Dream Corp LLC

Each episode, a new patient's dreams are examined in a sort of psychedelic computer-generated Inception dreamworld. The show's short runtime ensures that there's never a dull moment, though it's sometimes unsatisfying (it'd be nice to flesh out each character and plot more). The characters are all quirky and unique, and the soundtrack is great. My only complaint is that I'd like more of it and longer episodes!

I'm enthusiastically giving this show a 10/10.

I'm a big Rick & Morty fan, and someone suggested I should check out this new Adult Swim show called Dream Corp LLC. I was thinking "what a weird title", but decided to give it a try (thank you Adult Swim website for letting me watch all 6 episodes).

This show is very smart, very funny, and the characters are just top notch hilarious. I've probably watched every episode about 5 or 7 times. The jokes are fast just like Arrested Development, you have to re-watch the episodes to catch them all. It's just great fun all around.

I'm excited to see more of Dream Corp. I'm hoping they even make a movie at some point.

The show is only 10 min long, so give it a try. I did, and now I'm hooked.

This is close to the best show I've seen since perhaps Firefly. The only one which edges it out would be The Expanse. I really like the nostalgic feel to it, even though it's still set in a modern timeline the various blends this show takes on is fantastic.

I don't expect most people to "get" this show, it takes a particularly warped mind to appreciate the art & sci-fi blend. It's right up my alley, and I expect the show to have a cult following for many years after it's inevitably cancelled. Hopefully we get a few more seasons yet.

To give it a 10 it would need to have atleast 20min episodes and a stronger running plot.

Dream Corp is unlike anything on Adult Swim, which is saying a lot. The show tries to do a lot in 11 minutes, although it's billed as a comedy first. It can have a lot of fun with characters during their animated 'dream therapy', i.e. watching a conservative old lady let loose and give the bird to her family members. The comedy during live-action sequences isn't as impressive: save for secretary Joey who is hilarious by nature, the staff members don't make memorable characters.

However the meat of the show is psychedelic and nightmarish. The rotoscoped animation is great, rotoscoping is a really under-appreciated technique. Plus the live-action set has great lighting and feels very unique. And on top of all this Dream Corp tries to express some of the patients' deeper issues. The problem is that these issues can be pretty ambiguous, and the abstract animation does little to help. When a patient is diagnosed effectively, the insane dream sequences make sense, it's rewarding, and it makes me want to re-watch the episode straight away. Other times it's just played for laughs, like how a woman is almost cured of OCD before being tranquilized from off- screen, which is obviously not rewarding.

Overall though I think the show is a winner. The rotating cast are all memorable, the structure of each episode is great and the mix of realism and absurd-ism works surprisingly well. If the show were half an hour it would make a bit more sense, but late-night TV isn't really supposed to make sense.