Tuca & Bertie

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Season 1
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 50 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 50
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 50
  3. Negative: 8 out of 50

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  1. Mattyice
    May 4, 2019
    8
    If you go into this show completely separating it from Bojack, you're bound to find a good time. It's art style is great (noticeably improved from Lisa's work on Bojack) and surreal, making it stand out from other adult cartoons. It's humor is not as consistent, but overall works pretty well and is pretty raunchy. Overall, a pretty good followup from the team behind Bojack and definitelyIf you go into this show completely separating it from Bojack, you're bound to find a good time. It's art style is great (noticeably improved from Lisa's work on Bojack) and surreal, making it stand out from other adult cartoons. It's humor is not as consistent, but overall works pretty well and is pretty raunchy. Overall, a pretty good followup from the team behind Bojack and definitely see some decent long term potential in this series.… Expand
  2. Marcelo_Lima
    May 4, 2019
    10
    This Series is Funny and have a lot detailed visual gags - I had to pause countless times to absorb everything and I wasn't high hahahaha Recommended!
  3. thenffc
    May 6, 2019
    2
    not funny- pretentious millennial crap.....................................
  4. VirgoCave
    May 5, 2019
    5
    This Is a "girl power comedy" + a light version of Bojack Horseman , with 10% of its nihilism.

    Most of the character´s issues are solved on the first season with a happy ending.

    Characters are charming but some messages are confusing or contradictories.

    Lacks the art direction that bojack has, but is simple and funny to watch.
  5. manningn15
    Jul 26, 2021
    10
    Just finished the first season of Tuca & Bertie and I love this show. The writing is outstanding, it's funny and the way they address adult and difficult subjects like anxiety and sexual assault is just exceptional doing with a beautifully sensitive touch. The acting is superb especially from Tiffany Haddish, Ali Wong, Steven Yeun, Nicole Byer, Jane Lynch, Amber Ruffin, Adam Conover,Just finished the first season of Tuca & Bertie and I love this show. The writing is outstanding, it's funny and the way they address adult and difficult subjects like anxiety and sexual assault is just exceptional doing with a beautifully sensitive touch. The acting is superb especially from Tiffany Haddish, Ali Wong, Steven Yeun, Nicole Byer, Jane Lynch, Amber Ruffin, Adam Conover, Jenifer Lewis, Reggie Watts, John Early, Laverne Cox, Shamir, Richard E. Grant, and Awkwafina. The animation is phenomenal, I love the style. The music is great. An A+ season first season.… Expand
  6. kirkender
    Jun 26, 2019
    9
    Tuca and Bertie is a breath of fresh air in the world of animation. Not only is the art direction and animation some of the most inventive and exploratory in decades, but the amazing weirdness is balanced with intimate human stories. MORE PLEASE.
  7. ArcanaThe4th
    May 25, 2019
    8
    Unlike its sister series, Bojack Horseman, Tuca and Bertie goes mach 5 with the bizarreness in a world where anthropomorphic animals, humans and plants live together, but it doesn't foregos deep characters or the exploration that comes with it.
  8. Davrosdaleks1
    Jul 1, 2019
    6
    This is about a couple bird friends, who live in a world of anthromporphic plants and animals. (To clarify: this isn't in the world of Bojack Horseman. The creator Lisa Hanawalt had been a production designer on that show). Only got through an episode and a half. I wasn't feeling it, but I can see how others would like this.

    To it's credit, the world of the show was pretty creative.    This is about a couple bird friends, who live in a world of anthromporphic plants and animals. (To clarify: this isn't in the world of Bojack Horseman. The creator Lisa Hanawalt had been a production designer on that show). Only got through an episode and a half. I wasn't feeling it, but I can see how others would like this.

    To it's credit, the world of the show was pretty creative. It's a surreal place, one example being snake subways. Animation is entertainingly quirky.

    There are some jokes that were pretty funny, but I felt they were too far apart. A lot of jokes felt a little off-kilter and didn't land with me.

    Wasn't the biggest fan of Tuca (Tiffany Haddish). She's supposed to be that rude, self-involved person that you're supposed to end up rooting for because she's a good friend. Yeeeeaaaaahhhh... I'm so tired of that sort of character. It kind of rationalizes bad behavior.

    Again, I'm saying this wasn't my thing. I don't think it's necessarily a bad show in general. I'm a guy and this was from a female creator, with female leads, and with a female voice, and I don't think I was the target audience. Hanawalt has a specific voice and I wish her show the best of luck.    … Expand
  9. JPK
    Jun 19, 2019
    9
    Really Good
    It’s no Bojack Horseman, But this show’s still great to watch in general.
  10. ArturReview
    May 7, 2019
    9
    Way better than I expected. It only gets better, with a smart comedy mixed in some not so light themes about family, relationship and other issues.
  11. All_ButTrU4
    Dec 18, 2021
    7
    Lot's of funny gags. Very honest and absurd. A great exploration of young adult hood and trauma through the lense of female friendship.
  12. the-airbud
    May 10, 2019
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What the show does well is build strong arcs for the two titular characters, and then weave those two stories together as the show progresses. Rich backstories and evenly-paced exposition help Tuca and Bertie become deep and likable characters by the end of the season. The show is very enjoyable, especially toward the second half, and provides quality humor throughout.
    However, the show is not without its flaws. Secondary characters, for the most part, are reduced to a single comedic trait. Speckle and Pastry Pete are the only non-title characters to do more than one thing (no exaggeration, you can explain every other character in five words or less). And it's not like these guys really bring much to the table either - they're just around for longer than anyone else. Pastry Pete is a sleazy man in power who spends most of the show talking about baking and getting inappropriate with his female apprentices; he's given absolutely zero backstory so we're left to feel like he's a scumbag just to drive the plot forward. Speckle (who also has no backstory) is an equally lazy character. They basically just borrowed Mr. Peanutbutter from BoJack, took away all the charisma and wackiness, and made him extremely responsible. He's a really nice guy who's always trying to help but gets frustrated by Bertie's inconsistent behavior. There's not much more to him - he's in every episode, but mostly just as a plot device in Bertie's story arc. Then he creates a big move in the final couple episodes, which finally brought some life into the character and provided a potentially interesting rise in tension to end the season and begin the next. But in the last episode they basically just erased the decision and fed a happy ending to all the BoJack fans who decided to check out the series. Maybe they're not planning on making another season, but it feels like they wanted a conclusive ending so badly that they forced one out of a story that wasn't headed in that direction. The show certainly wasn't ruined, but it was disappointing to see some story arcs quickly wrapped up, when leaving them open could have been a solid foundation to a plot we thought was expanding.
    Tuca & Bertie is worth watching for any BoJack fan. It provides a familiar style of humor and a compelling central story arc driven by excellent main characters. As a stand-alone series, it shows promise that the team behind BoJack can continue to make their unique style work, this time without a voice acting super-team. But you have to look at everything in context, and Tuca & Bertie is clearly a show created patch a hole in the calendar where there's a big gap between new seasons of Netflix's marquee shows. After finishing the final episode of Tuca & Bertie, I immediately looked up release date for season 6 of BoJack. It's like watching the preseason in a sports league; it's a lot of fun after several months of nothing, but you know it's not the real deal.    … Expand
  13. Jurorno8
    May 22, 2019
    9
    I really enjoyed the change of pace from Bojack. I really like the slow burn humor of Bojack but this show does things at 100mph and it turns out I enjoy that too. But similarly to Bojack it often deals with real situations, real emotions. I highly recommend

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#51 Most Discussed TV Season of 2019

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Kate Abbott
    Dec 4, 2019
    80
    In comedy terms it’s more rolling chuckle than laugh-out-loud, and there are sometimes slightly jarring shifts in animation to lo-fi claymation or even sock-puppet styles. Those aside, this is a chirpily realised world that stays true to its experimentalism – and its pleasures are consistent, if deliciously twisted, and very surreal indeed.
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  2. Vanity Fair
    Reviewed by: Sonia Saraiya
    May 8, 2019
    90
    Tuca and Bertie is similarly messy, weird, and loving [as Broad City]—and has the advantage of living in a world without rules. It’s a little terrifying—but full of possibility, too.
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  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Danette Chavez
    May 6, 2019
    91
    Tuca & Bertie takes some time to find its rhythm, but once it does, it soars. Guest stars like Nicole Byer (who is a repertory company unto herself), Laverne Cox, Isabella Rossellini, Reggie Watts, and Awkwafina (as the Time’s Up-chanting breast) make an indelible impression, but Haddish and Wong’s performance are just as singular and key to the show’s success as Hanawalt’s surreal flourishes.
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