10 Best Adult Animated Shows On Netflix According to IMDB
For the first time in over a decade, Netflix announced that they had lost subscribers to their service. The once singular titan of the streaming service industry appears to be wobbling if only for a moment. Fortunately, Netflix still has an impressive library and continues to create original programming.
And where the service continues to have a leg up on its competitors is its animated programming, particularly shows directed at adults. Netflix has a cabal of creators and directors who continue to develop critically acclaimed shows for the network and their older creations continue to hold up.
10 Tuca & Bertie - 7.3
Tuca & Bertie was spawned by the crew who created mega-hit BoJack Horseman, one of Netflix's premiere shows that recently finished. So it's a bit curious that Netflix canceled the follow-up after just one season. Even still the first season of the show is worth it on its own.
Tuca and Bertie, who are two female birds, learn and grow in their early 30;s exploring the normal experiences all young adults have as well as some of the more troubling situations women trying to succeed can face. Ben Travers, in IndieWire, says, "...creator Lisa Hanawalt blends this imaginative spirit with stark, often intimidating, reality."
9 Total Drama - 7.4
A spoof of the same reality shows that are ever-present on the platform, Total Drama mainly targets the Survivor series but is more of a general parody of reality television in general. The show began on the Canadian television channel Teletoon but was passed to Cartoon Network and became one of its best shows after a strong cult following developed.
The story is of course decided from the outset but many viewers watch along as if the events are happening in real-time. For some viewers, the fake drama is no different than the manufactured kind seen on actual reality shows. Employees working on Total Drama are even asked to sign a confidentiality agreement to not reveal each season's winner.
8 Inside Job - 7.6
Some of the writers, animators, and creators from hit animated shows came together in 2021 to create Inside Job for Netflix. Artists from Gravity Falls, Disenchantment, BoJack Horseman, and Regular Show are all involved on the show in one way or another.
Looking like a cross between Rick and Morty and Regular Show, Inside Job comes at a very timely moment in American culture. The show revolves around an organization responsible for covering up the conspiracies that frequently pop-up on sites like Reddit and 4chan. Topical and funny, Inside Job is a good way to catch up on the escalating conspiracies abounding.
7 Big Mouth - 7.9
Horrifying character designs don't do a bit to detract from the humor and honesty in Nick Kroll and John Mulaney's Big Mouth. It's a show that takes an extremely deep dive into the awkward moments of adolescence, while also being a laugh a minute and making extremely relevant points about societal views on sexuality and gender.
Big Mouth pulls nothing when it comes to the uncomfortable and often disgusting realities that come with puberty. It's a show with a keen sense and appreciation for the time in your life when your body is changing faster than your mind can keep up. But it never forgets that while often scary it's almost as often hilarious.
6 F Is For Family - 8.0
F is for Family is about as odd a show to premiere on Netflix as any. While most adult animated series are trying to find new ways to investigate a growing cultural landscape and look through the lens of people so often dismissed, F is for Family instead looks through a classic 1970s sitcom to mine some new revelations.
Bill Burr co-creates the show and lends his brand of acerbic comedy to the story. The show is ostensibly about a stereotypical white middle-class family in the 1970s. But the show keeps from becoming a parody of itself by constantly asking the question of whether that old school way of thinking was ever a good thing, even then.
5 The Midnight Gospel - 8.2
Pendleton Ward's second series The Midnight Gospel takes the trippy visual and free-flowing comedy bent from his original Adventure Time series and turns it up to another level. The series is a strange free-form storytelling structure where the main character takes the role of a podcaster who goes on adventures and meets a variety of characters who become the interviewees on his podcast.
And that's not just the angle from which the plot develops, the show is actually based on co-creator Duncan Trussell's own podcast. Audio clips from the pods are used as dialogue. What results is anthology-like series where the plot is tertiary to the animation and discussions being had that touch on everything from death to existentialism to drug use.
4 Love, Death and Robots - 8.4
When Love, Death and Robots first appeared on Netflix in 2019, it was a rush for fans of animation. 18 different stories all unrelated not just in the story but in tone, duration, and maybe most significantly, visual style. Each short film in the first and second season is supposed to have at least one option from the title as a theme.
Some have more than one and some take some time to figure out which of the three nouns are the central theme. There's horror, comedy, fantasy, something for everyone and some of it is hand-drawn in cartoony style and some shorts are so visually impressive, it actually becomes difficult to tell if they're even animated at all and not just live-action.
3 Tear Along The Dotted Line - 8.7
Italian artist and graphic novelist Zerocalcare (or Michele Rech) adapted his own graphic novel, Tear Along the Dotted Line, in this recently released autobiographical series. The six-episode show is a direct look into Zerocalcare's mind through the author's surrogate, Zero, and there is a lot in Zero's mind. Steve Greene says in IndieWire, "...fits more into its first 15 minutes than pretty much any other animated TV series could."
Zero speaks for every character that appears in the show since he is the point of view until the finale when the audience is thrust into the present day. Zerocalcare employs all sorts of fourth-wall-breaking antics, time jumps, and soliloquies in order to show what it's really like being exposed to one person's thoughts.
2 BoJack Horseman - 8.8
BoJack Horseman may not end up being the greatest animated show that Netflix, or any studio, has put forth but it will be considered the grandfather of the adult animated shows that have swamped televisions. The absorbing plot of a beat-down depressed ex-movie star and his struggles with the mistakes in his life is juxtaposed by the vibrant colors, anthropomorphic animals, and laugh-out-loud puns of the world of the show.
There are too many incredible voice acting jobs to even count but Will Arnett as the title character, Bojack Horseman, has some truly incredible underrated quotes, and Alison Brie as the deuteragonist, Diane Nguyen, gives some of the finest line readings ever heard in animated features of any kind. Not since has any animated show kept viewers on the edge of their seats waiting for the next season like BoJack.
1 Arcane - 9.1
Even those who have not heard of Arcane have probably heard of League of Legends. It's one of the most popular and competitive esports in the world and thanks to Netflix, Arcane brings the story to the world of television. And against a bad history for video game licensed media, Arcane has proved to be a staggering success.
Mixing 2D and 3D animation, the show manages to tell an engrossing story while still hewing close to the source material. Many shows and movies based on video games tend to be cash grabs but the storytelling and character development of Arcane means season two is on the way.
Source: Screenrant
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