Everyone in the show is just doing their best and encouraging each other along, and everyone is wild and weird in their own idiosyncratic ways. If nothing else, it taps into the Elder Gen Z/Millennial mindset in a way that’s incredibly nurturing and reassuring, hence why it feels like a warm hug. And after such a long wait, I think it’s perfectly understandable why some people are disappointed, and I’m sorry for them that the reboot didn’t live up to their expectations.īut, as with all things, your mileage may vary, and as a writer for this website you are currently reading, I can say with 100% confidence that I think this reboot is absolutely perfect. Others miss the “random chaos” of the pilot (re: “You took too long, now your candy’s gone-that’s what happens! Kablow!“). Some don’t like that Bee isn’t as chubby as she used to be. They believe that it’s too different from the original and that it’s lost its charm, for various reasons. Now, I should probably also address the fact that some fans aren’t happy with the series. In particular, every scene featuring the vain and neurotic Howell (voiced by Kumail Nanjani, who, of course, did a FANTASTIC job!) absolutely cracked me up, and every scene with the stoic fisherman Wesley (voiced by Arin Hanson-a delightful surprise) put an easy smile on my face. All the Wizard Brothers (with the exception of Tim, who, to be fair, seemed to fill the role of the Boring Everyman Brother) absolutely delighted me, and I was so pleased that they took up so much screentime. He quickly skyrocketed to one of my favorite characters, because he finally gets a chance to question why he, a little boy, has to manage a property, instead of play video games and be as silly and frivolous as his peers.īut the new characters only serve to fill the world of Bee and Puppycat even more richly than it already was. The eponymous Bee and Puppycat are still more or less the same-a clumsy but well-intentioned early-twentysomething, and a stinky poo-boy, respectively-while previously established characters, like Cas, Deckard, and Cardamon, are given more unique personalities.Ĭas, for instance ( voiced by my girlcrush Ashly Burch), has shed her generic Big Sister persona for a more defined (and lovingly hilarious) Antisocial Coder Chick attitude, while Deckard (voiced by the prolific Kent Osbourne) has similarly started showing some ‘tude instead of just taking everything on the chin. The art-style is still pretty faithful to the original series, but more fine-tuned, and the characters have similarly been given more distinctive personalities and ideals (whereas before, they were still endearing, but fairly undeveloped). To go back to the cake analogy, this reboot really does feel like I’ve been surprised with cake, AND am being allowed to eat it. There have been so many good projects that just never go anywhere, and Bee and Puppycat was such a one-off experience for so many of us, I had to swallow my hopes for it ever being more than a brief webseries. Of course, a lot of my positivity stems from the fact that I never expected this show to see the light of day, after its on-again, off-again relationship with the internet. The dreamlike quality is still there, the trippyness is still delightfully odd and unique to its own tone, and there is still a subtle feeling of warmth and coziness to the whole thing that, once you realize it’s there, has completely enveloped you. It’s a reboot that somehow hasn’t taken anything away from its source material, instead adding on it, like putting more stars in its already starry galaxy. Indeed, I’ve found the Netflix reboot of Bee and Puppycat to be something of a miracle. To me, bingeing a show like this would have been akin to chugging a gallon of cake and pudding: delicious and sleep-inducing, but too quick to really enjoy what I was doing. However, that proved to be an overly ambitious goal, as well as a naive one: the magic that pulled us into this beloved series in the first place got a hold on me, and instead of bingeing it all in one go, I found myself entranced in its dreamlike state. Originally, I’d intended to finish this article a lot closer to Bee and Puppycat’s Netflix release date (September 6).
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