The series' episodes reflect more of the animation we live with through a strong friendship between two 30-year-old women. The series begins with Tuca, an arrogant Toukan, and Bertie, a cocky, uneasy bird, both of whom live in the same residential building. Both of them face daily more comedic events and situations that they try to live with, even though they face different conditions every day.
Tuca and Bertie is similarly messy, weird, and loving-and has the advantage of living in a world without rules. It's a little terrifying - but full of possibility, too.
What really distinguishes the show, though, is Hanawalt's surreal vision, the anarchic fluidity of the landscape, the series's whimsically bending laws of both nature and physics.
The rare hangout show that you'll want to revisit not just to spend more time with the characters, but to comb over every frame for the choice sight gags that you may have missed.
In short order, Tuca & Bertie has become another Netflix animated gem for adults, one that can be placed in a conversation with Bojack, Big Mouth and F Is for Family.
Wilder, lighter, and fluffier than BoJack because it cherishes the absurd and punny. Its strength is its delightful visuals, which teeter from hilariously hipster to Seussian surreality, and pop with more energy than BoJack.
