Good Times (2024– )
7/10
Funny show - not for the faint hearted !
6 May 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Myself as person of color I really enjoyed watching this and was laughing nearly every moment for the majority of the episodes. You can definitely see the inspiration from Family Guy which I liked as I'm a fan of Family Guy as well. There's a lot of good one liners and other jokes thrown in from both the protagonists and background characters. The art and animation style is very unique which most other cartoons don't use.

I particularly enjoyed the side story of Grey and Quan as it does, to some extent show the reality of falling for someone so quickly and then having the rose tinted glasses fall off. Grey's reaction when he gives her the names necklace "I was about to catch a charge for a guy who didn't even know how to spell my name" was hilarious!

Another particularly funny character had to be Dalvin, although he is almost a clone to Stewie being the talking baby who is smarter than the big brother, acts as their wingman and acts like he doesn't need his mom and both Dalvin and Stewie engage in violence with firearms on a regular basis.

The Junior/JR character switch probably disappointed me the most. His character at the start was my favourite, the kid who couldn't perform well academically but had amazing art skills and was a talented basketball player. He was funny and was in his own world amidst all the chaos. However when he became JR his character became very boring and stereotypical. There's plenty of other gangbangers in the show already so what was the point of him becoming one too?

I understand that for some this show could come across as offensive due to the cultural and racial stereotypes, but many adult animations do this and have other situations which some may deem as being inappropriate. However the fact that it's an animation allows for boundaries to be pushed that wouldn't be acceptable in non-animated series.

For me, the major downside is that throughout the series the storylines became more predictable and even lazy - cartoons allow for anything to happen so I was expecting something a bit more exciting and entertaining, but it just becomes a story on the mom being the local president and letting the power get to her head and only realising when her son gets shot.
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