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Netflix's Farzar Is One Of The Worst Animated Shows In Years | TV/streaming



Farzar, you see, is the name of the distant, Eternia-esque planet on which our story is set, where the chiseled, flax-haired hero Renzo (Lance Reddick) has established himself as Tsar after defeating an alien invasion and marrying the "slightly older" (read: withered and decrepit) Queen Flammy (Grey Griffin).

But that also means playing daddy for 30-year-old failure Fichael (Dana Snyder), who never left the protective dome of their Edenic city. After all, it's the only thing that protects them from the evil machinations of the Skeletor-esque Bazarack (also Snyder). (In an early omen of the show's sort of humor, the central spire is, in fact, a gilded futuristic phallis.)

When Fichael turns 30, Renzo reluctantly makes him a general and puts him in charge of the (long, ominous gasp here) SHAT Squad and his team of misfits - Fichael's robotic BFF Scootie (Jerry Minor), a cyborg whose only remaining human part is his dick; Conjoined twins Mal and Val Skullcrusher (Kari Wahlgren), a gray commando and sensitive mother type, respectively; Barry Barris (David Kaye), Farzar's top scientist and a lazy hodgepodge of Rick Sanchez and Dr. Krieger from “Archer”; and his creation Billy, a mashup monstrosity of a bunch of different animals just not intelligent enough to masturbate in public.

O'Guin and Black are the creators of 'Brickleberry' and 'Paradise PD', so if you're familiar with those series, you'll know what to expect. Episodes are less plotted or scripted than vehicles for the same sophomore dick, fart, or poop joke; characters are little more than mouthpieces for their one character trait/basic joke. Fichael is an unconscious male child, Bazarack is a brutal camp queen of a villain, Barry is an amoral, perverted genius, rinse, repeat. You know these jokes because they will explain them to you again and again in dialogue.


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