Lot of y’all are crazy. This was pretty solid.
Yeah I’d like another season. Preferably with a bigger episode count to help flesh out and better pace it’s characters and moments to help make everything click better. Everything here was so breakneck. It needed allot of breathing room to make character moments and development to elevate better. This is a first season that makes me appreciate good filler in animated series.
But in spite of all that, the well directed, well acted, well sung and composed, and truly engaging series remains good. Scratching many personal itches for me:
1. A musical animated series envoking Menkin Renaissance Disney with the vulgarity of works like Avenue Q or Book of Mormon. All with modern elevations.
2. Macabre aesthetics and sensibilities like prime Tim Burton, Invader Zim, and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
3. The afterlife thematics of post-life redemption and ethical implications and discussions reminding me of The Good Place which is a good thing btw.
All elements when gathered combine to potentially become a possible modern classic.
There’s a real heart and soul to this first season that really makes it stand out. Yeah the vulgarity might be a bit much for a lot of the audiences (I feel it could benefit from either moderation or a more creative aproach) and I can’t really say i blame them if it rubbed him the wrong way. And I feel the humor rarely works. But never grinds it to a halt. But beneath the vulgarity is a real charming adult animated cartoon.
One I’m actually looking forward to future seasons of.
Season 1 Songs Ranked:
1. Ready For This
2. Loser, Baby
3.More Than Anything
4. Poison
5. Stayed Gone
6. You Didn't Know
7. Finale (The Show Must Go On)
8. Respectless
9. Hell is Forever
10. Hell's Greatest Dad
11. Out For Love
12. Inside Every Demon Is A Rainbow
13. Happy Day In Hell
14. Addict
15. Welcome To Heaven
16.It Starts With Sorry
17. More Than Anything (Reprise)
18. Whatever It Takes
19. Inside Every Demon Is A Lost Cause (Alistor's Reprise)
Honorable Mention: I'm Always Chasing Rainbows (Public domain track)