"Everybody got to evelate from the norm" (Vital Signs by Rush)
The Big Lez Show, Danger 5, Italian Spiderman, Smiling Friends, Bushworld Adventures, Yolo, Solar Opposites.
These are just some of the title of the people behind this new TV Show, created by the prolific mind of Australian animator Michael Cusack.
Koala Man is a tv show about a regular mid-age family dad that try his best to make the right thing, even if there is no reason to do that and even if his family is experiencing a crisis. There is honesty in the frustration lived by Kevin Williams/Koala Man and episode after episode you start to understand that his obsession with the justice is just to cover other kind of issues. All the supernatural events connected to the routine of the simple town of Depto are just the norm, a metaphor to analyze the Australian society (Australia that could be the Netherlands, the UK, or every random not so big country of the Europe) in the era post covid, an era self-aware of his own unselfishness and inadequacy, envy of the illusion of the America dream.
The Australian Time zone: The narrative of the alternative story backround created because of Australia Time zone (no spoiler don't worry) is probably the most superb part of this not so silly cartoon, something similar to the alternate storyline written by Alan Moore in Watchmen. I'm not joking.
Excellent Acting with a really great cast.
A great music direction composed by Brendan Caulfield
Oustanding Animations (The Emu episode have one of the greatest animation and music I ever saw for a first season tv show episode).
If you like only one of the title I wrote at the beginning of this review, you will love this show.
