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If you can seperate it from its original show, it's a half decent laugh. Most of the pilot's enjoyment comes from Birdgirl's delivery, and when the slapstick hits right- which unfortunately isn't too often. The B-plot feels like a bit of a waste, and it is a shame they're backing away from the use of Hannah Barbara characters, but it could be worse. It could be MORE girl bossy. It's following the new adult swim trend of having an emotional moment maybe once an episode, and it could use a stronger supporting cast for Paget Brewster, who's pulling a lot of the leg work voice wise.

That dog with a bucket hat was the only other laugh I got, but it's just the pilot. We could see more cartoon icons to come, assuming their absence isn't an issue with legal licensing this time around.

On it's own, it really is just OK.

Days ago, I just watched the new Adult Swim animated series, Birdgirl, a spin-off of one of the most brilliant Adult Swim cartoons, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law and I see little charm in it. Let me tell you, we all know that Judy Ken Sebben's father (and mostly one of funniest characters on Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law) Phil Ken Sebben is gone for good and Judy refuses to believe it while other characters like the dog character and some Phil Ken Sebben imposter nominated Birdgirl as Phil's successor. Now I want to make this clear, the humor is more of a huge mixbag, sometimes it's kinda unfunny and sometimes it's actually a little clever. Some characters like Meredith the Mind Taker and the Dog with Bucket Hat (I'm sorry, but seriously what kind of a name is that?) are at least interesting but Meredith is the most interesting one, and the writing...it's not that great, sometimes the writing makes the show kinda boring just like I have the same issue with Mike Tyson Mysteries. Even though I didn't like Mike Tyson Mysteries but at least I find the show a little more better. So there, the writing in Birdgirl is kinda bland and boring, but at least the animation and the art style are decent enough for me to tolerate. Oh and did I metion that this show has lack of any Hanna-Barbera characters? Yes, yes I did mainly because of licensing issures and I'm honestly fine with it because of I don't mind but I do feel sorry for the Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law fans who do missed the Hanna-Barbera characters. Birdgirl isn't that great nor good, it's a mixbag cartoon with some high potential. Other cartoons spin-offs like Daria and The Casagrandes are much better and so is Heavy Birdman: Attorney At Law. Birdgirl is a very weak show in my book and if you like the show, that's great but to keep in mind, I don't find the show bad...it's meh. I'll stick to Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law and other Adult Swim shows such as Rick and Morty, Final Space, Primal and Lazor Wulf and I'll might as well continue watching Birdgirl if I want to. I give Birdgirl a 5.3/10.

Never seen other shows link to this, but I seen people writ about them. But I can only judge what I have seen and boy it's bad compared to shows like Venture Brothers that Adult Swim also made. Really hope this does not stick around and they instead give us some good shows to watch or use the money on more seasons of some of the good shows instead. As of now this seems like a waste of money and I would say talent but that would clearly be a lie, as it does not seem to be any in the show or behind it either.

The show is funny and fast. The characters are good enough for an adult animation show. I would watch the whole season.

There is nothing here for the Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law fans. I guess that demographic aged out of the Adult Swim target audience. Maybe the Zoomers can make this show profitable but it sure isn't watchable for people who know comedy is about challenging and often offending the status quo instead of treading lightly around cancel culture.

It's not great and it's not good. Really wanted to like it but it's just not that good. Hopefully it gets better but I doubt it.

How did it get approved for 2nd season with ratings and views sooo low?...

What's clear fairly early on in the pilot is that Birdgirl and Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (one of my all time favorite shows, period) are pretty different. The animation style, the dialogue between characters, and the general tone of the show are unique, and that takes some getting used to if you're expecting the nonstop witticism that Harvey Birdman brought.

What I really like about the show is the thing it has that Harvey Birdman didn't: heart. Our lead character, as well as her best friend/possible love interest Meredith the Mindtaker, have some pretty serious conversations, and the internal battle of Judy vs Birdgirl in the mind of the titular character is treated with respect, while still being sure to have plenty of gags.

I look forward to seeing the show separate itself further from Harvey Birdman, while also still having the silliness that gave me so many laughs.

Can't go wrong with Pagent. She is smart AND funny. It's a win for everyone.

Look at how they mascaraed the legacy of Harvey Birdman!?

Modern humor, especially cartoons, aside from a handful suck. Are they jokes or random callbacks so we remember something funny and relatable?

Its crazy to think that the show is written by the same people who wrote Harvey Birdman episodes. Only thing I can think of, is that they lost their edge, and are afraid to make any jokes so they somehow dont offend anything.

So no, I didnt get that thing you sent me.

The delivery of these jokes is *often* too fast for most people which is why I wouldn't call this show 'laugh out loud' funny. There is very little time to actually laugh because it's always on to the next line of clever dialogue. And this show is clever. The characters are zany and extreme and the writers do a great job of depicting these qualities while moving a often pointless plot along. Think pointless like Sealab 2021 but more clever and more topical. Ridiculous that it is rated so low. For what it is it's an 8/10.

I watched the first episode just out of curiosity and felt nothing really but I kept watching them and suddenly fall in love with all the characters. First of all never do the mistake of thinking it belong to the action genre cause there is literally no fighting scene or anything close to it. Every episodes revolves around the life of Judy and his company Seben n Seben, that's it.

So if you just wanna lie down and want to watch randomly nothing then Bird girl is the best show for you on the internet.

Birdman was a fantastic cartoon, this isn't. I really wanted to like this as a fan of its progenitor series but it just isn't funny. It doesn't have the HB characters which would have been fine if the writing was funny but it wasn't. To me it felt like what a thirty year old New York woman thought was amusing, alas, they were wrong and this didn't even illicit a chuckle. A well deserved 1/10.

I think it's really cool that they're opening the same type of humor I enjoyed (as a 15 year old boy) to girls. I loved Harvey Birdman as a kid. And watching this is very nostalgic. It's the same type of humor. I even found myself laughing out loud. Its not the same as Harvey Birdman, but it's not supposed to be.

If the girl viewership is there, then cool. That makes sense for them. If you're anti anything "girl-power ra-ra" then yeah, you're obviously not going to like it. But in the spectrum of cultures, this helps close the gap between genders. Again, if the girl viewership is there, then I'm glad that I might be able to share this side of my humor with them. And if I had teenage daughters, I'd be watching this with them.

Betting on the legacy of the hilarious, absurdist triumph that was Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law to carry this show was ill considered. This program is completely lackluster in every respect.

The scenarios are tedious and the characters unlikeable and less than one dimensional. The animation style too glossy, lacking the coarseness of the original series.

Adult Swim and Cartoon Network used to be edgy and boundary pushing. Now, their output is primarily non-offensive, Establishment friendly dreck. Birdgirl is yet another example of this sad decline.

Absolutely f--ing awful.

Noisey, unfunny, loud, uninteresting, screeching, dull-witted, pointless, noisey and cringe inducing.

That is all.

I enjoyed the first episode. I hadn't watched much of the original series, and I can understand why fans of that would find this cynical and unappealing. I actually thought it was fairly funny, and it subverted some of my extremely low expectations. It may turn, but it's not garbage.

Adult Swim cancelled The Venture Bros. And Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell, two of the funniest, cleverest shows ever to grace the small screen. So what do they give us to replace them? Birdgirl.

In the Woke tradition Birdgirl is not funny, clever, witty etc... but it has girls. Most of the characters are female (with male characters portrayed as effeminate, weak and pathetic). Birdgirl tries hard and fails hard. It succeeds in being nonsensical without being absurd. It tosses 'jokes' at the viewer in rapid succession but none of them are funny.

This is the cartoon version of the female Ghostbusters movie. Weak sauce all around. Adult Swim going Woke is Adult Swim sinking to the bottom of the lake with concrete shoes on. Their pretty faces are already in Hell.

I'm a cartoon historian, and my opinion is based in an academic evaluation of what the creators were trying to do, and if they succeeded. They did. The series isn't meant to be perfect, doing so would in and of itself, disregard the original series. I find the idea of Judy continuing on, refreshing. I look forward to more. 4.5stars.

Why did they make this if they couldn't work off the main premise of Harvey Birdman? Lawyering for Hanna Barbera characters! Half the humor from the old show was taking those characters and subverting their place in a modern setting. Instead it's just a weird office with Birdgirl in it and no other relationship to the original show. Like, if they couldn't use those characters, why not try to use more modern cartoons like Dexter or Cow and Chicken or Ed Edd and Eddy, THEN add the familiar fast, non-sequitur humor.

Got bored, found HBAL on HBO and watched that again instead.

I had eagerly been waiting for this show for a while but honestly it's kind of depressing. It's not that it's that bad but it's just "noise" both in terms of writing and visual design with the Birdman/Birdgirl brand attached to it.

On the surface it looks like it's trying to be it's own thing however if you look closer you can see the writers of the show didn't have many ideas besides trying to remind people of things from Harvey Birdman.

The recurring characters are bad new version and amalgams of "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law" characters. The dog character is like a Doggie Daddy including the "jokes" of treating him like an actual dog but with a hat that makes it look like a Peter Potamus surrogate; the green girl that for some reason wears a brassiere on the outside keeps repeating the" mind taking" and "bweeoop" catchphrases ad nauseam in case the audience forgets for a second that she is supposed to be a female "Mentok, The mind taker"; the secretary character makes me think that someone watched the scene in Harvey Birdman where X the Eliminator interacts with Debbie (Harvey's secretary) and thought "Hey! For Birdgirl let's combine these two characters. It will be hilarious AF!"

The problem is not that these new characters exist in the show but that there's really nothing else going on for the show.

It's weird looking at reviews of this show where apologists implore others that they shouldn't compare this show to Harvey Birdman when even the show's "mini-intro" is just a list of the most popular Birdgirl catchphrases from Harvey Birdman, which makes you wish you were watching that show instead.

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law was a show that featured dozens of very creative and funny entertainment "professionals" just having fun writing for or playing dozens of charming Hanna-Barbera characters (plus others parodied or licensed?). Birdgirl feels like Paget Brewster's talent and charm being wasted on a generic animated show with a bunch of boring not-funny characters.

When you love a show or movie so much you would kill for a new season, prequel or sequel and then all but immediately wish it never came out; Birdgirl is one of them.

Paget Brewster is awesome. I always loved Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law. Birdgirl's hyped up craziness was awesome. Sadly she was in few episodes. Nice to see a spin-off carry the Birdperson torch. Hopefully we'll see a lot of the Birdman cast doing cameos. Adult swim has been seriously lacking for a while. Nice to see them going back to their roots.

It's clear that this show was green lit for all the wrong reasons. It's hard to find anything to appreciate from this 20 year late spinoff, even with the original creators still on board signing off on this somehow.

Hardly any charm is left to be found and it really calls into question the decision making of Adult Swim executives as of the past decade.

The only redeeming factor would be the fact that this show might lead GenZ to look up the classical brilliance that is Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law.