Well then cartoon fans it's so rare that I get to bring you a review of a Netflix series that I was actually looking forward to seeing and that's actually really good but here we are so here is my review of Disenchantment.
The premise of the show is Bean a rebellious princess , Elfo an Elf and Luci her personal demon get into all sorts of adventures. Now I know that this series sounds episodic and for a while that's how I would have described but you have to see a good chunk of the episodes because there are small story details thrown into each episode and I honestly thought that the pacing for each episode was really freaking good.
Starring in the show are Abbi Jacobson as Bean , Eric Andre as Luci , Nat Faxon as Elfo , John DiMaggio as King Zøg , Tress MacNeille as Queen Oona and a bunch of other characters , Matt Berry as Prince Merkimer and Sharon Horgan as Queen Dagmar.
Casting wise the show did a great job because after the first or second episode I couldn't imagine anyone else playing these characters and it helps that the actors are really good in the show there are performers who you expect great performances from those being John DiMaggio and Tress MacNeille but as someone who hasn't heard of Abbi Jacobson I was surprised at how good she was in this show.
The animation was done by Rough Draft Studios who also animated shows like Futurama , Drawn Together and who's sister studio Rough Draft Korea animated a little known show called The Simpsons and I have to say that the animation in this show is honestly pretty good I couldn't think of a single time where there was an odd looking drawing or thinking that something would have been better if they took another crack at it.
In terms of character design to me that's where the show fails a little because they look like the typical characters that Matt Groening would draw so they don't really standout honestly you could just recolor Beans skin yellow and she would look like a Simpsons character and speaking of which Elfo totally looks like Bart except colored green with more hair and he wears a hat.
When this show was announced it was announced with a two season order and after watching how episode 10 ends I want the second season right now because I have to know what happens next that's how good this show is and when I normally do a series review I would usually watch a handful of episodes but because I fell so much in love with this show and it's characters I ended up watching all ten episodes and I don't regret a single moment of it.
After doing some research i've come to the conclusion that this is also a Futurama reunion for some of the producers and cast since both Tress MacNeille and of course John DiMaggio starred in the show but in terms of the producers Matt Groening , Josh Weinstein , Bill Oakley and the mad genius that is David X. Cohen reunite for this show but there not the only team to get back together as several writers and directors from The Simpsons also work on this show.
In all honesty I wasn't expecting this show to be as graphic as it was I knew that since it was going to be on Netflix it would be a little more mature but even so I was still shocked we see limbs get chopped off alot there's sex jokes and alot of blood I have no idea what the official rating is for the show but in my eyes it should be at least either TV 14 or MA but that's just me.
Alot of animated shows don't really have good continuity they won't reference past events or anything of the sort but this show does it alot there are times when a character would do a call back to a previous episode and instead of it being used as a joke it would be used to show us how far the characters have grown and it would also be used to advance some things story related as well.
For me at least the jokes in this show were really freaking funny for the most part I was laughing at least three or four times an episode there was even a Goldfinger joke in there which I loved because that is my all time favorite James Bond film but tho the jokes don't come as much in episodes 9 and 10 and I think that's good because those shows have a lot going on in them so stopping to tell a joke wouldn't work and just to give you all some friendly advice when watching this show read the signs trust me you will no regret it at all.
Overall this is such a good show I cannot wait for the next episodes to come out which is hopefully soon because this show is so damn good and so funny but it does have it's fair share of problems so it gets an 7.5 out of 10 from me.