Adult animated series has seen a significant increase in popularity in recent years, and their content is becoming increasingly adult-only. Adults enjoy shows like Bob’s Burgers, Archer, and F is for Family, although more modern and raunchy shows like Big Mouth and Human Resources are also popular.
Fairfax animated series
Fairfax follows a group of middle schoolers named Dale, Truman, Derica, and Benny as they try to gain status, clout, and originality on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles.
The TV show mostly relies on Hypebeast culture and nostalgia to build its imprint, hitting on many identifiable beats and experiences from coming-of-age comedy. Fairfax’s bold approach to common themes puts it in the strong company on Prime Video, where it joins a slew of other well-received animated series.
The animated comedy stars Skyler Gisondo, Kiersey Clemons, Peter S. Kim, and Jaboukie Young-White, as well as an all-star voice cast. Fieri, Billy Porter, Zoey Deutch, Camila Mendes, Yvette Nicole Brown, Annie Murphy, Ben Schwartz, Michael Rooker, Edi Patterson, Rob Delaney, David Strathairn, Pamela Adlon, and John Leguizamo are among the cast members of the second season.
When it premiered in October 2021, the comedy show was welcomed with critical acclaim. It was praised as intellectual, funny, and an accurate assessment of today’s trend-obsessed culture. It was also lauded for being a razor-sharp, contemporary, and pertinent satire.
Peter A. Knight, Jon Zimelis, Jason U. Nadler, Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynoski, and Ben Kalina act as executive producers. Some hoodlum, an artist, an animator, is also on board as a consulting producer, as is Pizzaslime, a pop/internet culture clothing, and media company.
Season 1 followed Dale, a newcomer to town, as he met his people in middle school and embarked on a journey to become influencers.
The first season ended with Dale, Derica, Truman, and Benny returning from a successful day touring Latrine’s head-of-operations with their hero Hiroki, only to discover the block’s new obsession with “Off-Brian,” a brand created by Hiroki’s former employee Brian, after a global search for golden Doritos and ruthless school spirit political campaigns.
Fairfax has taken comedic jabs at clout culture and celebrated the Gen Z community’s inclusive nature through storylines that are relatable to anyone who has ever been a teenager since its inception, produced by Emmy Award-winning animation production studio Titmouse (Midnight Gospel, Star Trek: Lower Decks) and artist Somehoodlum. As a result, a school dance had to take place.
It is employed because it is an excellent approach to bringing everyone together to wrap up loose ends.
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New episodes and what to expect from them
The joy of all of it nicely bled into the press for the second season. A battle between Latrine and Off-Brian supporters rages in the upcoming season. Meanwhile, Truman’s AI lover threatens to break up the squad, causing the four ride-or-die comrades to split up.
Diabolical AI girlfriends, a town split by a Latrine and Off-Brian war, dodgeball to the death, bathroom fires, dragon-riding, skydiving, werewolf Derica, an apparently dead Principal Weston, and a school dance mixed in the mix As pals Dale, Derica, Truman, and Benny begin a new year of romantic relationships and sexual discovery, the 8-episode second season of Fairfax, which premieres on Prime Video on Friday, June 10, is pulling out all the stops with no holds barred.
When Principal Weston, a typically despised authority figure, is reported to be assumed dead, the second season tackles the incredibly timely theme of “performative sorrow.
In Fairfax, how does performative sorrow present itself? Principal Weston is, without a doubt, someone that everyone despises. When he dies, it becomes a race to see who loves him the most, who loved him the best, and who had the finest relationship with him.
A school dance would be a terrific way to close the season wondering, ‘Will they come back together to address a much larger problem?’
The show’s writers, including Shana Gohd from Archer, Evan Waite from Family Guy, and Peter Knight (also an executive producer) from BoJack Horseman, are credited for the majority of the show’s story success, according to the three creators.
“Having such a strong writers’ room and bringing on writers who are way cooler and way more tapped into the world than we are,” says Buchsbaum.
Fairfax’s artists, as well as consultant producer Somehoodlum, are praised for their meticulous attention to detail and subtle gags hidden in cleverly designed posters, tattoos, signage, and t-shirt images.
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Why you should watch this animated series
All of this talk about ‘culture,’ however, always comes back to those visceral emotions you felt as a youngster. The filmmakers are putting their own twist on it and letting it breathe and marinate in the Fairfax universe.
It allows you to explore all of that material and have fun with it, as well as have a dialogue about it, while also allowing you to chuckle at the fact that, once again, this girlfriend is a result of Welch’s attempt to market to children.
With everything in the show, Teddy Riley, Matthew Hausfater, and Aaron Buchsbaum always came at it from a perspective of half love, half poking fun. And as long as they stick to both sides, they usually end up in the right spot.
They have amazing board artists and background designers and character designers that turn everything up to 11 and make things so funny.
It’s a show that begs to be watched again and again. There are so many visual jokes. There are so many sound jokes that the filmmakers packed as much as they could into it. The fact that people even spot those little things that come and go in a second is so rewarding and exactly why they do it.
This season, fans will be treated to even more Somehoodlum hue eye candy. For example, Hiroki’s mind palace in Episode 6 is insane, and there’s a flea market episode with a massive musical performance at the start that is visually stunning.
There are some incredible visual sequences. One of Somehoodlum’s finest talents as an artist is knowing what colors go well together, and whether it’s as huge as the entire world of the show or as small as the shade of pink that anything should be, he’s a fantastic collaborator.
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Conclusion
With Season 2, Fairfax animated series creators have created and then dismantled many sandcastles in their sandbox of storytelling, from getting to dive into previously lower part characters from the first season to exploring the bounds of teen angst arcs.
Despite needing to go through COVID and rearrange their production pipeline, Hausfater, Buchsbaum, and Riley believe it’s been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You can easily binge-watch this series in one sitting because each episode is between twenty and twenty-five minutes long.
If you like animations like Big Mouth, Rick and Morty, F is for Family, Bob’s Burgers, Disenchantment, and Brickleberry, I’d recommend this series, but you might want to go back and watch them instead.
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