You're Not Laughing Now

Invincible is anything but. What was at one point refreshing and bold about the show now feels forced, repetitive, and positively dull. The dead are all alive again, the family bickers the same point, the lame romance turns toward the obvious, the self-reference lands with a thud; the Invincible formula of blood/hand-wringing/squabble/joke is now remarkable in that the show's writers and animators don't seem to notice that it's gone astray. If there is an overarching point to this series, it's "Trust No One." So if this is how this universe works, why is it so cluttered with busy tertiary characters? The long delays between seasons have proven to be too long. Nothing seems to be holding any of this together.