Ricky Gervais Hits New Low With Pathetic Netflix Series
The Daily Beast • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Ricky Gervais’s new Netflix animated series Alley Cats has been criticized for its laziness, lack of nuance, and reliance on offensive language, marking a decline from his earlier, more acclaimed work.
- The show attempts to explore themes like atheism and nihilism but does so with heavy-handedness and trite slogans, failing to deliver meaningful or original humor.
- Voice performances by the cast, many of whom are Gervais’s regular collaborators, come across as bored and uninspired, detracting from the show's overall impact.
- Alley Cats recycles familiar musical choices and relies on shock value that feels outdated compared to more innovative adult animations like Bojack Horseman or Kevin.
- While avoiding overt anti-woke rhetoric common in Gervais’s recent stand-up, the series still features politically incorrect jokes but shows signs of the creator’s increased self-awareness and maturity.
