This best and perhaps only good episode in the Voir series is deeply marred by a narration performance that would have underserved a children's Christmas play. Although there is still some disappointingly lazy shortcutting on the episode's subject matter (we're really just boiling visual design to 'appeal' and then even further to 'harmony'? The whole point of a video essay is to make the abstract concrete, not vice versa), the topic of visual appeal in animation is given a great deal more depth than the other episodes of Voir give their subject matter (see episode 3: "unlikeable characters exist for some reason. Film Critic Drew McSweeny does not know why and, in fact, does not even think to ask the question). So it's pretty tragic that this best-written episode of the series has, easily, the worst narration of the series. Taylor Ramos has a lot of interesting things to say but is simply not capable of saying them in front of a microphone in an expressive and consistent manner. Watch on mute with subtitles.
Review of The Duality of Appeal
