Created by Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano and produced by Duplass Brothers Television, Animals focuses on the downtrodden creatures native to Earth’s least-habitable environment: New York City. Whether it’s lovelorn rats, gender-questioning pigeons or aging bedbugs in the midst of a midlife crisis, the awkward small talk, moral ambiguity and existential woes of non-human urbanites prove startlingly similar to our own.
Bedbugs with angst? That does sound like the Duplass brothers. However, with everything else on piling up in my DVR, I may put this one aside for another day.
Update: So now I know. And I think one episode will be enough. I'm not sure a cartoon with animals can truly mask the disturbing events happening on screen, from death by sex to other themes, but I think the witticisms of The Simpsons will suffice for me.
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