Mild spoilers below for the animated series Long Story Short for anyone who hasn’t yet streamed the comedy via Netflix subscription.
Long Story Short is the aptly named new animated comedy from Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the mastermind behind one of TV’s all-time best sitcoms, BoJack Horseman, though it is more readily comparable to the weepy hourlong drama This Is Us than the anthropomorphic celebrity-skewing satire. The laughs are evident and plentiful, don’t get me wrong, but the timeline-spanning narrative device allows for a deeper sense of pathos than ‘toons usually provide, allowing audiences to become one with the dysfunctional Schwooper family.
