Nubian vs Nubian

Typically, the "Boys Universe" gets away with its excesses by having a point to its gruesomeness, but Nubian vs Nubian has no point. Instead, it offers meandering plot involving an adrenalized couple who seem incapable of physical attraction unless bathed in violent activity. Perhaps this can be extended to a critique of consumerism, but hasn't this already been done ad nauseam? And if a critique is meant, it isn't backed up by the through-line of the episode, which is more about a hateful world with hateful characters and hateful children and hateful morals. This, too, could have had something poetic to its bathos if it at least managed to be funny, which it wasn't.

Sure, the tastelessness is there: the gore, the perversity, the vulgarity - but these are just splashes of color on asphalt, lacking the momentum, wit, characterization and meaning that can often surprise us from this show. Instead, Maya's situation as merely a cheap punchline, as if a cycle of child abuse and cruelty warrants nothing more.

Not a great episode, not an awful one. Just before the ending, it has some funny moments, but the end itself is kinda boring.

The only real complaint I have it that, for some reason, the animation on this episode is really sloppy. Very choppy and not fluid at all. Kinda looks like it was made by an amateur, some of the time.

'Nubian Vs Nubian (2022)' is an obvious riff on 'Kramer Vs Kramer (1979)', a short in which two superheroes undergo marital issues to the dismay of their daughter. When the young girl decides to take matters into her own hands, things quickly take a turn for the violent. It's an entertaining enough experience, but it just feels like it lacks something overall. Its ending, for example, is pretty limp and doesn't feel like a proper culmination to the themes and ideas established earlier on. Still, the piece is well-acted and looks as good as any of the others in its series. It's decent enough for what it is. There isn't much else to say, really. 6/10.

If the previous episode of "Diabolical" was a true low point for the series, then this episode, whilst unmistakably better, is still a touch below what we've seen in some of the previous episodes.

Two Superheroes, Nubian Prince (Don Cheadle) and Nubia (Aisha Tyler) meet and fall in love whilst taking down fallen superhero Groundhawk (John DiMaggio). Several years later, with their marriage at the point of divorce, their daughter Maya (Somali Rose) tries to reunite the pair by convincing Groundhawk to come out of retirement, pretend to kidnap her and try to rekindle the old romance.

With a solid traditional art style and excellent vocal performances, again I'm afraid where this one fell down for me was with the story. The premise is fine but the story, particularly it's ending was a bit underwhelming. I also don't remember finding it particularly funny.

It's not a disaster but I can't imagine I'll ever chose to watch it again.

This one actually feels like The Boys and is way better than episode 5. At first i thought it was gonna ne a boring episode, but as soon as they hit you with the divorce i started really liking it.