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Kevin review – Aubrey Plaza’s new cat comedy is so irretrievably bad it must never be allowed to happen again

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Kevin review – Aubrey Plaza’s new cat comedy is so irretrievably bad it must never be allowed to happen again
the Guardian
Kevin review – Aubrey Plaza’s new cat comedy is so irretrievably bad it must never be allowed to happen again
The team behind this adult animation is unbelievably stellar – Jason Schwartzman, John Waters, Whoopi Goldberg, Amy Sedaris … Sadly, it’s so awful it’s hard to even express its direness

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Antknee2099 5 days ago +1703
Good gods, that is a scathing review.
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ughyoujag 5 days ago +881
Because if you like what’s on the bottom, you are insane!” This is not a joke. This is a handful of words in a raincoat. The Vincent Adultman of jokes
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TheLowlyPheasant 4 days ago +441
My favorite line: "There is the suspicion that something has gone very, very wrong in the writers’ room. Perhaps there weren’t enough biscuits. Perhaps the show was written by biscuits."
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ughyoujag 4 days ago +130
Extremely British, which I fully appreciate
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Then-Importance-3808 4 days ago +72
The British handle of sarcasm is so beyond the rest of us, they are an inspiration Edit: f*** sakes why do I always sound like a bot its getting ridiculous
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No_Stand8812 4 days ago +83
John Oliver once said the British have a black belt in passive aggressiveness when he did an interview for a British paper and the headline was something like “how failed British comedian makes American laugh” or something like that. Just brilliant.
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Hot_Injury7719 4 days ago +6
“Oh it appears my shoes are untied by British standards!”
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shwiftfoot-prime 5 days ago +98
This line is better than anything on that show.
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ughyoujag 5 days ago +28
As a fan of the show, I’ll take that as high praise, even if you don’t mean it as that high
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jsamuraij 4 days ago +22
You're a fan of "Kevin?"
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elreyadr0k 5 days ago +45
You were not kidding!
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Dickduck21 5 days ago +115
It's very entertaining in its own right. Kind of captures how I feel about a lot of animation projects over the last few years.
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No_Use_9652 5 days ago +96
“God, it’s all so depressing. Why does the sad horse keep trying to show everyone her bum?” Without having seen the show I’m willing to bet that line made me laugh harder than anything in the series would have.
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Wazula23 5 days ago +34
This another Velma situation?
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bentbabe 4 days ago +74
No matter how bad this show is, I doubt it's another Velma situation. Even if it is, somehow,  a "worse" show.  I can forgive a bad show or whatever. Velma, however, not only did itself a disservice. It attached itself irreversibly to a beloved franchise in the process and made decisions that specifically were done to spite Scooby Doo (ex. No Scooby, the personalities, etc)
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Phillip_Spidermen 4 days ago +58
Velma was a failed attempt to recreate Harley Quinn's success. It wasn't funny enough to win over audiences, but adapting old IP to adult humor isn't anything unique. Cartoon Network basically built Adult Swim by bastardizing Hannah Barbera cartoons. Including [Scooby Doo.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3pS99es8-s)
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bentbabe 4 days ago +34
I don't mind adapting old IPs for adult humor or more serious takes. Velma wasn't that though. It was an edgy show with a thin veneer of Scooby Doo.
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Phillip_Spidermen 4 days ago +26
> It was an edgy show with a thin veneer of [known IP] That's like the CW's bread and butter.
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ask_me_about_my_band 4 days ago +7
Yeah. It would be like having a Garfield movie just about John.
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Wazootyman13 4 days ago +4
A live action Garfield Minus Garfield???
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TrulyAnCat 4 days ago +3
Amazing suggestion thanks
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aboxofchox 4 days ago +4
Have ya seen second best hospital in the whole galaxy? I enjoyed that one!!
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dancingbriefcase 5 days ago +47
The Guardian does that a lot, to be honest.
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YakSlothLemon 4 days ago +8
I remember when Peter Bradshaw headed his review of the second avatar movie “Waterboarded by Turquoise Cement.”
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MostlyBored11 5 days ago +37
Idk if I've ever seen one this brutal.... Kinda makes me want to watch the first episode to see if it's actually that bad lol
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smilingfreak 5 days ago +23
You should look up Charlie Brookers reviews he used tocdo for the guardian. He's the master of the scathing review.
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The_Lapsed_Pacifist 4 days ago +5
He cut his teeth writing video game reviews for PC Zone. They were just fantastic, I’ve been a little surprised by his career trajectory but he’s earned it. His brand of bitter sarcasm is right up my alley.
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brayshizzle 5 days ago +19
The Guardian have been really strange lately. Maybe it happened before but I feel like they will some unnecessarily negative reviews just for the sake of it lately.
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waitingtodiesoon 4 days ago +26
The Guardian tended to always have some bad reviewers. For the book section, some guy reviewed Terry Pratchett's works and said he never even read his works, but Pratchett was mediocre anyway. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/aug/31/terry-pratchett-is-not-a-literary-genius For the TV section, a reviewer had only seen 2 episodes of Sense 8 Season 1 and none of S2 or the special before watching the series finale complaining it was confusing and not feeling feeling attached to the characters. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jun/09/sense8-series-finale-review-netflix-wachowskis
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biskutgoreng 4 days ago +3
You may watch all of Sense8 and still be confused tbh
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doesntmatterhadtacos 5 days ago +20
It’s because everything needs to be generating views and therefore profit, and the best way to do that is by manufacturing enough rage by slowly becoming an engagement machine, less actual art or news.
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Garmose 4 days ago +20
It's not lately. When I look up reviews for movies and TV shows before watching them I often skip The Guardian because the reviews are unnecessarily volatile or obscenely positive. And they'll often take the contrarion stance. Is the film universally praised by other critics? The Guardian is about to burn it down. Is it hated? The Guardian thinks it's a misunderstood, little gem that deserves audience nourishment. I'm not saying that's the case with this show, it's just not surprising to see them write something so dramatic. This is the same publication that published an op ed in the movie section by someone who openly refused to watch *There Will Be Blood* because every boyfriend she had ever had loved the film. It was a mind bogglingly pointless and inflammatory piece.
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Lil_Artemis_92 5 days ago +771
I saw the title, then I read the review, and all I could think about was Al Pacino in *Jack and Jill*, saying, “Burn this. This must never be seen again.”
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Alternative-Maybe747 5 days ago +157
He said it in it or about it?
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ViciousPrism 5 days ago +143
Yes. (But in sincerity, it's a line from the film. Immediately after the[ Dunkaccino bit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu8q3fcKNMk), which to me is the highlight of the film.)
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MikeMontrealer 5 days ago +33
One of my last good memories of Twitter before it got corrupted was the daily Dunkaccino remixes for months
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Lil_Artemis_92 5 days ago +63
In *Jack and Jill*, Pacino plays himself, and he does a commercial for Dunkin’ Donuts. At the end of the movie, he’s watching it with Jack, played by Adam Sandler, when he says the line. *J&J* is considered one of the worst films of all time, though, so a lot of people wonder if maybe he was actually talking about the film itself.
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Crow_Whisperer 5 days ago +32
Didn't Sandler make this movie specifically to help Katie Holmes leave Tom Cruise?
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workfuntimecoolcool 5 days ago +39
There's circumstantial evidence I've seen floating around the evidence to support the idea she was cast for that purpose, but there doesn't really seem to be anything I would consider hard proof. People on the Internet have been really parading it the past couple of years as truth for whatever reason.
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StevenIndieSparkle 5 days ago +43
I'm reminded of Werner Herzog's reaction to hearing a recording of a man being mauled by a bear.
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nancybyersharrington 5 days ago +23
Blockbuster took a bit longer to die in my country so I worked at one of the few left when Jack and Jill came out, and the trailer would play on the automatic “new films” reel we had to keep on. Based on that alone, I can confirm every trace of it should’ve been burned
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James_Parnell 5 days ago +13
Only movie I’ve ever walked out of, just garbage the entire time
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jb_nelson_ 5 days ago +15
Have you seen Will Ferrell and John C Reiley’s Holmes and Watson? That’s up there too
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James_Parnell 4 days ago +7
I had almost forgotten that one :(
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Morningfluid 5 days ago +9
The Dunkaccino scene is amazing though, even if it's the only good thing about that movie. 
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LysolDoritos 5 days ago +336
Why are all these terrible animated shows have the exact same animation style. Is it one studio pumping these out?
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nowaunderatedwaifngl 4 days ago +47
Western adult animation has this weird complex where they seem to think being ugly is some kind of "see, this will show everyone that this ain't your *grandpa's* cartoons" statement. They are intensely embarrassed about being seen as for kids and looking repulsive is their security blanket.
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shookney 3 days ago +6
Oh gosh you legit just encapsulated why I rarely ever watched Western adult animation in the last several years or so.
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Weird_donut 5 days ago +240
Two, mostly. Bento Box and Titmouse. Titmouse did Kevin as well as Big Mouth. Bento Box does all the fox animated sitcoms. They are all ugly and made by washed up SNL writers
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AnglerOfAndromeda 4 days ago +100
Titmouse did scavengers reign and they did so good with it. I wish that show got more love than it did:/ interesting story and characters and the animated planet they were in was awesome!
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DouglasHundred 4 days ago +77
They also did some later Venture Brothers seasons. They're capable of good work. And yeah, I wish Scavengers Reign would get more seasons. But it was something new and unique and that just won't do. Instead lets have more reheated trash voiced by celebrities.
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drinfernodds 4 days ago +16
I think they worked on Metalocalypse as well.
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SeekingTheRoad 4 days ago +17
The quality of those later Venture Bros seasons is phenomenal. I guess you could argue they were still building off of the work that started with NoodleSoup/World Leaders.
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Weird_donut 4 days ago +23
Scavengers Reign was peak
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theseed 4 days ago +11
[Common Side Effects](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28093628) is another incredible piece of speculative fiction. It was released last year. Bit more grounded but plenty of interesting ideas, great voice cast and pretty good animation too.
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MenosElLso 4 days ago +4
Heck out Pantheon if you want some more incredible animated sci fi. Different but amazing.
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mkap26 4 days ago +13
I believe titmouse does the two critical role shows on prime, their work there seems pretty good to me
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ConnorRK_ 4 days ago +20
Titmouse does incredible work and I will not stand for the Titmouse slander in this thread. There’s a Disney cartoon series they did called Motorcity that was fantastic, the later seasons of Venture Bros they did were excellent, Crit Role is amazing, and none of the art styles of these shows are the same as each other.
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Dazzling-Pain-8603 4 days ago +9
They also do Star Trek Lower Decks!
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SquirrelGirlVA 4 days ago +7
One of my favorites! I love how none of the main four ended up together romantically. There are hints that two of them, Tendi and Rutherford, might in the far future but are actively choosing to remain friends in the here and now. But for Mariner and Boimler? Totally platonic. It's so damn refreshing.
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Dachuiri 4 days ago +27
Titmouse did the animation for Metalocalypse and that show has incredible animation. They must have lost some great animators along the way.
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Demystify0255 4 days ago +13
they are fine, they do [Legend of Vox Machina ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btf_uj2FPrE)and [The Mighty Nein](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjo4OuRH12A) on amazon and those are great and big hits.
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yokayla 4 days ago +10
It looks a lot like Final Space.
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Occasionaljedi 4 days ago +8
I looked up bento box, and they have the exact same art style on almost every show, except for one, which somehow is Hazbin Hotel, which is possibly the polar opposite art style
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sizzler_sisters 4 days ago +11
Hazbin Hotel’s animation style comes from its creator, Vivienne Medrano, who financed the initial 2019 YouTube episodes herself through Patreon and animated with freelancers. It was later picked up and refined by A24 and Bento Box, but that’s why it looks so different.
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LysolDoritos 5 days ago +30
The washed up SNL writers makes so much sense when none of the jokes ever hit
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MadeThis4MaccaOnly 4 days ago +10
I could never watch Big Mouth because the animation style was so appallingly ugly, this show appears to be much of the same c***
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welltherewasthisbear 5 days ago +782
“Kevin also has a protuberant a***, a fact that is repeated with a fervour that suggests the writers believe it to be powerful enough to merit a “long-running gag” badge. “Stop talking about your deformed a***,” slurs Kevin’s alcoholic goose friend, Chuck. “It’s not deformed,” shouts Kevin. “It’s prolapsed!” And lo, the soul begins its inexorable decline.” Ooooooffff. I was thinking the reviewer may be a bit harsh but this honestly sounds unwatchable
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puchsofhazard 4 days ago +82
I know a cat with that health problem funny enough
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Stu161 4 days ago +51
I think that makes you qualified to write for this show!
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panickedthumb 4 days ago +14
I like how you word that like the cat is just part of your friend group. As if you aren’t attached to the cat via a person who takes care of the cat. Just a friend. Now that I’m saying this I think I have seen a tumblr screenshot or something saying similar so maybe you were referencing that haha
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PixelNotPolygon 4 days ago +21
Are you an alcoholic goose?
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suntann85 4 days ago +6
r/brandnewsentence
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worksnake 4 days ago +25
It is not funny, enough or otherwise.
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puchsofhazard 4 days ago +10
True, 2 expensive surgeries didn't fix it
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Certain_Sleep2941 4 days ago +4
Happened to my friend's pig. I still remember his dad trying to poke it back in.
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Early_Particular9170 4 days ago +7
Happened to my BF’s late dog. That man can never tell me I don’t love him. I spent 30 minutes holding sugar and water - soaked paper towels to his dog’s inflamed a***, and I really didn’t like the dog very much at all.
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nondescriptun 5 days ago +341
"Perhaps there weren’t enough biscuits. Perhaps the show was written by biscuits." Oof.
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ughyoujag 5 days ago +61
I really enjoyed this review
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laurenzobeans 5 days ago +24
“Winded beanbag” was fun. Actually, the whole thing is funnier than 8/10 TV series.
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ughyoujag 5 days ago +12
I like the bit about committing to an ongoing prolapsed a*** joke
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laurenzobeans 5 days ago +8
It’s pretty magical.
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squanderedprivilege 4 days ago +6
I had it read to me by text-to-speech and it gave me a second level of enjoyment lol
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Ok_Pizza_4769 5 days ago +383
I find these types of adult cartoons so tedious to watch
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Fuunna-Sakana 4 days ago +226
This art style is ALWAYS a tell that its going to be dogshit
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FreezerBunBun 4 days ago +69
9/10 this is true. But Bob’s Burgers and Home Movies come to mind. Personally I don’t like the animation but the shows are pretty good.
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GrapefruitSlow8583 4 days ago +49
How dare you bring Home Movies into this conversation
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MissTre 4 days ago +12
I wish I could get more people to watch this cartoon. "That's what I get getting knocked up by an 8 year old." One of my favorites.
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pianotherms 4 days ago +5
The "rice is nice" song is sung often in my home.
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SaiyanPrinceAbubu 4 days ago +10
Having H Jon Benjamin will outweigh any doubts caused by artstyle
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marv_1997 4 days ago +12
I am a huge Bobs Burgers fan so maybe I’m blinded by how much I like the show in general, but I don’t think it’s animation is ugly or off putting like many other ones. I can’t watch any other adult animation because it’s just ugly, BB has a lot of pretty back drops, any time an animal is in the ep it’s cute, and the characters aren’t creepy/ugly like the other shows being mentioned
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Primary_Ad3580 4 days ago +49
The art style is always a tell that the creators thought Roger from American Dad was all comedy had to be.
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st1802015 4 days ago +21
Not realising that Roger works because it's one thread of multiple in an episode, hell in some bits even over multiple *seasons*.
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auxaperture 4 days ago +10
Exactly what came to my mind too.
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ChefKugeo 4 days ago +29
Genuinely. I enjoyed Dogs In Space because it was cute and haha dogs doing stuff in space... I avoided Housebroken because it's *gross* as hell. I don't want to watch a dog hump all over the house in cartoon form. That's boring and crude.
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bebesee 4 days ago +31
Thank you for watching “Dogs in Space”! I worked on that show and thought it was honestly great, but I was so disappointed with how Netflix neglected it.
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DoublePepper1976 4 days ago +10
The dogs are so cute! I just watched episode one, so no spoilers please, but does the show at least get a proper conclusion unlike Inside Job? And what work did you do on the show?
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bebesee 4 days ago +16
I did voice work on it! I play Chelsea, Garbage’s owner. The show unfortunately doesn’t have a proper ending, but I also don’t think it’s such a cliffhanger that you’ll be upset.
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ChefKugeo 4 days ago +4
No we're actually *all* upset still 😭. Would you be interested in answering a question? I just want to know if the team based all the dogs on their own pets. Thank you for the ride, and I still rewatch it all the time.
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arual9868 4 days ago +3
I literally love dogs in space. Captain Garbage 😭💕
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FR23Dust 4 days ago +8
Seriously. We need to move on.
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MyNameIs_Jordan 5 days ago +34
That one Andy Samberg did where he's just doing his bad Nic Cage impression for the main character was especially grating
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AndyK2131 4 days ago +19
But if you watch it and tell Andy, he’ll gulp you right on the street.
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cantsitheya 4 days ago +7
Yeah sure, but he was defs gonna do a lot anyway.
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TGrady902 5 days ago +16
I'm a pretty big Samberg fan and I hadn't even heard of this show until right now n
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late_afternoon_owl 5 days ago +16
Man, I love Digman hahahaha I really really do.
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DouchePanther 4 days ago +3
Hey!!! Digman is fantastic!
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ContestAntique7179 5 days ago +310
It's insane how many good shows get cancelled only to get replaced by complete garbage. It's as if Hollywood wants people to stop watching.
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Broken-Digital-Clock 5 days ago +118
Executives think they know best. They are often wrong.
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Mazer1991 5 days ago +39
Futurama portrayed the Execubots the best
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mjzim9022 4 days ago +18
It's good, but will it get them off of their tractors?
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indistrustofmerits 5 days ago +38
Executives who have spent their entire lives thinking about business and money somehow expected to have good taste in art
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Broken-Digital-Clock 5 days ago +28
And often get to positions of power not through skill, but through political maneuvering or knowing the right people.
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Hobo-man 4 days ago +5
That's a weird way of saying "f****** a bunch of people over"
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Broken-Digital-Clock 4 days ago +6
Pretty much. Big salaries and power attract some very good liars and sociopaths.
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GrimTiki 5 days ago +17
And this is why they want Gen Ai so bad. So the artists that keep the execs from making fools of themselves & wasting everyone’s time are removed and they can just drive every shred of good taste into the ground.
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Rolling_Pugsly 4 days ago +5
This is the conclusion I came to as well. Ten years ago we were in the middle of a nice little Hollywood renaissance, suddenly everything went south, and my theaters mostly screen video game adaptations.
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Yetimang 4 days ago +3
Not to come to the defense of the C-suite class, but it is funny that people think they aren't just giving us what we as a collective whole are watching: shitty second screen content and a lot of it.
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ew73 5 days ago +27
The other side of that is sort of a confirmation bias and a function of streaming platforms vs. old-school timeslots. Back in the day, television shows had to compete for a limited number of time s**** available on any given network. There are only so many hours in a day, and only so many networks. It created an actual hard limit on how much *stuff* you could air. Networks still made a TON of c***, but most of it didn't make it past 1 or 2 episodes / backdoor pilots before being trashed. In a streaming era, why not make a whole season 1, throw it up on the streaming platform and see what happens. If it's good, make more, if not, oh well, no real loss beyond what a canceled pilot order would be. There's almost no incentive to make *good* things, when they can make a plethora of mediocre things.
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ixid 5 days ago +18
They are like Hershey's, if they can get people used to c*** then they can sell c***. It's much easier and cheaper to make c***.
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Notagenome 5 days ago +92
The lazy animation that doesn't differentiate it from other adult cartoons was the warning sign.
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Wazula23 5 days ago +42
What are we going to end up calling this animation style? Post-Morty? CalArts on crack?
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Neckrongonekrypton 5 days ago +39
Post-Szechuan sauce Morty.
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niftystopwat 4 days ago +14
Ersatz Family Guy Gobbledygook
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LapsedVerneGagKnee 5 days ago +118
There’s a certain artistry to a creative bad review. Not one that screams or uses profanity in a dull manner, but really scathing. The kind of insults that make you realize you would have never used those terms on their own to make fun of something. The show looks like every other dime a dozen Western adult comedy. They churn these things on an assembly line to the point when something visually unique like Hazbin Hotel comes along it’s treated as the second coming of the Looney Toons.
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Rolling_Pugsly 4 days ago +6
"Backwards ran sentences until reeled the mind..."
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Phaeryx 5 days ago +94
Adult animation has reached a nadir and it's all become so derivative that I feel like I know what this show is like without having to watch a minute of it. All of the humor is supposed to come from the "shocking" things the characters say in sassy voices. The characters' faces are all bland Family Guy/Rick & Morty designs and don't look at all like artists sat down and thought about what they should look like, or what makes for a funny or interesting cartoon face. When it comes to cartoon animals, a good rule of thumb is that their faces should be somewhat pleasant to look at, and actually sort of cute, to provide a meaningful contrast for when the snarky comedians' voices come out of their mouths, because that's the schtick they always go for these days. A cartoon cat should also have a face that evokes a cat, and a dog a dog, etc, but you have to have some creativity to do that. This cat just has Morty's face, from Rick & Morty.
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ladystarkitten 5 days ago +20
If there is a silver lining, it is that I've just learned the word "nadir." And I can already see myself shoehorning that bad boy into so many conversations this week.
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FR23Dust 4 days ago +10
I used “shibboleth” in a work meeting a few weeks ago. I had to explain what I meant afterwards 😔
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excreto2000 4 days ago +4
The word itself is a shibboleth huh?
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orbjo 5 days ago +369
It depresses me to see shows hire only super rich and famous actors for their whole cast. No actor hired on this show benefits from the money or the exposure of booking it. There are actors living paycheck to paycheck who pray for these jobs, and our money just goes towards the already rich’s fourth homes. 
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RedHeadedSicilian52 5 days ago +25
Kinda like animated shows/movies that hire big celebrities instead of regular ol’ voice actors. Like, is this _really_ moving the viewership metrics _that_ much? Do kids want to see the Pixar sequel more because Kristin Chenoweth or whoever voices a schoolteacher with six lines?
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blorkofromflorko 5 days ago +16
Not that it's right, but a lot of times these casting decisions are viewed as a kind of stamp of approval. Like oh this must be at least ok, tom cruise wouldn't sign on for garbage (that's the thought at least. Reality may vary). Also it means you have someone famous on the promotional tour
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AbsoluteGote 5 days ago +168
You basically know it's going to be bad if it's only stars and known names. Like supergroups. There are noted exceptions, but it's a good general rule.
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Free_Investment4013 5 days ago +30
Everyone is a cameo lol
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Weekly_Ad4045 5 days ago +44
I did enjoy the Traveling Wilburys but that’s it really.
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tadrith 5 days ago +9
No love for The Highwaymen? :)
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AbsoluteGote 5 days ago +22
THE example of an exception. I still don't understand how it worked.
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DocDerry 5 days ago +9
Yea the only exceptions I had were Travelling Wilburys and Temple of the Dog.
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Deezul_AwT 5 days ago +9
The supergroup I usually think of is Power Station, mainly because I like Robert Palmer.
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Weekly_Ad4045 5 days ago +4
The Taylor brothers are criminally underrated as musicians having been consumed by the glitz of the MTV Duran Duran thing. I will grudgingly admit to enjoying Girls on Film though.
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dale_dug_a_hole 4 days ago +3
Them crooked vultures please
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Weekly_Ad4045 5 days ago +5
I give credit to George and Jeff primarily.
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-CrabCrimes- 5 days ago +5
I think how they came together played a part. They were just friends hanging out and playing and writing music together rather than a group consciously put together. The organic nature of their formation probably helped a lot with their chemistry
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StuckInNY 5 days ago +5
They were not trying to prove anything so they just had fun lifting up Roy Orbison who the other members looked up to.
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atsparagon 4 days ago +5
And Them Crooked Vultures.
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MaverickTopGun 4 days ago +9
but Them Crooked Vultures actually rocks
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Broken-Digital-Clock 5 days ago +19
It's a bad indication that a lot of the budget was spent on star power.
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MakingaJessinmyPants 5 days ago +10
Invincible syndrome
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Broken-Digital-Clock 5 days ago +9
I still enjoy Invincible, but I do wonder how much better it could be with that money spent elsewhere.
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namideus 5 days ago +3
This isn’t a Wes Anderson film
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ContestAntique7179 5 days ago +66
I'll take it a step further. Commercials and podcasts. Unknown actors could book a commercial and it would pay for a good chunk of their rent. Now Oscar award winners are promoting gambling apps. Then there are podcasts. It used to be a medium for low level entertainers to find an audience. Now they give Amy Poehler golden globes for doing the same shit every other celebrity podcast does. I'm glad the Oscars bombed. Hollywood needs to die.
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imakittymeowmeow 5 days ago +40
The amount of gambling ads is depressing let alone the celebrities that endorse them. How many people are actually using these???
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jesseeme 5 days ago +14
A massive amount of people, they're everywhere, they wouldn't be spending the money if it didn't work unfortunately.
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mondaymoderate 5 days ago +19
TV shows too. It used to be that small time actors would start on TV shows then move to movies and then movie stars wouldn’t go back to TV. Now with the rise of streaming a lot of big names are taking TV show roles that would have normally went to no name actors.
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nancybyersharrington 5 days ago +17
It gives a new meaning to “pulling up the ladder” because there really just is no ladder anymore. There used to be hope for actors to get cast in commercials, then a soap opera, then a recurring role on a prime time show, then a lead, then make their film debut. Or skip some of those steps, but still move up through them. Now you start at the bottom and stay on the bottom, the top is just everybody being recycled aside from the times they cast their friend’s children.
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Rolling_Pugsly 4 days ago +3
Nepotism, all the way down.
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wwj 4 days ago +5
I miss the days of voice only actors and actors who would only ever do the odd Japanese commercial. Now it's the same 50 actors doing TV, film, commercials, and voice acting.
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dancingbriefcase 5 days ago +28
Yeah, Amy Poehler winning best podcast at the Golden globes was absolutely ridiculous. Nothing against her, but her podcast is nothing new. Marc Maron basically created that entire concept back in 2009. All these celebrities have mimicked the same exact Long interview type of show is just overplayed. They aren't interesting anymore. And it just becomes rich people talking about their rich lives. Also, I respect that Maron never filmed his podcast. It remained an audio medium until the end. Now, all of these new podcasts have fancy studios in LA. They are created by a mother network, and all they have to do is go into a studio and talk. It's easy for them.
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FR23Dust 4 days ago +6
If a podcast is hosted by a celebrity I automatically don’t listen. I simply don’t give a f*** about anything any rich actor has to say about any topic at all
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Gadzookie2 5 days ago +5
Yeah, to quote Andy Greenwald, it has really felt like last call at the money bar, not sure what has happened, but feel like so many celebs will really do anything now and ones who are definitely not struggling for real roles. I actually don’t mind a celebrity taking a small role in some show or movie where they are big enough to be a star, I kinda respect that; but like a guy worth 150m taking an ad for a very predatory company to make a few more million, hmm
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catgotcha 5 days ago +7
You are not wrong. But it's literally a business. If putting Aubrey Plaza on the playbill increases my viewership by 100x, I'll do it. It's not about what the actors need or want, it's about what the business generates. It's lame, but that's why this happens. 
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Salty_Help9066 5 days ago +34
I worked on this show, and I will say probably the big name actors got paid well, but this show employed a lot of local artists since it was animated in Vancouver and LA, rather than being sent overseas. Behind the big names there's just normal people trying to make a living. I stand behind what we made, I think it's a good show and I hope that we can get a 2nd season to really let the story breathe and so that we can all go back to work again.
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AprilTron 5 days ago +7
A podcast I listed to of working actors/writers (not big named, highly paid people) were promoting this show as something they worked on during the pandemic. They may not have been the main characters, but working voice actors definitely worked on this show.
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grifter356 5 days ago +3
I mean in fairness they don't exactly stunt cast for the benefit of the actors. It's for the benefit of the production, and usually for marketing and publicity reasons. Nobody really cares if Peggy Sue is in this thing but the only reason you're even here to comment in the first place is because of the name "Aubrey Plaza."
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Madwoman-of-Chaillot 4 days ago +20
“This is not a joke. This is a handful of words in a raincoat” The whole review is incredible, but this really cracked me up.
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Illustrious-Will-801 4 days ago +12
“What a wasteland of imagination it all is; its heart and soul as irretrievable as Kevin’s a***” Goddamn. Seriously though, I’m tired of this genre of animated shows
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NotSid 4 days ago +11
man 90% of new animated shows look the same and i automatically tune them out because of that.
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Tardislass 5 days ago +18
I’m guessing they wanted to make another BoJack Horseman but put more raunch in it because nowadays adult animation has to be more South Park than sweet. The cast sounds good though.
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kelpieconundrum 4 days ago +3
The cast sounds like they spent their money on the cast rather than on writers. Not even John Waters can rescue this
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loliduhh 4 days ago +10
Just another television executive trying to figure out what’s the laziest unwatchable drivel that the can still get people to watch.
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angelohat 4 days ago +54
Director of the show here! Just gonna give a little push here for people to watch and judge for themselves. You might like it, and if you don’t, that’s cool too!
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numeanine 4 days ago +22
Wow, well props for coming to this thread and sticking up for it. I will watch the pilot!
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angelohat 4 days ago +6
hell yeah thank you!
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CharlesDingus_ah_um 4 days ago +20
You know what? Hell yeah dude I like how you came and defended your show.
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Working-Tomato8395 4 days ago +33
You couldn't waterboard me into taking credit for this. 
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FR23Dust 4 days ago +9
Props for commenting, here, on Listnook. Sometimes I struggle to read responses to a particularly bad comment I make in a thread
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angelohat 4 days ago +15
Yeah, it can be rough. The Guardian gave a scathing review, but Decider, Variety, Hollywood Reporter all dug it so I think that gives at least a reason to peep.
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phbalancedshorty 4 days ago +14
Bold of you to admit
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Either_Storm_6932 4 days ago +8
I LOVE Aubrey, but I have to admit, this show just looks like Rick and Morty and Big Mouth, with the unappealing art style. I also don't like the "OMG POP CULTURE REFERENCE" or "HAHA DIRTY JOKE" that shows like these seem to have.
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Plenty-Climate2272 4 days ago +5
Honestly, the only good one of those is Strip Law
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New-Pollution536 4 days ago +7
Craziest part of this is the other two reviews posted are positive lol
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Weird_donut 5 days ago +14
I watched two episodes of this before dropping it. The idea of a cat of a broken up couple leaving to find himself is interesting, but the writing is just filled with bottom of the barrel pop culture references, smarmy millennial quips, and poorly done gross-out. And the art style is ugly. They somehow roped John Waters into this; even Pink Flamingos is more tasteful than this
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Trouble_is-a_Friend 4 days ago +6
I’m literally watching this show right now and it’s not great.
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Cold-Bug-4873 4 days ago +6
Makes me kinda want to see it.
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Mud-Bray 4 days ago +14
“There is the suspicion that something has gone very, very wrong in the writers’ room. Perhaps there weren’t enough biscuits. Perhaps the show was written by biscuits. “ This may be the most British review snippet I’ve ever seen.
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BeardedThunder5 4 days ago +4
Haven't read the reviews yet or seen the show. But is it actually worse than Mayim Bialiks cat show? That thing was terrible. Ohhh...animation..and it doesn't look good either. Thats a shame.
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LeonJPancetta 4 days ago +6
This is a fun review, I highly recommend reading it.
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BurnerProfile69420 4 days ago +4
did her and Tosh make a bet on who could come up with the worst animated TV show or what?
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chuckxbronson 4 days ago +5
This is a shame. Absolutely love the cast and creators. Gil Ozeri is like one of my favorite *Comedy Bang Bang* recurring guests and Joe Wengert wrote some of the best sketches for *Kroll Show.*
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Swimming_Mountain811 4 days ago +3
Heyyy fellow CBB enjoyer! Are you a piss pig as well?
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usmcbtc 4 days ago +5
So, basically it’s going to be a cult classic in a few years
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carolineecouture 5 days ago +7
I have to say, I just want to watch it to confirm how terrible it is. Maybe that's what Amazon wants?
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Cranlyssmile 4 days ago +8
I’m tempted for the same reason - but I don’t want it to be like “Velma” where everyone hate watches it… so it manages to succeed to a second season.
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jimbobdonut 5 days ago +9
I think we finally found an animated show worse than Allen Gregory!
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bag_of_luck 5 days ago +8
Joe and Aubrey are quite literally some of my least favorite type of people and I wish they would just stop trying to create shit.
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senorali 4 days ago +3
The worst thing about this show is that John Waters is really old and could keel over at any moment with *this* as his final role.
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ijoinedjustforrobot 4 days ago +3
I watched 7 minutes and so far I think it’s funny 
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Altruistic-Potatoes 4 days ago +3
"Kevin appears unsure whether to commit to gleeful grossness (a la Big Mouth) or emotionally profound dramedy (see: BoJack Horseman). Its unwillingness to engage in character development and its favouring of cruelty over empathy, however, ensures it succeeds at neither." Dayum.
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CascadeJ1980 4 days ago +3
What happened to her awesome animated show she had with Danny Devito when her daughter was the devils child?!
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