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A mixture of drama, comedy, and action, as well as loneliness and discomfort, a homogeneous mixture that represents the feelings of the majority of people in the world after all the difficult events we have lived through in recent years. Carol represents all of us here, She does not care about the boring news of the world, nor do people's parties make her anxious. All that matters to her is that her miserable day ends, no matter how much wasted effort, time, and energy it requires. This is how we have been lately, just waiting for the day to end to wish Sleep well for our family, if we are not alone like poor Carol. You know what, I will not describe Carol as poor after the adventures she went through, I will describe her as strong and intelligent because she not only searched for the meaning of life, but because She showed the bad side of this disgusting world. Yes, we are Carol, and Carol is us.

This is a very unusual animated series. It has arthouse vibes, and it's nice. By the time you're in the second half of the season chances are you'll be into it.

That's also partially because the character of Carol gets less attention.

That character is bringing everything down in the first half. "I don't know" is practically her catchphrase, and the way the voice actress says it got on my nerves more and more. Carol is one of those people who you see at a party, not talking to anyone and looking unhappy., you go and talk to this person because, surely, there must be more than this, and find out there is not. It's okay, but some people just don't run that deep.

And then the show starts to pretend as if Carol always was a very deep person. She preferred to be left alone, she finds people who want to be left alone, she starts to not leave those people alone and she ends up being the hero because every introvert secretly wants to be an extrovert at least a little bit.

No. This show either needs a new main character, or it needs to be an anthology with each episode focusing on new characters and show how their dealing with the end of the world.

I think its a great series. It toon me some time to get in to it but when I did it was really good. There are some problems like the voice acting for the main carter Carol was just awful, at one point she ginds a dead men and there is just no emotions. It worked for the begining of the series where she was kinda going to the motions but at the end it really started to bother me. The series isnt afraid to focus on caracters that arent Carol wich is always fun and I think it really captures the realism of a world ending event. The animation was good and the storry telling was not afraid to do somithing different once in a while. I would recomend it.

I watched it all. The whole thing, because I wanted to be fair in my summation of it.

This series is not in any way enjoyable to watch. It wants to be deep, it REALLY wants to be thought provoking, but the Netflix format just gives it too much room to wander, and this results in the story itself drowning under its own weight.

The series starts very quickly establishing that the world is ending due to an incoming comet, and everyone has basically stopped living their regular lives in an attempt to hedonistically ride out the end. Well...most people, some like our protagonist Carol decide they want to spend the end working to give their aimless lives purpose, and that's where the writing on this series started to lose me.

There are a lot of crazy things people would do with 7 months left to live in the world, but going back to a M-F 9-5 job is not one of them.

There's this weird Animal Farm / cringey "The Onion"dystopian idea by the writer of this show that regular people would just go insane if they couldn't work, but let me tell you, that's just not reality. Not in this scenario.

Speaking of inconsistent writing, at various intervals it's obvious society has broken down and public transportation is gone, yet somehow people are still flying and taking trips. Who is flying these planes? Who is handling the luggage? Who is feeding these people?

The military seems to be the only functioning government body, yet also not, at the same time. The world building is either wildly inconsistent or carelessly discarded.

Carol, the protagonist, is meant to be this audience view of the world, but she's so hopelessly unlikeable. Being a neurotic depressed individual while the world is also ending was already handled by the film "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World" and it was done with more interesting writing in much less time.

Seeing that Carol is so boring, the series attempts to branch out into other characters later in the show, but I didn't like any of those, either. This series feels like one of those late-night Adult Swim "deep thoughts" cartoons that were 10 minutes long. Too bad these were a half hour, getting through almost every one was a huge slog.

I say "almost every one" because the episode where Carol reunites with her sister was pretty decent, I don't know why they didn't stick with that mindset throughout the whole show. By episode 8 when the Somali pirates hijacked the nude cruise (yes this happened) I was about ready to call it quits, yet I soldiered on.

The series itself is also incredibly crudely drawn. When is it "okay" to say animation isn't a style choice, that it's actually bad? Because this one, was bad. All the naked wrinkly people just looked absurd, too, btw. Was that supposed to be funny?

The worst part is that in the end this series is just a bunch of painful stilted dialogue and staring, but is also somehow incredibly pretentious and preachy at the same time (Carol teaches us all that if you just learn people's names, "everything is gonna be okay", barf).

You ever want to watch animated characters just stare at each other? Then this one's for you.

Carol and the End of the World (Netflix) is a limited series (they have a set length planned for the series). It's a mid-life coming of age tale in a world where an otherworldly apocalypse is less than a year away.

There's no classic hero's journey.

Instead, the protagonist is merely awakening to an appreciation of life. She's one person amongst millions but serves as a vehicle for analyzing how real-world society treats itself and the concept of a life well-lived. Lots of cameos including a vignette with Levar Burton.

It will likely fly under the radar for most folks, but it is beautifully understated storytelling.

I think this is a nicely done counterpoint to the type of storytelling in Rick And Morty (a cynical series focused on middle-aged existential crises and the futility of ... everything).

It is very slow pace but god-damn it the idea behind the show is what kept me going, like the world is ending in about 6 mouth? Ah yes, I want to see how everyone going to deal with that. I surprisingly like how monotone the main character is. She made me really appreciate my day-to-day tasks, realizing that someday I won't be able to do them.

Now, that being said... why do we get close shots of her naked parents? Yeah, the joke is that it's the end of the world, everyone is getting naked. But for crying out loud that crap is getting disturbing AND honestly kinds disgusting, like once maybe twice ok no problem, but every god-damn scene that they're in?? And the one thing that completely caught me off guard was in episode 8. Are those pirates supposed to be speaking Arabic? If so, that's kinda racist because they're literally speaking in gibberish, they couldn't hire a single person that can actually speak the language?

Anyway, the show is very smart and relaxing. My favorite character was the captain that left his ship with tens of people after realizing he has been doing his job for 30 years. The idea that you have been mastering your craft for years just for it to end so abruptly is very saddening and depressing.

Other than that, the show is kinda close to the feeling you get after watching BoJack Horseman, but not quiet. It's actually really re-watchable. Recommend watching.

It's not funny, it's not clever, it's not endearing, it's not motivational. It's not deep nor intriguing nor thought-provoking.

It's not an anthology of stories of how different people go about the end of the world, it's not a good study on character development (Carol doesn't care about anyone, not even herself for the first few episodes, then suddenly she cares about her coworkers and a random little kid), it's not social critique, it's not even just a silly show to turn your mind off of things.

The only thing it manages to be is unecessarily boring, because I know the creator could have done something with this premise, but for some reason, like Carol, they chose to do nothing.

DRY HUMOUR for insomniac hobbits.

CAROL AT THE END OF THE WORLD.

NETFLIX. Martha Kelly.

CAROL is a monotone, blasé voice for a droll, sedate cartoon character contending with a world gone mad.

What's most important to carol is being chill. Doing nothing and avoiding excitement. This occurs against the backdrop of citizens going wild living out the last nine months of their lives completing their bucket lists before a planetary apocalypse.

Carol dreams of an uninteresting desk job.

Her aged parents run off with their caregiver.

All kinds of chaos and dramedy occur.

Slowly. Drolly.

You'll be lulled into captivity by voice actor Martha Kelly as her deadpan voice drills a hole in your funny bones and you become gently amused and resolute that anyone can change under the right apocalyptic conditions.