{"id":978540,"date":"2025-08-22T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=978540"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:35:07","slug":"long-story-short-review-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/long-story-short-review-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Story Short Review: A Worthy BoJack Successor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>\u201cYou do something hard so they know that you love them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are infinite possibilities in play when it comes to animation, yet there\u2019s a comforting universal constant when it comes to family sitcoms \u2013 animated or otherwise. A family provides a natural set of relationships for its characters, but it\u2019s so much more than that. There\u2019s an eternal bond to family, but also a deep sense of alienation. Some people evolve and grow, while others get caught in the same patterns. This is rich material, but it needs to be approached with the right level of curiosity and depth. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/netflix\/\">Netflix<\/a>\u2019s <em>Long Story Short <\/em>is an animated series from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/bojack-horseman\/\">BoJack Horseman<\/a><\/em> creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg, but it feels like it could just as easily be a live-action sitcom due to the grounded realism and mature character development that\u2019s on display.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t<div class=\"ad-dog__cnx-container\"><script id=\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\">\n\t\t\tcnx.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tcnx({\n\t\t\t\t\tplayerId: \"106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t}).render(\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\");\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t<\/script><\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p><em>Long Story Short <\/em>is incredibly funny, both in terms of its storytelling and dialogue. However, there\u2019s a rawness<em> <\/em>that comes to the forefront as it tackles family, religion, life, death, and identity. <em>Long Story Short <\/em>taps into such levels of muted, realistic comedy that it feels like Raphael Bob-Waksberg by way of <em>King of the Hill <\/em>and <em>Boyhood<\/em>. It&#8217;s character-driven storytelling and comedy that gets to the core of what makes the Schwoopers a family \u2013 but also human \u2013 as they grow, age, struggle, and triumph. <em>Long Story Short<\/em> meticulously explores the Schwooper family tree, branch-by-branch, as it matures from a modest seedling into a mighty forest. It\u2019s a brilliant, innovative family sitcom that feels like the genre\u2019s evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The series follows matriarch Naomi Schwartz (Lisa Edelstein), patriarch Elliott Cooper (Paul Reiser), and the Schwooper ancestry that they\u2019ve built together. Avi Schwooper (Ben Feldman) is frequently positioned at the center of <em>Long Story Short\u2019s <\/em>plotlines, but the entire family gets their due and there are plenty of stories where Avi is kept on the sidelines and is just a fleeting presence instead of the episode\u2019s focus. Avi and Shira (Abbi Jacobson)\u2019s brother-sister relationship is also a strong moral compass for the series\u2019 storytelling and one of <em>Long Story Short\u2019s<\/em> most satisfying and entertaining dynamics. There\u2019s a real sense of history there, much of which the audience gradually learns over time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yoshi (Max Greenfield) certainly has a Todd from <em>BoJack <\/em>quality to his hijinks, but he\u2019s far from a carbon copy. Yoshi is the stunted black sheep Schwooper sibling who struggles to spread his wings and fly, yet his episodes often hit the hardest and have the biggest payoff. Despite its large cast, no character is expendable in <em>Long Story Short. <\/em>Everyone receives at least one worthy showcase episode and they all continue to gain depth in rewarding ways as the season progresses. The entire cast provides strong vocal performances and nobody comes across as a one-dimensional caricature. They all sound very at home in <em>Long Story Short\u2019s <\/em>universe and like they\u2019re actually family, which is crucial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The central \u201cgimmick\u201d to <em>Long Story Short<\/em>, if you can call it that, is that each episode chronicles different years of the Schwooper family\u2019s life for roughly three decades, between 1991 and 2022. This gives <em>Long Story Short <\/em>tremendous room to play around in with the parameters that it sets for itself. <em>Long Story Short <\/em>features a large cast of characters, which would be enough to keep track of on its own, but all this becomes considerably more skillful when <em>Long Story Short<\/em> also juggles stories that are told across multiple decades. Despite how these timelines follow many of the same characters, they sometimes come across as completely new individuals because of how much time has passed between storylines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This really becomes a masterclass in plotting as simple ideas that are referenced from one year become the subject of entire storylines in other timelines from future episodes. There are so many plates spinning at any given time, even if the audience doesn\u2019t necessarily realize that these plot points will later become crucial. It\u2019s an ambitious, exhausting exercise in character development that forces the audience to fill in blanks and make presumptions that are later confirmed or crushingly subverted. It\u2019s a major risk that puts tremendous pressure in the success of these payoffs. <em>Long Story Short <\/em>is fortunate enough to stick the landing in this department, but it\u2019s also very careful to make sure that each episode still stands on its own and tells a complete story, even if it\u2019s still a piece of a much greater whole. It\u2019s a truly genius way to reflect cyclical habits and generational cycles that deconstruct characters on such a broad and expansive timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Long Story Short <\/em>makes this structural spectacle look simple and each episode is largely set during a singular year, while a prologue \u2013 and sometimes an end tag \u2013 takes place in different years to help thematically bookend the story. This is quite impressive in the sense that <em>Long Story Short <\/em>doesn\u2019t just juggle stories and character development that plays out across multiple years, but there\u2019s also a sprawling cast with ever-changing relationships to consider. <em>Long Story Short <\/em>leapfrogs between major life events. This initially feels a little chaotic, but it soon feels natural and gets the most out of this layered storytelling. There are certain story fragments that get lost in the shuffle and don\u2019t necessarily need to be present, but they all contribute to the greater Schwartz\/Cooper\/Schwooper tapestry. It highlights how family &#8212; figuratively and literally &#8212; lives on through legacy and traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Long Story Short <\/em>is beautiful, empathetic, and endlessly life-affirming. It\u2019s also devastating. <em>Long Story Short <\/em>is certainly less cynical than <em>BoJack Horseman<\/em>, but there\u2019s a melancholy atmosphere of abandoned dreams that are suffocated by fear and apathy. <em>Long Story Short<\/em> still hits the same unflinching emotional heights as Bob-Waksberg\u2019s previous classic. However, it lacks a silly, anthropomorphic filter that takes the edge off. <em>Long Story Short <\/em>hones and perfects these sensibilities to really cut into some gutting stories that prove that Bob-Waksberg is still the king of this style of black comedy and episodic storytelling. The fights that break out are so damn real, biting, and they go a little deeper than they should. <em>Long Story Short <\/em>isn\u2019t afraid to present its characters as flawed or push them to tragic places, but it always feels natural and a symptom of the storytelling instead of manipulative attempts to make the audience feel something.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the characters and storytelling in <em>Long Story Short <\/em>that leave the greatest impressions. That being said, the series\u2019 creative art design gives <em>Long Story Short <\/em>a real personality. It\u2019d be easy for this team to copy the look of <em>BoJack Horseman <\/em>and <em>Tuca &amp; Bertie<\/em>, but <em>Long Story Short <\/em>avoids this temptation. The series\u2019 animation style is deeply stylized and it has such a distinct energy that\u2019s the perfect look for this rough around the edges family. It has the look and aura of a comic strip that\u2019s been brought to life. 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Those who are looking for earnest, honest, and absurd slice-of-life family storytelling that expands on an epic scale will love <em>Long Story Short<\/em>. It has what it takes \u2013 and decades of stories to pull from \u2013 to become Netflix\u2019s next big animated hit in a post-<em>Big Mouth <\/em>world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>All 10 episodes of Long Story Short are available to stream on Netflix now. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou do something hard so they know that you love them.\u201d There are infinite possibilities in play when it comes to animation, yet there\u2019s a comforting universal constant when it comes to family sitcoms \u2013 animated or otherwise. 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