Magical Girl Friendship Squad

After watching this show I'm not sure what confuses me more, the fact that someone thought that this story worked the way it is written, or the story having been written by anybody to begin with. Nothing flows into the next scene and the art style is incredibly lazy. If you're going to half such lazy designs for the characters at least push above 30 frames per second, this felt like the opening of mad max where there are frames missing or it's just really obvious this was not just made on a small budget, but made by cutting corners.

This little show premiered last night on Syfy. I saw the first episode, it was an interesting start. The show is a huge parody of magical girl shows like Sailor Moon. The best way to describe the show is that it is Tuca and Bertie combined with Sailor Moon. The art style is adorable and reminds me of Craig of the Creek, and the writing is hilariously funny. Alex and Daisy have a great dynamic with each other, and the show is highly empowering and relatable to millennials. I hope to see more episodes soon since the lore seems interesting. This, Final Space, Tuca and Bertie, Primal, Bob's Burgers, Duncanville, Close Enough, and Central Park are my favorite modern adult cartoons.

Seriously, by this point, the attempt of making another "deconstruction" (Curse you, Derrida. And curse you, Gen Urobuchi. And also curse all the people who keeps misusing this term) of magical girl cartoons is just as dull, unoriginal, lazy and stale as making "gritty" superhero deconstructions or "subversive" fairy tales where the prince charming is a jerk and the princess is a badass action hero.

And is also as unoriginal as making stories where Superman (Or a character resembling Superman) is evil.

Seriously, by now "subversive" magical girl shows are the norm, not the exception. Try "deconstructing" something else. (I personally suggest deconstructing trite adult cartoons like this.)

Not funny or clever. More than anything it's preachy and unappealing to anyone that's not "woke"

Overall I tried watching it twice and its easy to say It's very vague and it exagerates the humor which honestly comes out as just bland and unfunny and it tries to be random just for the sake of random. This show tries to make these characters be "spontaneous" but honestly it comes out more of just irritating. Another issue im having is the fact on how they portrait the younger characters and the older characters making them look below them which makes it seem more like a social criticism. There's nothing to look forward to in this series other than more vague humor.