YMMV / Magical Girl Friendship Squad

• Critical Dissonance: Most critical reviews range from favorable at best or okay but flawed at worst. Audience reaction, on the other hand, has been harsher. This can be seen with sites like Rotten Tomatoes, where the score with critics is at a fresh 100%, while Audience is at 33%.
• Crosses the Line Twice: When Alex is pressed to think of click-bait articles at her day job, one of her pitches is an article about finding Mitch McConnell kinda sexy.
• Designated Hero: Alex and Daisy are not very sympathetic or endearing characters. The first thing they're shown doing is laughing at a man getting mugged. This wouldn't be an issue, except that numerous other episodes expect the audience to empathize with the girls and their struggles are portrayed completely straight.
• Fridge Brilliance: In episode 4, everyone gets infected with mushroom-like parasites called Mushroominations, which whisper nasty things to their host about the host's deepest insecurities. After both of them are infected, Daisy and Alex sit in the running shower with their clothes on. Daisy was seen showering naked (as people usually do) earlier in the episode. She and Alex are showering in their underwear because the Mushroominations have worn down their self confidence to the point that they don't feel comfortable being seen naked by anyone, even the people they trust most: each other.
• Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: Alex and Daisy are ironically disliked more than the antagonists themselves (who many viewers see as too bland and one dimensional to be disliked), due to their lack of sympathy for those around and for having incredibly self-centered and obnoxious personalities that make it impossible to root for them.
• Signature Scene:
  • Nut having the girls stick their fingers up her butt to suck them inside in order to provide exposition of her backstory is the best-known scene of the series, for better or for worse.
  • Also for better or for worse, Alex's period blood attack.
• Squick:
  • Nut having Alex and Daisy stick their fingers up her butt, and then sucking them in.
  • Alex uses period blood as an attack in episode 3.
• Uncertain Audience:
  • The show seems to be marketed to a base that doesn't exist. Fans of Magical Girl shows don't like it because it's more like a Western adult cartoon than a Magical Girl show that also stops in several episodes to take shots at fans of anime in general, haters of Magical Girl shows don't watch it because it at markets itself as an Affectionate Parody of them, and people who don't care about Magical Girl shows have no real reason to care about the show either. Add in the often-criticized animation, and the result ends up with a relatively small audience.
  • Moreover, the show seems to want to market towards millennials, but a good portion of the writing seems to have outright contempt for the current generation, with worn-out jokes about avocado toast and "outrage" culture.

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