I'm gonna be honest, I wasn't expecting very much. It's not that I doubt James as a creator, it just had a lot of things going against it. Netflix original animated kids shows don't have the best reputation, and neither do youtube originals. But despite all that, I've always liked James's YouTube channel and thought I should give it a fair go. I'm glad I did. It's fun, actually pretty funny, and even has some serialized story elements. The animation is really good too, and I really like how well it balances absurdity with slice of life. Also, despite it being aimed at kids, a couple of the episodes were weirdly dark, if you've seen the show you know what I'm talking about. I wasn't expecting to like Max, just assuming he was gonna end up being the stereotypical brain dead sidekick character, but he actually has some depth and isn't dumb, more just naive. Its not gonna be some super deep experimental masterpiece with 50 seasons and an extensive amount of complicated lore and 736 characters, it's just a fun, well animated and pretty funny kids show that adults can enjoy too. I've noticed that most people giving it bad reviews either haven't seen more than the first episode, or haven't even seen more than 3 minutes of the first episode, while the positive ones watched all of it. James, if you see this, good job. Same goes for everyone else who made it a reality, he couldn't have done it without you folks.
Review of Oddballs
