The bad behavior is fun, but the plot construction can feel thin. ... But, um, there's a unicorn! Oswalt give Happy a sweetness edging into lunacy. ... To quote Home Alone 2, another yuletide tale about a heroic psychopath torturing bad guys in New York City. [8 Dec 2017, p.46]

The action in the pilot is so breathlessly high-octane, it’s borderline exhausting. The pitch-black humor and dystopian funk veer dangerously close to ugliness at times. And outside of Smoothie, Nick’s antagonists are too thinly drawn to make an impression. ... But if you like your TV dramas gory, action-packed and ruthlessly funny? Meet your new favorite show.

Happy! has those films’ [the Crank movies] wild, pell-mell sense of pace and jittery, overcaffeinated style. But the series’ scripts are smart about undercutting the wild mayhem and constant introduction of new ideas with a bittersweet holiday angst.

It’s the kind of project that dances so interestingly on the edge of abrasiveness that one bad storytelling turn could send it off the dark side forever. And yet there’s something almost thrilling about watching Morrison, Taylor, Meloni, Oswalt, and the rest of the gang keep this crazy top spinning for two episodes.

Meloni’s performance and the strength of the source material will keep the show afloat for interested viewers. But based on the first two episodes, it’s an acquired, specific taste.

Other than Hailey and Happy all the characters are a different shade of terrible, which gets kind of boring unless you’re tuning in only for the fight scenes that invariably end in bloodbaths.

Happy! has a cartoonish sensibility more suited to drawings than live action. The more it strains to be edgy and shocking, the more laughable it becomes.

Imagine if Grant Morrison and One of the co-creators of Transmetropolitan co-wrote a show.... That is Happy! This show is so blissfully good I cannot even contain my joy as a comic geek. Give it a chance because the first few episodes are set-ups. But I guarantee if you like a supernatural psychotic comic book show, with violence and a commentary on the human societal(spiritual?) condition.... You will not be disappointed.

This show is a wonderful mashup of things that don't normally work together. Barney meets Scarface, Tinkerbell meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Imagine Power Rangers as the victims in snuff porn, , , who wouldn't want to see that?

Following a heart-attack disgraced detective Nick Sax begins to see a small, blue, winged unicorn named Happy. Happy explains that he is the imaginary friend of a little girl named Hailey, who has been kidnapped and he needs Nick’s help to rescue her. The odd premise and an entertaining lead performance by Meloni carry the show through the opening few episodes, but the convoluted plot eventually bogs it down.

A series full of action and brutal comedy, but quite poor in writing that becomes repetitive, predictable and ridiculous. The music and special effects have nothing remarkable, you can watch it only for the brutality but it would still not be worth it.

Changed my score after realizing that even though this is a flashy unconventional show, after having to shut off the last episode midway, it has no redeeming qualities whatsoever