Close Enough on Netflix

There are a ton of animated series intended for adult audiences on Netflix. It seems as though a new one comes along every week or so and while Netflix does not create most of them (the originate at HBO or some other place) they end up being the home for these series soon thereafter.

While there is a market for this sort of thing I feel as though this genre is just saturated and you need to be something super stellar to stand out. Perhaps that is why I feel so "meh" about Close Enough

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The story behind this is something that has been done before in both live-action and animation: I suppose it is something that a lot of people can relate to as it focuses on a couple in their early 30's who are struggling with accepting the fact that they are no longer young and cool. They try to remain young and hip but are now parents and have adult stuff they have to do.

I think that anyone in their 30's goes though that and for many it might be something that they find humorous but for me I kind of felt as though F is for Family did a better job on the humor front.

They do a lot of "Family Guy" - style transitions where they jump back and forth in time to various situations that are related to the current day story in the show but it's different in the fact that their scenarios are not ludicrous like they are in Family Guy... and I understand why they wouldn't do that because if they DID copy that it would be pointed out immediately.

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The plots of each episodes are not necessarily connected in the 1 season that exists and mostly it is something very common for all younger people: Things like financial anxiety or not really knowing how to be a parent but doing your best anyway. Then every now and then something totally crazy happens such as robot invasions.

For me it was just another link in what I perceive to be a "too big" chain of shows that are all pretty similar in nature.

There isn't that much in the way of reviews for this show on popular review sites. On Rotten Tomatoes for example, there are only 12 reviews and they are all 100%. Anytime that happens I am a bit apprehensive to believe they are genuine.

Should I watch it?

Close Enough has some laughs in it but they don't come often enough. I don't know if this series stands out enough from the plethora of shows out there that are very similar to it. Therefore, I can only say that people might want to have a look at an EP or two and decide for themselves. Each one is only 22 minutes long and like I mentioned, each episode is its own story, so you can just jump in anywhere.

For me, one and half episodes was enough for me to walk away, probably never to return.