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Geek Tyrant
09-07-2025
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- Geek Tyrant
Trailer For BOJACK HORSEMAN Creator's New Animated Series LONG STORY SHORT — GeekTyrant
If you've been craving the emotional gut-punches and existential laughs that BoJack Horseman delivered, creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg is back with a brand-new animated series that looks to pick up right where your soul left off. Netflix has just dropped the first teaser for Long Story Short , a 10-episode animated comedy about a dysfunctional family called the Schwoopers. Long Story Short is 'an animated comedy from the creator of BoJack Horseman about one family, over time," Netflix explains. "Jumping through the years, we follow the Schwooper siblings from childhood to adulthood and back again, chronicling their triumphs, disappointments, joys, and compromises.' The show is being billed as 'a comedy for anyone who has ever loved or hated their family.' So basically, all of us. In classic Bob-Waksberg fashion, the teaser trailer features siblings fighting in the back seat, and uses it to explore the passage of time, memory, and how some things, especially family dynamics, never really change. It opens with young Schwooper kids bickering like only siblings can, before fast-forwarding to their adult versions... still fighting in the same absurd way. That time-hopping trick is the series' whole deal. The voice cast includes, Ben Feldman as Avi Schwooper, Abbi Jacobson as Shira Schwooper, Max Greenfield as Yoshi Schwooper, Michaela Dietz as Hannah Schwooper, Lisa Edelstein as Naomi Schwartz, Paul Reiser as Elliott Cooper, Angelique Cabral, Nicole Byer, and Dave Franco round out the ensemble Long Story Short premieres August 22 on Netflix. So mark your calendars and prep your inner child for another round of animated therapy.
UPI
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Watch: Netflix releases teaser trailer for animated series 'Long Story Short'
July 9 (UPI) -- Netflix released a teaser trailer for Long Story Short, a new adult animated comedy from BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg. The teaser, released Wednesday, shows the Schwooper family having the same disputes about backseat etiquette during two road trips decades apart. "Jumping through the years, we follow the Schwooper siblings from childhood to adulthood and back again, chronicling their triumphs, disappointments, joys, and compromises," the official synopsis reads. The main cast includes Lisa Edelstein, Paul Reiser, Ben Feldman, Abbi Jacobson, Max Greenfield, Angelique Cabral and Nicole Byer, with Dave Franco and Michaela Dietz in recurring roles. Noel Bright and Steven A. Cohen serve as executive producers for Tornante Television, while Lisa Hanawalt is supervising producer. Corey Campodonico and Alex Bulkley from animation studio ShadowMachine serve as co-executive producers. Long Story Short premieres Aug. 22 on Netflix.
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Fixed' Review: From the Mind of Genndy Tartakovsky Comes a Comedy About a Horndog With a Castration Complex
Next time someone tells you animation is for kids, consider offering 'Fixed' as clear evidence to the contrary. Crude in both senses of the term — from its raunchy humor to the deliberately un-slick animation style — Genndy Tartakovsky's R-rated feature is to 'Lady and the Tramp' as 'Shaving Ryan's Privates' is to a respected Spielberg movie. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation and dropping on Netflix, where it should be right at home with the likes of 'BoJack Horseman' and 'Big Mouth,' the off-color comedy focuses on how a randy rescue mutt (Adam Devine as Bull) reacts to the news he's about to be neutered. Bull has balls (which are lovingly drawn beneath his asterisk-shaped keister), but not for long. That is, unless he can figure out some way to outwit his owners, who've done little to domesticate their beloved if misbehaved companion since the day they adopted him. 'Fixed' starts out irreverent — with a scene of Bull moaning in ecstasy as he mounts Nana's leg — and gets increasingly brazen as it goes along, which is no easy feat for gutter humor to sustain. More from Variety Indian Animation Returns to Annecy with Namaste MIFA! Showcase Cartoon Network Studios Icons McCracken, Tartakovsky, Sugar, Quintel, Ward and Muto on The Studio, State of the Industry and What Inspires Them 'Animal Farm' Review: Andy Serkis' Sloppy Animated Adaptation Trades Political Insights for Potty Humor Most shock comedies peter out after the first few gags, whereas 'Fixed' rivals 'Pink Flamingoes' in its ever-escalating capacity to offend — and doesn't stop at eating doggy doo either. By the end, Bull's willing to risk his asterisk to protect Honey (Kathryn Hahn), the purebred Afghan hound who lives next door. A fence separates the two neighbors, but there's obvious chemistry between them, even if Bull believes Honey's out of his league — and it's easy to see why, since Honey's a prize-winning show dog destined to be mated with the stuck-up Sterling (Beck Bennett). So the toon's cheeky plot goes something like this: Early on, Bull feels superior to all the neutered animals at the dog park because he's still got his gonads. He loves Honey, but doubts he'll be able to do anything about it before the vet gets to snipping. So Bull runs away from home, enjoying the canine equivalent of an Amish Rumspringa, only to realize he might not be cut out for freedom after all. Frankly, that premise is little more than the setup for the sort of jokes that feel 'wrong' — in all the right ways — to find in an animated feature. Nana mistakes Bull's excitement for her lipstick? Check. Lucky the Chihuahua (Bobby Moynihan) snacks on cat scraps? Check. There's even a hallucinatory pot-induced scene where Bull's dangling duo (whom he names Old Spice and Napoleon) declare their independence and set off on their own. Sacrificing good taste in pursuit of the higher goal — which could be described as joining 'Fritz the Cat' in animated infamy — Tartakovsky and co-writer Jon Vitti (a veteran of 'Saturday Night Live' and 'The Simpsons') make no apologies for the project's obscene sense of humor. Compare that to classic Tex Avery and Roger Rabbit shorts, which looked kid-friendly but were full of adult-skewing sexual innuendo, and you've got a movie that's not only comfortable being outrageous, but fairly original in how it goes about it (a vast improvement over 2023's live-action 'Strays'). In genre terms, 'Fixed' amounts to a pooch-centric variation on the 'American Pie'-style sex comedy. If you don't count Nana's leg (or the fruit bowls and flowerpots that Bull's been defiling for years), then this oversexed canine is still a virgin. By the time Bull and his friends find a cathouse where he can satisfy his urges, the movie is bone-deep into 'oh no, they didn't' territory. While Lucky gets lucky with a Doberman named Frankie (River Gallo), Bull and his boys, Rocco (Idris Elba) and Fetch (Fred Armisen), explore the kind of cartoon kinks not even Seth Rogen's 'Sausage Party' dared to depict. Unlikely as it may sound, inside this den of depravity, 'Fixed' finally gets emotional. It wouldn't do to spoil the surprises. Suffice to say, the film proves impressively grown-up about how far Bull must go to atone for his behavior. Turns out you can teach a horndog new tricks. Best of Variety The Best Albums of the Decade
Digital Trends
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
3 underrated Netflix shows you should watch this weekend (June 20-22)
Watching shows on Netflix has become the way that many people wind down after long and stressful days. The trouble is that Netflix offers so many options that you might unwind by scrolling through the pages instead of actually picking something. If you'd like to avoid that problem, we're here to help. We've compiled a list of three underrated shows you can check out on the streaming service, with each offering something totally different. Recommended Videos Need more recommendations? Then check out the best new shows to stream this week, as well as the best shows on Netflix, the best shows on Hulu, the best shows on Amazon Prime Video, the best shows on Max, and the best shows on Disney+. BoJack Horseman (2014-2020) An animated horse cartoon doesn't necessarily scream excellence, but BoJack Horseman was one of the most acclaimed shows on Netflix. The series tells the story of a former sitcom actor who, while still wealthy, is now a narcissistic alcoholic who alienates everyone who tries to get close to him. The show explores BoJack's bad behavior and his attempts to improve over the course of six seasons, and it's one of the more inventive, fascinating shows they've ever produced. It's been over for five years, but now is the perfect time to check it out if you missed it back in the day. You can watch Bojack Horseman on Netflix. Good Girls (2018-2021) A brilliant show about three women who take control of their own lives, Good Girls follows two sisters and their best friend as they decide to hold up a grocery store to get each of them out of some financial difficulty. Because they're new to this whole 'doing crimes' thing, the holdup doesn't go perfectly. The trio realizes that the only way they can escape is by working together. Good Girls is hilarious, occasionally thought-provoking, and a wonderful showcase for its three central performers. You can watch Good Girls on Netflix. Narcos (2015-2017) Narcos was a phenomenon when it first aired, but that was almost a decade ago now. The series, which lasted just three seasons, tells the story of the rise of the cocaine trade in Colombia in the late 1980s and follows real-life drug kingpins, including Pablo Escobar. The show, which also followed law enforcement efforts to combat the drug trade, was often riveting drama and anchored by a slew of great actors. Narcos was the type of cop show that we rarely see, and its focus on a particular time period in history gave it the kind of heft few shows can fake. You can watch Narcos on Netflix.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Raphael Bob-Waksberg on Life and Work Post-‘BoJack,' His New Netflix Series, and Its Call to Industry Action: ‘We Don't Want AI Art'
'Long Story Short' cuts to the point. Coming from 'BoJack Horseman' creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg, it's without the parody dressing 'BoJack Horseman' presents, instead getting closer to the heart of human conflict and comedy. Screening at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival this week, the first episode of the 'BoJack' creator's latest animated Netflix series sees Avi (Ben Feldman) bring his new girlfriend Jennifer (Abbi Jacobson) to meet his family ahead of his little brother Yoshi's (Max Greenfield) Bat Mitzvah. It drowns you in overlapping dialogue, religious anxiety, and eccentric family members, immediately distancing itself from Waksberg's past work. The series then follows the Jewish family through the years, their hopes, and disappointments. More from IndieWire Jacinda Ardern Documentary 'Prime Minister' Shows Us How the New Zealand Leader Is the Anti-Trump TV's Hottest Club Is Philadelphia - Why This American City Is a Perfect Playground for New Shows 'I was thinking about family, time, and identity,' Waksberg told IndieWire at Annecy. 'In the writers room, I wrote those up on a board, like this is what the show is about. More specifically, I was thinking about how our relationships with our family change over time, and how our identity changes over time, and the ways we see ourselves and think about ourselves, and how so much of that is defined by our family. When we have kids, oftentimes we are trying to either emulate or correct the ways that we were brought up. In some ways, we succeed, and in some ways, we fail. In some ways, we repeat what our parents did, and in some ways, we overreact to what our parents did. To think about that cause and effect on a longitudinal scale was really interesting.' As much as the themes resonate with him personally, Waksberg hesitates to label 'Long Story Short' as autobiographical. 'I would say it feels more personal than autobiographical, because you don't know my biography. But I wanted it to feel real and lived in. It's not really about my family, but it is about family, and it's about my thoughts on family, the rhythms of family and the way family interacts. I'd say all my work is personal in that way. I'm of the belief that on some level, all art is autobiographical, sometimes in ways you don't even realize.' Authentically depicting family made Waksberg write in a different register than what 'BoJack' offered audiences. 'We definitely do more dual dialogue than we ever did on 'BoJack.' That was very intentional. I wanted to have multiple conversations happening at the same time, and an awareness that the audience is not going to hear everything, and that's okay, that's a little leap of faith that people aren't going to feel like, 'Wait, what's going on?' Part of making a show is teaching your audience how to watch it. We want to be intentional in signaling to the audience that, if you missed something, don't worry, you're not supposed to get everything, maybe watch it a second time and pick out what other people are saying. We wrote and edited the dialogue, trying to move the conversations faster.' He added, 'This part is actually very autobiographical. It's based on my family and probably other families as well. You don't wait till the end of the sentence to start talking, especially when you know what the other person is saying, you're gonna start before they're done. If you're not raised in that mode, it can be very overwhelming and off-putting, but I'm interrupting you because I'm showing that we're in this together. So I think trying to write in that mode was very intentional.' 'Long Story Short' also feels so personal because of its exploration of Jewish identity, depicting Yoshi as having a crisis of faith. 'Being Jewish means so many different things to different people,' said Waksberg. 'A lot of stories about religion are centered around faith, because that is the Christian narrative, and faith is such an important part of Christianity and Judaism as I've experienced it. I'm not speaking for all Jews, but it's not as based in faith. That's not all what being Jewish means. I'm interested in religion as far as culture and community and history and identity.' Returning from working on 'BoJack' with Waksberg, as well as Netflix's 'Tuca & Bertie,' is character designer Lisa Hanawalt, whose work is more restrained, more minimal, than what she showcased on her previous series. 'It was very intentional,' added Waksberg. 'We wanted it to not look like 'BoJack' or 'Tuca.' We didn't want it to be mistaken as a spinoff and feel like BoJack can walk in any minute. That was the main guidance I gave her. Working with Lisa as long as I have, there's trust there, there's faith there, and I often feel the less direction I give her, the more I get to be surprised and delighted. I was really interested in her idea of having dots for eyes, instead of full eyes. We did a lot of tests to see how expressive they could be, and you look at old 'Peanuts' comics. Those characters are very expressive. It was really fun to think about new ways of using eyes on this show.' When he spoke to IndieWire last year, Waksberg discussed how 'BoJack Horseman' had to be tailored around how audiences watch shows on streaming: linearly and often all at once. In the 11 years since, the landscape has changed yet again, which led him to think differently about the structure of 'Long Story Short.' 'I was interested in thinking about how audiences watch shows. One thing I have felt is that 'BoJack' has done very well, even for people who weren't watching when it was on. One of the reasons for that is because it's long-running, there are 77 episodes of it, and when you get to the end, you're ready to start it all over again.' Waksberg said, 'That's harder to do with fewer seasons with shorter episode orders, which you see a lot of in streaming. On a show like this, the goal is to make you fall in love with the characters. Can you shortcut that a little bit by jumping around time and watching these characters grow up? Can you feel, by the end of the first season, that you've watched five seasons of this show? Can you feel that same kind of warmth that you feel with something you've seen 100 episodes of? That's the great experiment. Given the landscape of television right now, I'm probably not going to get 100 episodes. Is there a way to get some of that same effect?' At the end of the credits, 'Long Story Short' makes a point to stress that 'This Programme Was Made By Humans.' 'It's a bit of a toothless guarantee, because there's no standard at this point, there's no Humane Society of Anti-AI to certify this as the correct amount of non-automation,' said Waksberg. 'But as a statement of value, it was worth saying out loud, 'This is important to us,' and what I love about the show is that it is made by humans. Even in the artwork, we were really deliberate in saying, 'Let's color outside the lines a little bit, let's, let's make this feel handmade.' In the writing, too, we want it to feel personal. We want it to feel specific.' He added, 'One of the things I love about getting to do this work is how collaborative it is. I get to work with these other humans who come in with their own stuff. I could see a world in which I had an idea for a show, and I could write up a paragraph about it, and then a machine could kind of spit it out exactly the way I was imagining it should. I don't think we're there yet, but I could see that scenario. But I don't want a show exactly the way I'm imagining it. I get to be surprised by the brilliance and the experience of these other people that have worked on it. And I do feel like we need to draw some lines in the sand. We all do, every single day. I don't know what that line is, but I think it is worth talking about, as audiences [are] saying we don't want AI art.' 'Long Story Short' premieres on Netflix August 22. 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