The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy

The Second Best Hospital In The Galaxy is actually very much its own beast. It's the rare show that knows exactly what it's supposed to be from the get-go. Just one episode in, you'll feel like you've been watching this show for years, and that's because the world-building is very organic without the overwhelming exposition or information overload that can often wobble sci-fi pilots like this before the writers find their groove.

The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy throws viewers into a strange and exciting cosmic world with oddities at every turn. Though the episodes take on several subplots and medical cases, the overarching storyline with the deadly parasite is very interesting and will encourage viewers to follow Dr. Sleech and Dr. Klak on their research.

The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy is a charming mix of genres and tones that borrows from the best while still feeling like something new.

It’s nowhere near as emotionally powerful as BoJack Horseman could be and hasn’t hit the comedic heights of the best Rick and Morty episodes, but fans of those cartoons will be right at home here.

Much like a little brain parasite with big potential, it feels like The Second Best Hospital In The Galaxy has earned its right to keep growing.

I don't like the humor of this show most of the time, it is predictable or just flat. The show's artstyle(actually not only that) is trying to convince you that you are watching Rick and Morty.

I wanted to like this show, really I did. It's filled with generic psuedo-alien technobabble that the show somehow seems to think is a joke all on its own. Every character that isn't blatantly telegraphed to be an antagonist talks non-stop about their petty insecurities that feel more and more tacked on for the sake of sympathetic relatability each time they do it. They even manage to make jokes that really SHOULD be funny (like an advertisement playing during surgery) but somehow aren't. I don't even know how they manage that, perhaps it's simply because the rest of it is so boring that the rare above-mediocrity moments end up being desperately low-key. Someone on the internet recommended this for people who like Rick and Morty, but I'd actually say the exact opposite. This is Rick and Morty for people who don't like Rick and Morty. This is humor for people who don't like comedy. This is Sci-Fi for people who only understand it through stereotypes. If this show has an audience, I have no idea who they are.

Tries to be like an adult animation of Scrubs but just ends up being forgettable. Its biggest problem is that its core concept of being in an alien hospital doesn’t work and therefore a lot of the runtime of the show is just boring. It relies heavily on the idea that weird things happen and are considered normal in this cartoon universe, but these shock humour jokes just don’t work. For example, in episode 1 there a scene where Sleech and Klak eat these weird living creatures that actively try to escape from them like its a normal thing. The problem is, that this exact scene has been done better elsewhere (like in Rick and Morty). There’s tons of examples like this through the first season of shock humour that either doesn’t work or has been done better elsewhere. It’s so bad that a lot of the short side plots like Klak’s mother who’s gotten famous by exploiting Klak’s anxiety is funnier and more interesting that the main plot for that episode.