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Amazon’s new animated comedy Fairfax is a fittingly ephemeral thing, more amusingly silly than deeply funny. It’s visually energetic, humorously frantic and populated by an exceptional voice cast. It’s much more invested in endless name-dropping than in being consistently substantive, but it does a good job of simultaneously respecting and mocking the world it’s depicting.
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After several episodes, the pursuit of impressing others came to feel insufficient as a guiding principle. Because the characters’ relationships are minimally developed — Dale’s effectively plopped into a pre-existing friend group and immediately adopts their interests — the quest for status is the guiding light, and the bond that unites. And that’s not quite enough.
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Fairfax feels like a show you put on as background noise while you scroll your phone. It’s as fleeting and insubstantial as a 280-character tweet, a brief blip of a joke that you laugh at and immediately forget.