Okay, lets get the one thing about this show that I really don't like off my chest. The animation sucks, but it doesn't suck so bad that it's obviously meant to be part of the joke. This isn't Stylistic Suck like South Park, it's just the sort of Flash-style animation that we've come to associate with cheap, zero-effort shows. The only exception to this are the Mushroom Samba sequences, which is where the animation usually jumps up a few notches.
That's pretty much the only negative thing I can say about the show. It's brilliant, and it deserves far better animation than it's currently getting.
On the surface it seems like another dumb "adult" cartoon in the same mould as Family Guy featuring a main character that looks rather like that tired old rubber horse mask internet meme moaning about his First World Problems and being generally shitty to his friends. It takes a few episodes to realise that this show is very very different from those for one very important reason: All those terrible actions that characters like Peter Griffon indulge in? Here, they have very real consequences. It might take several episodes or even seasons for those consequences to become apparent, but they will come out in the end. Forget Status Quo Is God here, there is nothing that stays the same for long here. Because of this we can see that many of the characters are the architects of their own misery, because the shitty things they do always come back to haunt them sooner or later.
Another thing that sets this show aside from the ones it superficially resembles is that its characters are layered and complex, not just archetypes. The horse guy feels far more real and deep than many flesh-and-blood characters.
There are a few episodes that miss the mark, most notable amongst them is the literal Fish Out Of Water, but even though I don't like it I can at least say it failed because the crew working on the show were brave enough to attempt something very different. I can at least appreciate the effort of a brave failure.
This is a must-watch if you have Netflix. The first episodes are pretty funny if a little generic, but its when the consequences start to kick in that you will really start to understand what this show is really about.
You are everything that's wrong with you
Okay, lets get the one thing about this show that I really don't like off my chest. The animation sucks, but it doesn't suck so bad that it's obviously meant to be part of the joke. This isn't Stylistic Suck like South Park, it's just the sort of Flash-style animation that we've come to associate with cheap, zero-effort shows. The only exception to this are the Mushroom Samba sequences, which is where the animation usually jumps up a few notches.
That's pretty much the only negative thing I can say about the show. It's brilliant, and it deserves far better animation than it's currently getting.
On the surface it seems like another dumb "adult" cartoon in the same mould as Family Guy featuring a main character that looks rather like that tired old rubber horse mask internet meme moaning about his First World Problems and being generally shitty to his friends. It takes a few episodes to realise that this show is very very different from those for one very important reason: All those terrible actions that characters like Peter Griffon indulge in? Here, they have very real consequences. It might take several episodes or even seasons for those consequences to become apparent, but they will come out in the end. Forget Status Quo Is God here, there is nothing that stays the same for long here. Because of this we can see that many of the characters are the architects of their own misery, because the shitty things they do always come back to haunt them sooner or later.
Another thing that sets this show aside from the ones it superficially resembles is that its characters are layered and complex, not just archetypes. The horse guy feels far more real and deep than many flesh-and-blood characters.
There are a few episodes that miss the mark, most notable amongst them is the literal Fish Out Of Water, but even though I don't like it I can at least say it failed because the crew working on the show were brave enough to attempt something very different. I can at least appreciate the effort of a brave failure.
This is a must-watch if you have Netflix. The first episodes are pretty funny if a little generic, but its when the consequences start to kick in that you will really start to understand what this show is really about.