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- 2018
- TV-14
- Adult Swim
- 2018
- TV-14
- Adult Swim
Summary Astronaut Gary (voiced by Olan Rogers) befriends a cute alien named Mooncake (also Rogers) who is being sought after by the Lord Commander (David Tennant) to use for his own evil plans in the animated sci-fi comedy created by Rogers.
Created By: Olan Rogers
- 2018
- TV-14
- Adult Swim
- 2018
- TV-14
- Adult Swim
Final Space
Season 1 Premiere: Feb 26, 2018
60
8.0
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Summary Astronaut Gary (voiced by Olan Rogers) befriends a cute alien named Mooncake (also Rogers) who is being sought after by the Lord Commander (David Tennant) to use for his own evil plans in the animated sci-fi comedy created by Rogers.
Created By: Olan Rogers
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
17% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
60
67% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
17% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
If there’s one “Final Space” weakness, it’s that these early stretches take a few episodes to truly settle in to whatever the heart of the season turns out to be. But once that switch flips, it’s always a treat to see what this show manages to unleash. It’s weird and wonderful and not hemmed in by an overly referential charm.
That fusion of the simple and the vibrant is what makes the show worth tuning in for. Final Space is working from a template, but it’s adding colors that make these journeys well worth taking.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 265 User Ratings
8.0
78% Positive
207 Ratings
207 Ratings
8% Mixed
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
14% Negative
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 265 User Ratings
8.0
78% Positive
207 Ratings
207 Ratings
8% Mixed
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
14% Negative
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
Je pensais voir un dessin animé classique, au final il m'a fait rire et pleurer comme peu de films avant ça. Le scénario, les rebondissements, les problématiques évoquées sont bien plus profondes que ce qu'on peut penser au premier abord. Une mention spéciale pour la saison 3 qui est juste un chef d'oeuvre.
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a hidden gem uppon animated series. No japanese snime nor the typical american cartoon series just a comedy series in some mature way. A lot of funny moments and jokes.
I binged the series within two days on Netflix and cannot wait for the third season.
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This dysfunctional family comes together in exciting ways that lead to a lot of conflict, and they’re tested in ever more traumatizing ways, with heart-breaking results. It’s these characters that make the show worth watching.
As a satire on science-fiction and the world we ordinarily live in, it is not as clever as "Futurama" or "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" or "Galaxy Quest," series with which it shares certain features. The comedy leans toward things adolescent boys find funny. ... But it clips along and looks good.
Final Space needs to find a smarter path to its humor (and force its main character to grow up), but the Futurama-meets-Steven Universe premise holds promise, and with some adjustments, this series could potentially launch into hyper-speed.
Something got lost in the translation. Final Space isn't as remotely entertaining as, say, Futurama, nor any of the Fox animated series nor the non-animated Third Rock From the Sun for that matter--and especially not TBS' other, non-animated slice of brilliance, People of Earth, that O'Brien also executive produces. It's hard to ask people in the Peak TV era to stick with an animated comedy that's not exactly working on any level.
Decent premise and good suite of characters. As the story unfolds though it runs into a super convoluted storyline with copious amount of time-travel negating any past development and making everything inconsistent(season 2 I'm looking at you). It promises development and story, but fails to deliver.
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Season 2 Review. I have no idea what happened between season 1 and 2 but it seems like the heart has been taking out of the show. Nothing is the same. The characters vary wildly from who they were, there is no tension, and the few times the show tries to be compelling it falls flat. Comparing season 1 and 2 is like comparing the first two seasons of family guy to season 11 and beyond. Its to bad for a show that had so much potential.
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Final Space is a heavily-marketed, finely tuned, ready-made franchise; unashamedly pointed at the modern male nerd with an under-developed sense of wit, and a disposable income to spend on Funko figurines.
Some argument could be made about the visual quality of the show - and, like all shows that spend the entirety of their budget on visual effects, Final Space can be graphically spectacularly with a great fluidity of animation. Props to the suffering animators, as always. However, the praise stops there.
This show is less courageous than Rick & Morty. It's less heartfelt than Futurama. It's less salient than the Venture Brothers, and less sly than any of the classics of Adult Swim. And, it's less intelligent and less humourous than all of these, and most other significant animated series in its category; making no honest effort to leave its comfortable place among the swathes of new-style adult cartoon that have been vomited forth from media machines to shamelessly capitalize on the success of Rick & Morty. What it IS, however, is yet another poorly-written, needlessly energetic, overly-assured adult series that has stumbled through the literary process to end up with just enough base appeal to linger on for two tedious, aimless, over-promoted seasons. It fumbles every joke and sequence with a childish naivety.
You can almost hear the chittering of the marketing executives behind the scene, trying to engineer a show to be as mild and paletable to the modern mainstream audience as possible.
And that’s another thing; there isn’t a single original thought wasted on this series. It is truly stale to the core, and everything about it screams out “Worn-out trope” or “Heavily-abused Hollywood standard”, or “Plea for the lingering appeal of the adorkable.”. It is the living definition of derivative.
This is true for the characters: From the innocuous doofus of a white male protagonist; to his obligatory love interest, the dark-skinned, no-nonsense, affirmative-action-woman; the shippable anthropomorphs to capture the lucrative furry market; the needless, globular mascot; and the rest of them, I’ve already forgotten. The characters seem like they're designed purely for their market appeal; which is a slimy practice to any serious writer.
It’s also true for the stories: the senseless procession of scenes to fulfil some flighty, hole-shot plotline, in order to simulate the sensation of narrative motion; as if the show had any reason for going wherever it purports to be going. It reaches gracelessly and cluelessly toward emotional appeal, and only barely falls short of outright begging the audience for emotional attachment.
In fact, let me push it a step further: Final Space is the perfect example for why you, as a writer, shouldn’t endlessly regurgitate the things you see in other TV shows and movies. It clearly underlines the cancer of self-referential humour, low-effort parody, and inexperienced, echo-chamber scriptwriting that is killing modern entertainment, and has whittled the nuance of language and meaning down to a series of meaningless idioms and ingrained quips.
This cheap, lazy mindset is the direct enemy of the fresh and original; and in Final Space, it’s as visible as a large, squealing media beast falling backwards off a ricketty bandwagon.
Maybe I'm being a little cruel, or exaggerating the flaws of Final Space. There are certainly worse series by far; but few of them are so heavily promoted or baselessly praised (Apart from maybe Bojack Horseman - a more aware but equally rehashed shriek of attention from SoCal's insular creative circlejerk).
There is a certain earnesty to the people that fall in love with bad shows like this - a starry-eyed gushing of praise and assurances of perfection, and a stunning blindness to any shortcomings. If you're even fainly familiar with this kind of emotional commitment, you'll see it generously lathered throughout the other public reviews - and any assumptions you might make about the desperate, over-exertive nerdcore humour, and generic, uninspired plotlines of Final Space will probably be correct. This show definitely appeals to the culturally devoid and artistically blind.
To these people, I suggest you take a deeper dive into adult animation than what you'll find on the splash screen of Netflix. You may think that Final Space is a champion of ireverent adult animation - but in reality, it's a well-funded but exceedingly mediocre scrapbook of its contemporaries. It sits as a sieve on the surface of adult animation; catching anybody that scorns the effort needed to find the true gems.
And to the people that wrote this show: Go read a **** book sometime.
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The writing is consistently lackluster when it isn't abominably lazy. This is the most tragic type of series - you can tell an immense amount of work went in, and little (if any) thought. Also the protagonist's voice is astonishingly grating and poorly-performed. I've never longed for **** voice acting before, but **** voice acting would have been a monumental step up.
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Production Company:
- Conaco
- Jam Filled Entertainment
- ShadowMachine
- Studio T
Initial Release Date: Feb 26, 2018
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
