Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal

What a great show, amazing character development and story telling with our nearly a word spoken in the whole show.

Great animation with a very minimalist story in a fun time period. But after a few episodes I found myself saying something that I thought I would never say. It's almost TOO violent. Like, every episode is just a few prehistoric creatures beating the living **** out of each other. That's it. I found myself struggling to start new episodes. So this is what critics like? Have a well animated show with ultra violence and throw in a couple long close ups up character's eyes. Anyone can do that really.

I mean it's watchable, sometimes even entrataining, but mostly silly and dumb. The show starts with a good 2 episodes of worldbulding /characterbuilding and then devolves into an episodic television, no stakes, no change, no progress, no plot. You could watch the first 2 episodes and then skip to the last one (which tbh is just a setup for the next season) and lose nothing.

I decided to watch this probably like many people did because they like Samurai Jack and of course the guy who did that did Primal. First of all the animation that everyone is going nuts over in their reviews is so '90s and simplistic. People must look at shows like Arcane, Love and Death and Robots or Invincible, which are a lot better animation. Since the series is hand-drawn, you can tell that it reuses a ton of drawings from scene to scene. People also say what a fantastic story Primal has. First of all Primal has no dialogue to help explain or move the plot along which a lot of people see as a huge positive, but I do not. There are only 4 plot elements in the series Run Fight Eat and Sleep So for instance, 1 episode is basically Run Fight Eat Run Run Sleep and then every episode after that is just a variation on these elements. Oh well, I have stopped watching this series and will not pick it up in season 2.

Someone confused primitive with primal unfortunately. The very sobre Franco-Japanese style of animation (it seems half of the drawings were made by French) is completely wasted on an inane plot. Samurai Jack was so playful, tongue in cheek and didn't take itself half as seriously as this arrogant drivel.