As many TV critics have said recently, it’s the so-called golden age of video game adaptations, thanks to HBO’s and Prime Video’s . However, tabletop games haven’t been given the same due, despite ’ big-budget film last year and Margot Robbie’s promised -style Monopoly film. (A potential remains a pipe dream for board game aficionados).
On paper, Netflix’s adult animation series , based on the hit card game, promises to challenge this. Made in collaboration with the team behind the popular game (its co-creator, cartoonist Matthew Inman, is also one of the showrunners), it’s a -esque adventure series mimicking the game’s same bright colors, cute but evil characters, and violence. It’s amusing, although fans of the original may be disappointed by the lack of connection to its source material.
Instead, entirely new characters join the fray. The show begins with God (voiced by Tom Ellis, best known for playing the devil himself in ) sitting with his feet up at his office in the sky, a.k.
a. Heaven Inc. He’s the textbook image of the all-seeing deity: A big white beard, bushy eyebrows, white suit, and gold tie.
But he’s sassy and swears, and God’s bad behavior hasn’t gone unnoticed. After nearly burning down half of Heaven while making a pizza and destroying unicorns (or “ponies with face boners,” as he calls them), he needs some rehabilitation. As punishment, a council of angels sends him to Earth to sort out humanity and live as one of them.
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