When the show first came out, I gave it a shot and wasn't that fond of it. I was looking at it through the wrong lens because I hadn't seen Harvey Birdman (can ya blame me? It ended when I was 2). Thank God for HBO Max. I binged all of season 1 in one sitting and had a blast. So I went back to Birdgirl, having seen Harvey Birdman.
Reevaluating the show, I'm still not particularly the biggest fan of it, and actually have a few more criticisms of it, but I don't think it's *that* bad, definitely not as bad as everyone else says. It's just....there.
The animation is okay, and certainly replicates the limited animation feel of the original. It's just that the humor does not hit, and I felt it was too long. Harvey Birdman is quick and bingeable because of the 11-minute episodes, meaning that there's no time for dawdling, we have to get the story and jokes in go go go, and it accomplished that excellently. Birdgirl doesn't do that because it's 22 minutes.
And although this is a relatively minor complaint, it's still a pet peeve - the show has no theme song and just had a title card. I'm sick of these lazy title cards and lack of theme songs I've been seeing in some recent cartoons. Bring back banger theme songs.
The least I can say is that Judy Ken Sebben is charming, and the pilot episode did have an emotional moment when she realizes that her deceased father wasn't a good father at all. This shows that the series does have potential, but has yet to fully realize it.
Reevaluating the show, I'm still not particularly the biggest fan of it, and actually have a few more criticisms of it, but I don't think it's *that* bad, definitely not as bad as everyone else says. It's just....there.
The animation is okay, and certainly replicates the limited animation feel of the original. It's just that the humor does not hit, and I felt it was too long. Harvey Birdman is quick and bingeable because of the 11-minute episodes, meaning that there's no time for dawdling, we have to get the story and jokes in go go go, and it accomplished that excellently. Birdgirl doesn't do that because it's 22 minutes.
And although this is a relatively minor complaint, it's still a pet peeve - the show has no theme song and just had a title card. I'm sick of these lazy title cards and lack of theme songs I've been seeing in some recent cartoons. Bring back banger theme songs.
The least I can say is that Judy Ken Sebben is charming, and the pilot episode did have an emotional moment when she realizes that her deceased father wasn't a good father at all. This shows that the series does have potential, but has yet to fully realize it.