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- 2021
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- HBO Max
- 2021
- TV-MA
- HBO Max
Summary Elf Candy Smalls (voiced by Sarah Silverman) gets her chance be the first female Santa Clause on Christmas Eve after the successor to the current Santa Clause (voiced by Seth Rogen) leaves for Amazon in this stop-motion animated comedy series.
Created By: Alexandra Rushfield
- 2021
- TV-MA
- HBO Max
- 2021
- TV-MA
- HBO Max
Santa Inc.
Season 1 Premiere: Dec 2, 2021
Metascore
Available after 4 critic reviews
0.3
Summary Elf Candy Smalls (voiced by Sarah Silverman) gets her chance be the first female Santa Clause on Christmas Eve after the successor to the current Santa Clause (voiced by Seth Rogen) leaves for Amazon in this stop-motion animated comedy series.
Created By: Alexandra Rushfield
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In a lot of ways, the show is a workplace comedy with a lot of gender politics mixed in. If you look at it like that, and appreciate Silverman’s performance as Candy for the low-key seethe it is, Santa Inc. becomes enjoyable.
Nothing in four episodes of Santa Inc. shocked me in the slightest or even felt all that edgy — not in a world already saturated with South Park and Robot Chicken permutations and knock-offs. Heck, nothing here felt as weird as Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey. Still, Santa Inc. works on some traditional levels, especially when it comes to its ensemble.
User Score
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 181 User Ratings
0.3
2% Positive
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1% Mixed
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98% Negative
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177 Ratings
User Score
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 181 User Ratings
0.3
2% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
1% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
98% Negative
177 Ratings
177 Ratings
The show is creative and entertaining. The acting and script are pretty good. It is a little raunchy like Team America or South Park but also deals with some important issues. Recommended for most people.
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[Silverman's Candy Smalls'] ambition is winsome and is a rare aspect of the show that feels properly pitched at a grown-up audience without losing balance. Elsewhere, though, the show’s attempted witty touches — making the reindeer, for instance, methamphetamine addicts in order to explain how they travel the globe so rapidly — tend toward the miscalibrated. When the show displays a visual wit or a loopy joy with wordplay, it makes it feel all the more like a waste of energy.
Stop motion is great so it deserves a 1. The rest ****. Seth rogan is going down hill. If you hate anyone right of mao than you will Iike this.
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Take the most beloved mythical character of the day, and turn him into an out-of-touch bigot, put in adult humor and "edginess" with little context to validate it, a dash of divisive political pandering... And you have a turd-sandwitch. Eat it, then puke it up on a steaming service and you have Santa Inc. Just offensive. But it gets a 1 beside the animation is actually quite well done.
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Production Company:
- HBO Max
- Lionsgate Films
- Lionsgate Television
- Point Grey Pictures
Initial Release Date: Dec 2, 2021
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA