Animation fans this is a review that i've been putting of for a few weeks and well now i'm finally getting down to it and nothing is going to stop me. This is a show that not alot of people know about and given that it airs on SYFY that's to be expected but given how good it is I think that's going to change. This is also one of the few shows that was on my previous animation related post and this is one of the few shows that i've been watching since episode one and so here is my review of Alien News Desk.
There's no plot to this show at all so the basic premise of the show is two aliens called Drexx Drudlarr and a robot called Tuva Van Void present news from a strange species known as humans but they give it an alien twist. I'm not sure if this set up has been done in animation before but I do believe that SYFY themselves once had an alien news show before so it's not new to them but I personally like the set up since i've not seen it before so it's new to me.
Now there are only two cast members credited in this show and they are Will Forte as Drexx Drudlarr and Heidi Gardner as Tuva Van Void. That is honestly the shortest cast list i've had to do for a review and it's honestly annoying because I can usually fill up an entire paragraph just with the actors and who there playing but now I have to think about what to say. I guess it makes sense that there the only two actors credited because this is meant to be a news show after all.
In terms of what I thought about the performances there's honestly really good I mean it is just the two of them talking to each other so of course there going to develop chemistry together. It would have been nice if they added a weather man or a sports person just to really make it feel like a news show and plus it would give me more to freaking talk about but for some reason they don't really do that they do have guest characters come on but that's really it.
The animation was done by Bento Box Entertainment who are also working on the new Adult Swim show Lazor Wulf. I have to say that the animation seen in this show is far better then what's seen in Lazor Wulf but with that being said the animation here due to it's setting and overall premise is very limited and that does make it hard to fully judge the overall quality of the animation since the characters are in one setting and they very rarely stand up.
I've been planning on doing this review for a few weeks now and everytime a new episode came out I always for various reasons would put of doing the review i'd still watch the episode tho i'd just not write the review. This is a show that's really slipping by alot of people a few weeks or maybe months ago I put up on various facebook groups a question asking what people thought of the show and lot of people said that they've not even heard about it. That to me is a sign that the show wasn't even being marketed because I live outside of American I can't get access to the SYFY youtube channel so I have no idea if a trailer for the show was even released.
Like I said part of the reason why i think that people aren't talk about this show that much is that it airs on SYFY and as much as it kills me to say this since they have aired alot of good shows shows that air on there channel / network aren't really talked about as much. Now like I said I live outside of American and i've always had the SYFY Channel so I don't know why more people don't talk about there shows maybe someone who doesn't have the SYFY Channel can help me out here because im at a lost for words.
So far there have been at least eight episodes of the show released from my point of view (i'm not going to say how i'm watching the show tho I will just say im using "Other Methods") and each episode is around thirty minuets so there's nether a long episode. That to me is both the show's biggest strength and weakness it's a strength because if the episode is bad it doesn't really matter because it will be over soon anyways but it's a weakness because if it's good then it'll be over soon and you have to wait another week to see the next episode.
This show is a comedy and like you might have guessed from the premise of the show all of it's humour comes from how our hosts misinterpret things that are happening on earth. I will admit that not all of the episodes can be funny but when they say something that's actually funny it really does work. For me tho the funniest jokes that the show has a long running joke where they pronounce certain countries as there spelt it's a small thing and it could be seen as childish but it gets a smile out of me everytime I hear one.
Overall this can be a funny show depending on the episode but i'd wish that they'd do more with the setting and the premise because it could also mean you get more funny jokes and funny characters. This is a show not meant for little kids I just have to get that out there incase there our parents reading this thinking they can let there kids watch this this show gets a 5.5 out of 10 from me.