Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.

HULU | Release Date: May 21, 2021

7.2	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 33 Ratings

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BigYellow24Jun 25, 2021

Why is this… really good? I had really low expectations for this to be honest, I never liked Robot Chicken much, especially its pop culture parody specials, and I was pretty certain this would go down like Star Trek Lower Decks: trying toWhy is this… really good? I had really low expectations for this to be honest, I never liked Robot Chicken much, especially its pop culture parody specials, and I was pretty certain this would go down like Star Trek Lower Decks: trying to hard to be different from its source material, but in the end feeling like a tonally confused mess with no memorable characters and way too many references that anyone who isn’t a diehard fan won’t care about. And yeah this show starts pretty weak, with a lot of the same predictable humor as the Robot Chicken specials, but not only does the comedy absolutely improve FAST the further you go in the season, but the show also really gets you invested in just about every character, even the original ones and ones based on some of the most obscure silver age comic villains, over the course of the season. Even the show’s pathetic, inept depiction of the villainous MODOK (a character I had no prior knowledge of before this show) becomes shockingly sympathetic, I honestly felt like I wanted to see this random c-list Marvel villain guy to succeed more than I did Loki by the end. And while I don’t want to spoil it, the plot is on par with some of the best DC animated films, and to my knowledge it’s not based on any comic series either! People loved Wandavision for being slightly weird and experimental for a mainstream superhero show, where’s the love for this? So while I’m not sure how likely it is at the moment, here’s to hoping for season 2, I guess…… Expand

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Angel_SighDec 16, 2022

One of the funniest new comedies of the last five years. It's a predictable travesty that Disney cancelled it.

Its main USP is MODOK himself, a massively insecure, egotistical moron/genius and supervillain with a giant head and tinyOne of the funniest new comedies of the last five years. It's a predictable travesty that Disney cancelled it.

Its main USP is MODOK himself, a massively insecure, egotistical moron/genius and supervillain with a giant head and tiny doll-like legs and arms. Played by Patton Oswalt at his most absurdist and deranged, MODOK is a brilliant character. The rest of the cast isn't nearly as charismatic and funny, even the currently ubiquitous Ben Schwartz, who's been good in everything else I've seen him in. He plays MODOK's son, an eminently bully-able teenage boy(who, unfortunately, never becomes remotely funny or likable). One of the stupidest(ie. best) jokes is that MODOK's two kids looks so different, his daughter taking after MODOK and thus floating around as a giant head with floppy rag-doll physics for her lower half, his son taking after MODO's ex-wife, and thus looking completely normal. This joke is never alluded to at any point, it just sits there being absurd. And that is the show in a nutshell, MODOK unleashing a barrage of absurdist narcissism upon everyone around him, while also trying to deal with the agony and depression of a divorce. The latter occasionally serves to make the show quite melancholy, which seems to be the trend with these kinds of animations, eg. Rick and Morty, Bojack, etc. I don't think it quite works here - the tonal whiplash is slightly too much. But it doesn't matter; MODOK/Patton Oswalt is so good that all the little details that don't quite work, from casting to pacing and plotting, are rendered irrelevant. I'd love it if someone picked this show up and gave it another season, but no-one seems to have given much of a sh*t about it being cancelled in the first place, and it's a Marvel property. So...not likely. A real shame.… Expand