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- 2023
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2023
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Summary The animated limited series from Dan Guterman follows Carol (voiced by Martha Kelly) during her final days on Earth.
Created By: Dan Guterman
- 2023
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2023
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Carol & The End of The World
Season 1 Premiere: Dec 15, 2023
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7.5
Summary The animated limited series from Dan Guterman follows Carol (voiced by Martha Kelly) during her final days on Earth.
Created By: Dan Guterman
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Generally Favorable
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
79
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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Carol & The End Of The World is funny, yes, and there’s plenty of absurd slapstick; but at its core, this is a patient, meditative series about what it means to be a person living among other people: where we put our attention, what we owe each other, and, most of all, what we owe ourselves.
With tremendous voice work by “Baskets” star Martha Kelly, “Carol and The End of the World” is a beguiling spin on existential dread, surreptitiously celebrating nonconformist thinking in presentation and spirit, even as it plops down our out-of-place leads within a beacon of convention.
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Based on 11 User Ratings
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Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
7.5
73% Positive
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My favorite of the year - so different and fresh from other shows, especially in the animation genre. Makes you think about how we all live, and the institutional and artificial barriers to connection with each other that pervade our society.
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This show's so good! Refreshingly different pace than so many shows, especially animated shows. Somehow manages to get into a slower more thoughtful groove but still made me laugh consistently. A lot of care has obviously been taken to craft this show, the visual storytelling is nuanced and precise, there are so many jokes in the background, little blink-and-you'll-miss-them ideas that enrich the world-building. Overall a great balance between meditating on a profound question about our collective life here and undercutting it with bursts of stupid, funny (and often equally true) bits. Highly recommended!
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Yes, seeing Carol’s elderly parents in the buff, doing the things that throuples do with their burly aide Michael, is funny. But it’s also poignant; even at their advanced age, Carol’s parents are doing the things they never got to do simply because it’s everyone’s last chance. But Carol’s desire for maintaining her routine makes us like her all the more.
It is one of the far too rare works of animation for adults. It still has its own distinct tone and sentimentality that, while occasionally out of balance in some sections surrounding Carol’s parents when they go on a boat, soars when the focus is back on her.
Guterman and his fellow writers, Kevin Arrieta and Noah Prestwich, let the story wander here and there, and their epiphanies can be small-bore; if you’re not on the show’s wavelength, you may find it aimless or mundanely sentimental. But it has a shaggy, slightly ethereal charm and sympathetic characters whose varied reactions to the end of the world ring largely true.
With Gratuitous amount of Nudity throughout the story is sound in a world where people have simply given up on social norms a begin their journey through a world where the Earth only has months before an extinction level event. The Beauty in the story is the comfort in Normal and no matter how normal you want things to be the more they pull you into uncomfortable truths, you are not truly alone. Carol as a protagonist is weak, but as you peel back the layers you get someone extraordinary in the mundane. I found myself connecting more with the ensemble more than the main character, who at times, was uninteresting to say the least. Our obsession with the End of the World rings true in this cast of broken people looking for a certainty in an uncertain time and I would recommend this for folks over that age of 30 who's promise of youth is long gone and finding pleasure in the simple things as the world around them begins to implode.
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Charming yet very dark series that reminds us how little we live our lives because of fear or what people can say. Another great adult animation show by Netflix.
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Expected much more. Renting a house miles from anywhere you expect weird things to happen but do they leave?of course not. The owners show up because ofa blackout in the city. With planes crashing, screaming loud noises,animals behaving strangely, Carol is more interested in quaffing wine and dancing with the owner. Could have been better
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Lars von Trier's Melancholia on the exact same subject is a million times superior to this extremely 'Murican, tedious, facile and mediocre musing on the "imagine the world will end in a year" question.
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I watched only the first episode and that was enough for me. Carol is unlikeable. I get it, she's not the happy-go-lucky person that just wants to do as much as possible before she dies, but my god, how dour do you have to be. You can be hopelessly depressed and I would understand that, but to be so bland and unimaginative as to just sit there and expect the trains to run on time when the world is ending is more boring than I thought it would be. Not for me.
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Production Company:
- Bardel Entertainment
Initial Release Date: Dec 15, 2023
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
