Mike Morrison

TLDR: The bad: actors Dr. Singh, Rami, General Abbott and henchmen, and Bear's "army" of Gen Z child 1337 gamers. The good: Narration, photography, music, and actors Gus, Bear (second half of the season she improves,) Jeppard, Pubba, and Aimee. Long Review: Loved this show! Didnt know it was based on a comic. Reading about the comic, it was very dark, and very different from the show. The show itself, was extremely good! Surprusingly very, VERY good! It had a David Attenborough-style narrator. A melodic old man voice by James Brolin. A very friendly, heart-warming, hopeful narration that itself brings a tear to the eye. The photography and setting was excellent. It wasnt a stereotypical dark post-apocalyptic-looking world. Even the ruined still-standing skyscrapers of a dead city, had a light, hopeful feel to it with natural life taking over, and people still alive and thriving. The two lead characters: A part-deer, mostly boy named Gus who is loveable, curious, inventive, and with boundless hope and innocence that easily wins over everyones' hearts he encounters. And Jeppard. A very large, scary-looking black man who was a former professional football player who is suckered into basically adopting Gus as an innocent creature who needs his protection. The acting and characterizations between Gus and Jeppard is very reminiscent of The Gunslinger and Jake in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. I mean the series of 7 books. Not the crappry underwhelming 2 hour movie. Bear is a great addition to the two unlikely travelling companions. With Gus being a totally innocent and extremelt naive character, and Jeppard a dark warrior character coming into redemption, Bear splits the difference between the two. She is the light version of Jeppard. An unlikely warrior herself, who typifies a Star Wars Jedi. Bear and Jeppard end up becoming friends, almost family, with Gus being the "glue" between the otherwise distrustful rivals. While the acting of the three main characters (and Gus's father in the first half of the season) is excellent, some of the more peripheral characters are not. Dr. Singh becomes annoying, and his wife Rami even more so. General Abbot is way too much of a stereotypical bad guy that is almost goofy who surrounds himself with faceless unknown mindless henchmen. The only exception, is one of his leiutenants, with a lot of foreshadowing of his emerging character on the verge of becoming a hero of some sort. A woman who runs a self-styled "preserve" from a zoo, harbors her daughter who is part pig, and who began the process of taking in other hybrid children against her mother's initial wishes. The interactions between mother and daughter is sweet, and the mother easily relents to the idea of rescuing the hybrids. This show deserves the rave reviews its been getting since release. It is extremely uplifting, hopeful, and optimistic as it tells the stories of unlikely heroes navigating a destroyed world; being drawn to one another in coincidental fate. It is a story of good, even dark characters learning to accept redemption, protecting the innocent against overwhelming evil. Nothing about this show (other than the main protagonist General Abbott) feels cheap. Gus and Jeppards's journey together feel real and authentic as they struggle against eachother, and against themselves.