Awake not Woke!

Sinbad is the baby girl Esme here, even though Sinbad is a male character.

Group of white friends has the token out of place DEI black female. There are environmentalist comments scattered throughout the dialogue. The acting is embarrassingly bad. The story and dialogue are so bad I hope it was written by A.I. so a writer doesn't have to take credit for this garbage. Speaking of A.I. this is another movie that heavily used A.I. generated images for all the shark scenes and as expected it looks terrible. The characters are unlikable and stupid. The ridiculous slow motion shots. This is another movie that's so bad it will probably end up on Rifftrax at some point.

While there is nothing woke in this it is a terrible movie. It looks like a 90's made for sci-fi channel no budget movie. The CG is terrible but even worse the extensive green screen backgrounds. They are so bad there are visible lines around the actors where they were cut and pasted into scenes. Nothing is blended together and the actors look inserted or pasted into the scene. Sometimes actors seem to 'float' in the scene and have no substance. The killer whale is inconsistent and changes size constantly sometimes within the same scene. It's so bad and distracting it renders it unwatchable for anything other than to laugh at and make fun of.

It's hard to rate this one.

I avoided this one because it looked like it was going to be typical Hollywood bias about the 1960's racial issues. That's not far off, but there's more to it. Michael Franzese, is a YouTuber, ex-mob-boss who reviews movies and television for accuracy to the Mafia culture. He rated this series as accurate, so I gave it a chance. A woke approach would be "black good/ white bad." In this series, they're all bad. I don't think there's a good guy in the show. There are corrupt cops, rapist blacks, junkies of every ethnicity. At one point, George Wallace was on the TV giving his "segregation now" speech. He was a Democrat governor and presidential candidate. Malcolm X is portrayed as a violent idealist who is hostile to Christianity. Congressman Powell is portrayed as a self serving, philandering, corrupt politician. A woke agenda would've portrayed him as a civil rights hero. There's no "black hero" attitude in this series. If anything, they portray black culture in a very negative way. I'm only 4 episodes in, so things may change. TV series tend to do that. Judge this one for yourself. I don't find it particularly entertaining or woke. I do find it to be realistic.