Win or Lose

This animation is perfect Many people may think it isn't because it shows us our faults,not just entertaining and help to forget my faults It helps me to forgive myself,Well I figured out that I'm not alone because you showed me that everyone is like me,they have inner thoughts, they have problems,well I used to think I am the only one who is like that. But No,seems like we all are the same. So I appreciate what you made ,it's a little hard to watch because of showing our faults yeah😅 I know but it really really worth it to face with my faults again and get stronger that them. Thank you Pixar thank you.

I know this show is meant for kids, but after seeing clips of it on tiktok it seemed very compelling and I thought I'd at least try and watch it because why not. After watching the first 5 episodes, I have realized that this show is beyond amazing. The way it utilizes perspective intertwined with storytelling is better than any other media that I can recall. The symbolism used in this show is unlike any other for conveying details in a simple yet detailed manner. As a 17 year old, I think this show is teaching me a lot about the right way to live day to day. It has valuable lessons that I think even adults could learn from. Although rated PG, it does seem a little mature for kids below middle school and I wouldn't understand this show until 8th grade honestly and that's just being able to grasp the basic overall concept of this show. I cannot understate how memorizing this show is. It incorporates such such good storytelling at the level of movies like inception and interstellar but manages to put that into a show with an intended audience of around 11-14 years old. This show is absolutely fantastic.

I had such low hopes coming from this series, but boy did it prove me wrong! The first & second episode were okay but by the third & fourth episode I was hooked! The final was a perfect ending for the series, don't get me wrong this series has flaws but that's what makes it special. My favorite episode was by far Kai's episode and I related a lot to it. That's what is also so great about this show, it is relatable for people of ALL ages.

Just think about it. There is an episode about anxiety, there is an episode about the struggle of letting your guard down, there is an episode about a child having to take care of their parent, there is an episode about the struggles of being a single mom just trying to provide for your kids, there is an episode about a kid getting taking advantage of by manipulative older kids, there is an episode about using humor as a coping mechanism, there is an episode about the pressure that comes from being the star player of ANY sport team, and there is an episode a single dad just trying to hold it in all together. There is such a wide variety of struggles that is is almost impossible not to relate to a character, their struggles, or their personalities.

Dear, Disney/Pixar. Please make more of your creativity show through with more projects like these.

Fresh and relevant take on kids entertainment from Disney. Characters are awesome and each perspective brings them more depth. We loved how each family dynamic is different and not just the standard molecular family. Also very diverse group which was really cool too. Disney is highlighting mental health as an underlying theme within this series which doesn't get brought up often in cartoons and it's great the kids are seeing and understanding the stressors of what could be really effecting kids of that age group. We binged the first 6; kids got to stay up late that night. It was equally entertaining for adults as well. Anxiously awaiting the next drop.

I am not one to watch many series, nor have I seen much of Disney+'s offerings after having been a subscriber from the company's inception. Imagine my surprise when I casted this onto my TV to keep as background noise while I got some work done. Whether fortunate or unfortunate (depending on who you're asking), I got very little work done, as I was immediately drawn by this show's warm sensibilities, and dialed-in art style. After two episodes, I can frankly say that this truly came out of left field (pun unintentional, but welcome). The show's patiently reliable Pixar style seems to be riskier than films from eras past-with safe, predictable choices forfeited for visual gags and endearingly awkward punchlines that seem to come a mile-a-minute. This seems to be a show with a lot of hearts. Plural is apt here, as it seems to take the approach of unfolding the lead-up to a single calamitous event by unfolding the trajectories of each character's week leading up to the night in question. This, I believe, is where the show seems to take shape and really shine. As a watcher, I get the sense that one of the most challenging things to do for movies/series in the vein of "Win or Lose" lies in striking a correct tonal balance between being complex, sincere, and dynamic enough to win over mature audiences, whilst being simple and funny enough to not alienate the children who may be watching. Thus "family" humor seems to be something that is very hit-or-miss (there are the surprise baseball puns again). The subject matter of the episodes seem to draw from previous offerings like Inside Out-with an anthropomorphic depiction of insecurity and anxiety in one character's vignette-and Onward-with an unapologetically nerd-core game approach to "love" and "building up walls" as with another character. It seems to swing for the fences in every regard, oscillating between painfully human encounters with magical realism punchlines that blur the lines between what one person is experiencing in their inner world and what is actually happening. In this sense, it reminds me very much of Apple TV's "The Afterparty", to any of those who managed to find the stylings of that show appealing, if not varied in quality.

The cast of characters even seem to have adopted the successes of "Turning Red", opting for characters who ooze a winsome kind of awkwardness that feel neither forced, nor derivative. Episode 2 ends with an overture, rather than a crescendo-Billy Holiday's "No Regrets". After just two episodes, I decided to create an IMDB account, if merely to add my voice to the choir about how much I enjoy this show, after just two episodes. They hit it out of the park, bases loaded, with this one.