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Honestly it's infinitly better than whatever Disenchantment was and way better than Bob's Burgers has been in at least 5 years. It suffers from a lot of the same issues as Disenchantment; using the setting as the joke without writing an actual joke, breaking out of it's own universe to reach for a joke, repetitive one dimensional characters, leaning on the performances instead of giving the actors any actual material to work with. These are kind of staples of all post-golden age comedies now though and the redeeming parts of this show are absolutely the voice talent and art style. I do think it needs to pick a side and either take itself more seriously and get shmaltsy and feely like Community or go full Rick and Morty and just stop giving a sht all together.

The podcast Behind the B has an incredible series on this event and the history of colonialist and neighboring people involving themselves with the very unwilling North Sentinelese people that was very informative and interesting and made it very clear that these people want to be left alone and reinforcing that what Chau did was reckless, stupid, arrogant and selfish. I highly recommend the podcast if you want to actually learn about what happened, including what John did in the lead up to going to the island that helped him rationalize his decision. This documentary is borderline harmful in glorifying this man and treating him like a dreamer with a calling instead of a selfish moron while making the people he endangered take a back seat to this wannabe colonialist.

The writing is god awful. It feels like a product of the writer's strike or maybe just "uh, what else do we have" trying to crank out content. Didn't even get the Gillian Jacobs to do the voice which was just weird. The pacing is annoyingly bad. It feels like they didn't have enough story with just this one character to focus on for an episode so the whole thing just repeats itself over and over. Maybe if they had explored more characters during this time period they wouldn't have to rely on this one story that clearly couldn't fill an hour without getting frustratingly repetitive. This should have been a 10 minute cold open for a regular episode of Invincible.