John Carroll

Mediocre at best. Painful satire. It does not "strike the perfect balance of comedy and darkness" as a top review said. I respect their opinion, but with this statement I couldn't disagree more. While watching it I could not help but be aggravated with watching Mark Grayson and his poor decisions, one after the other. It's almost as if he's a teenager born into a highly privileged circumstance. /s. Yes, the writers did a good job intentionally aggravating the audience of which I applaud. Many times have I felt that the pain this show delivers was good. And the balance? What balance. Every time I was led to think something was intentionally painful to watch, I was left with something that I believe was intended to be a reprieve and uplift viewership experience. But instead, I was given awkward, ugly, uncouth, seemingly poorly written interactions and plot points as a way to relieve the pain. No, it just kept being painful. The "comedy" presented was very often a "miss". I felt like I was supposed to be watching a kid's show and something Adult rated simultaneously, which is an interesting feeling, but I'd rather not do it again if it's painfully delivered like Invincible. The humor was child-like, pure and sometimes slice of life; and sometimes it was adult humor, maybe even something dark and twisted -- villainous. This show succeeded in many ways. The best thing it's got going for it is its all-star cast. And all the while I was watching and appreciating the cast's voice acting, at times I couldn't help but think how these actors could possibly go along with some of these horribly scripted scenes. I keep telling myself 'it's awful and it's not worth continuing watching', but I think that somewhere in there, that's it's appeal. That it is is gritty, raw, unpolished even. "Dark"? Yeah idk, I've seen dark and this doesn't invoke nor convey "dark" as it leaves the viewer woefully, naively, optimistic that everything will turn all right in the end. But hey, this is satire.