Bee and Puppycat Review
It has been a long road for the cult classic series Bee and Puppycat, and fans of the fantasy-dramedy are now able to return to the whimsical, colorful style of one of the last decade’s most well-known animated webseries. The show was initially conceived as an ambitious crowdfunded project from the animation studio Frederator and creator Natasha Allegri, a veteran from the earlier days of Adventure Time, being funded at the height of its popularity in the 2010s for a series of web shorts. Serving as an expansion and a soft reboot of the property, the new series, Bee and Puppycat: Lazy in Space has recently been added to Netflix, giving fans a chance to revisit the whimsically relatable cult classic.
Bee and Puppycat centers around its protagonist, Bee, a twentysomething who drifts between temp jobs on a pastel fantasy island. When she is visited by a chibi companion, Puppycat, she becomes recruited for a series of cosmos-spanning assignments for a variety of affectionately strange alien creatures. Juggling these whimsically bizarre tasks with the perhaps equally quirky inhabitants of the island, the show’s 16 episodes slowly unfold the larger picture of who Bee is and where Puppycat comes from.
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The series’ tone is nonchalant, whimsical, and relatably comfortable. Its original rendition comes from the zeitgeist of the first half of the 2010s, spinning off as one aspect of Adventure Time’s success alongside Frederator’s other webseries, Bravest Warriors, and the ubiquitously influential Steven Universe from fellow Adventure Time alum Rebecca Sugar. Bee and Puppycat was a definitive part of this 2010s moment, although Lazy in Space’s surrealistic humor and naturalistic tone both give it its own distinct
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