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IndieWireMay 2, 2019
Season 1 Review:
This isn’t a bait-and-switch situation; the comedy isn’t just a means to get to the drama. The two gel seamlessly as the characters develop and grow together. “Tuca & Bertie” connects on a deeper level than many cartoons, without devaluing the importance of joy, laughter, and good old fashioned fun.
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May 6, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Tuca & Bertie takes some time to find its rhythm, but once it does, it soars. Guest stars like Nicole Byer (who is a repertory company unto herself), Laverne Cox, Isabella Rossellini, Reggie Watts, and Awkwafina (as the Time’s Up-chanting breast) make an indelible impression, but Haddish and Wong’s performance are just as singular and key to the show’s success as Hanawalt’s surreal flourishes.
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May 2, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Especially in its early episodes, Tuca & Bertie feels like the manic lovechild of BoJack and Broad City. ... An ambitious mainstreaming of feminist art. Haddish embodies an archetype we’ve seen her as several times now (as well as a character whose tragic history is not dissimilar to the actress’s early years), but Tuca & Bertie allows her to fill in those outlines in fascinating new ways. Wong’s comedic persona is of a wild child too (if a reformed one), which makes the dramatic shadings of her performance a revelation.
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May 2, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Their introvert-extrovert dynamic is the most familiar aspect of the show, and early on “Tuca & Bertie” seems to want to cheerlead more than challenge its leads. But the characterization deepens as the 10-episode season moves on. ... What really distinguishes the show, though, is Hanawalt’s surreal vision, the anarchic fluidity of the landscape, the series’s whimsically bending laws of both nature and physics.
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May 2, 2019
Season 1 Review:
It's not Bojack Horseman. It's a lighter, looser, more fanciful series, one in touch with a far wider emotional palette, one in which joy and emotional release are actually possible. ... But in short order, Tuca & Bertie has become another Netflix animated gem for adults, one that can be placed in a conversation with Bojack, Big Mouth and F Is for Family.
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May 2, 2019
Season 1 Review:
A rare treat of a show. ... Hanawalt finally gets to play in a sandbox entirely of her own making, and the results are as weird as they are wonderful. ... They’re animated birds that are nonetheless recognizably human, and it’s a joy to watch them mess up and around as so few women ever get to do onscreen.
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Jul 11, 2022
Season 4 Review:
These episodes will make you laugh, they’ll make you cry, and they’ll make you crave bug bundts (sounds gross, but trust me, they look good). Tuca & Bertie’s third season proves that entertaining, hilarious, and downright weird television doesn’t have to sacrifice heart.
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Jun 21, 2021
Season 2 Review:
Based on the first four of the 10 new episodes, Tuca & Bertie 2.0 is slightly less aggressive about getting laughs. It still qualifies as a comedy and certainly contains plenty of scenes and storylines that lean fully into the genre. But it also seems to be embracing its introspective side more openly.
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The GuardianDec 4, 2019
Season 1 Review:
In comedy terms it’s more rolling chuckle than laugh-out-loud, and there are sometimes slightly jarring shifts in animation to lo-fi claymation or even sock-puppet styles. Those aside, this is a chirpily realised world that stays true to its experimentalism – and its pleasures are consistent, if deliciously twisted, and very surreal indeed.
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May 3, 2019
Season 1 Review:
More than anything, Tuca & Bertie is just funny. It finds humor in just about everything: in the serious subjects, in the gross things about women that are rarely talked about, in growing into your 30s, in the monotony of long-term relationships, in fun new crushes, and, most importantly, in female friendship.
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May 2, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The first episode comes on a little strong, as the viewer tries to follow the jokes and appreciate the frenetically wild visuals whizzing past (a high-rise building with naked, jiggling breasts?). Further episodes settle down and focus on some themes. ... Nothing gets too heavy, however, as “Tuca & Bertie” remains solidly and successfully committed to its larky nature.
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Jul 11, 2022
Season 4 Review:
If some of the subplots at times can feel rather silly or slight—and sometimes both (see the snake infestation in the season’s third episode)—that is less a critique than an apt description. With its quirky character designs and its even zanier sense of humor, Tuca & Bertie lives in its own rarified animated space where a tree can be an alcoholic and a series of bug-themed baked goods make for great workplace-comedy fodder.
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Jun 16, 2021
Season 2 Review:
A great deal of the show’s appeal, though, lies in that sometimes overreaching ambition, which insists on tackling the difficult topics that exist even within this vibrant and inscrutable universe. In that regard, the series remains genuine and insightful even when it doesn’t always quite succeed.
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May 2, 2019
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