I mean, let's take into consideration all the things it has going for it...
- It is created by Emily Spivey, who has written for MadTV, Saturday Night Live, Parks & Rec., Up All Night, Modern Family, The Last Man on Earth, AND King of the Hill(Where she served as a story editor from 2001-2003).
- It is produced by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, a dynamic duo in both animation and comedy from the underrated MTV gem Clone High, the 21 Jump Street film series, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The LEGO Movie, The Last Man on Earth, and last year's Academy-Award Winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse.
- It stars Kristen Wiig(Who also serves as producer), Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz, and Jillian Bell. All are extremely talented performers(in front of the camera and with voice) with serious range(Especially Wiig who may take on a serious career turn after being Cheetah in Wonder Woman 84 next year). Its guest stars include even Holly Hunter for goodness sake.
- It is set in the same universe as King of the Hill apparently(Mega-Lo Mart), even if its so minor a detail that is a huge attention draw in my book.
...And yet nothing about it works.
First of all the animation is not very good, the movement of the characters is always a bit off. The character designs are not particularly consistent when they should be.
The tone of the humor is all over the place, sometimes its trying to be grounded other times its trying to be pretty outlandish.
The storylines are pretty 'been there, done that' and don't hold enough interest for a half hour.
The characters are not really interesting, they're essentially cardboard cutouts of cardboard cutouts of other better characters that we have seen over and over again, the cast tries to make them fresh but the writing only allows them so far.
As I said before, this should work and be Grade A entertainment, but unfortunately it is a misfire.
