Awake not Woke!

It's been a while since I watched the first one but I don't remember it having so many corny cheesy scenes in it. The FX are still great and the story is ok as a follow up but this one just seems less fun somehow. I don't remember the first one having so much forced humor and pop culture references though I could be wrong. Also the woke is pushed significantly into this one as well. Norway is a vast majority white country yet there is DEI minorities everywhere here including crowd and background character shots. Of the six core main actors in the group there is 1 white male, 1 darker male that I couldn't find anything on, 3 white females. and 1 Iranian female. The feminist movement is very prominent here. All men are relegated to just standing around or making jokes until a much smarter woman tells them to do something. Even the white Prime Minister and his general are ineffectual idiots. The ending has the females suddenly turn into military grade arms experts firing grenade launchers with precision and rapid reloading without any training whatsoever. If you liked the first one this is worth a one time watch if you can take the heavy forced in feminism and DEI.

The opening 5 minutes is pure cringe. I initially thought it was set in modern day and just really bad with the acting, music and terrible humor. Then I thought I was wrong and it was set in the 90's sometime and it was meant to be like that. However 5 minutes later a character pulls out a smart phone and starts texting. This sets the tone for this idiotic mess. The longer it goes the worse it gets. This is slapstick pure cringe comedy that's bordering on parody. Nothing is funny and every painful joke goes on for way to long. Also this should be advertised as Sci-Fi as well as Action-Comedy and I'm not sure why it's not. The acting is ok but that's about it. The music it terrible and out of place. The fight scenes are badly shot and they use the low frame rate stutter motion effect that looks awful. I only made it to 30 minutes and I just couldn't take any more. At that point the only woke I saw was some DEI and a black father says his son is white.

Great series

Woke-free and generally a great series. Gets a bit shaky in the 3rd season but the first 2 are top tier.

Some major plot holes: Even though Marco removed his and Raymond's implants from the back, both of them were still able to get controlled! If there are 2 implants, what's even the point of the back one? Was Raymond always being controlled, or did he want all of it? Because if he were controlled, he wouldn't keep saying sorry while unaliving the senator, or he wouldn't say that he was the enemy when he met with Marco during the voting.