I was totally onboard with Happy! in its first few episodes. It struck a wonderfully weird tone of silliness and gritty violence. Further into the season, though, things got a bit too weird to the point where I don’t even understand the rules of this universe anymore. I could accept that Hailey had an imaginary friend who only she and her dad could see, but then it turns out… other people could see Happy, too. And there are actually other imaginary friends who can all talk to each other. And anyone who can see one imaginary friend can see them all. Oh, and apparently people can come back from the dead in this world? And there are possibly aliens at play, too? It’s… it’s too much, man.
Still, I appreciate that a TV show like this exists. In a way, it reminds me of Amazon’s The Tick in that it embraces comic book camp while still reminding you that real-world violence is a thing. The contrast between Nick Sax (aka the dumpster version of The Punisher) and Happy (an overly positive flying unicorn) is pretty great. It’s odd, then, that Happy, who has the show named after him, really isn’t in it that much. There were long periods where I forgot he was even a character. Without Happy, though, the show Happy! runs the risk of feeling like any other crime drama. Well, I suppose the occasional zombie, off-beat joke, or alien bug orgy would say otherwise. So there’s that.
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