'the white guy is racist' the whole time I'm done with this trash. Recommend avoiding this at all costs.