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jaybreezerMay 6, 2019

One of the best new sci-fi stories written in the last 2 decades. Youtuber Olan Rogers built this series from the ground up. Considering I wasn’t a fan of animated series, my high rating says a lot. The entire universe in which this storyOne of the best new sci-fi stories written in the last 2 decades. Youtuber Olan Rogers built this series from the ground up. Considering I wasn’t a fan of animated series, my high rating says a lot. The entire universe in which this story takes place can objectively contend with most classic franchises. There’s just so much content to discover on multiple viewings. Some of the backgrounds are based on actual images taken by Hubble. Strongly recommend checking it out on Netflix.… Expand

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Bkkong95Aug 20, 2019

If you cant handle emotional, exicting, exceptional and funny storytelling and music dont watch it. . . . But
If you like those things watch it!

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TinfaceAug 13, 2019

The greatest show to come around in years! Cleverly mixes drama and comedy, has great animation and voice acting, and has a story that hooks you in from episode one, slowly building in pace until it leaves you breathless. As I write this,The greatest show to come around in years! Cleverly mixes drama and comedy, has great animation and voice acting, and has a story that hooks you in from episode one, slowly building in pace until it leaves you breathless. As I write this, season 2 is 8 episodes in and is looking like worthy successor to the brilliant first season! 10/10… Expand

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pretender5552Sep 27, 2019

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 theSeason 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.… Expand

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kirilpcSep 24, 2019

The start of the season was a bit random but overall the story is fun the jokes are there and the final episode hits you right in the feels. The creator teased season 3 so... fingers crossed!

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phuckoJun 1, 2021

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 aboutFinal 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.… Expand

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gurzicertoOct 21, 2019

Season 2 revisits that eternal question: is Olan Rogers worse at voice acting or writing?

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zedrofekkiOct 21, 2019

If you watched Rick & Morty and thought "Me need dumber show," this is it. For all its careful animation, every joke lands with a thud and every character speaks like a fellow kids meme.

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gar_of_fieldApr 4, 2020

Immensely disappointing. It is a cliché anime and lacks all the humour, subtility and emotions of the first season. Only remains stupid jokes, unlikeable caracters and plot holes. The old caracters lost all charm and dimension and the newImmensely disappointing. It is a cliché anime and lacks all the humour, subtility and emotions of the first season. Only remains stupid jokes, unlikeable caracters and plot holes. The old caracters lost all charm and dimension and the new ones are from some 14 y/o e-girl's roleplay. This **** isn't canon, Final Space ended with Gary's death.… Expand

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TIZDec 3, 2019

Super fun show. It takes some time to get used to the characters and voice acting (i.e. an episode or two). After which characters become lovable and interesting and the final few episodes (of each season, so far) glue you to your seat andSuper fun show. It takes some time to get used to the characters and voice acting (i.e. an episode or two). After which characters become lovable and interesting and the final few episodes (of each season, so far) glue you to your seat and make you binge! I have to admit the second season had a slower and less interesting start. I was a little bit worried until the show really came together in the later half of the season!… Expand