Parents' Guide to The Guardians of Justice

This ambitious but generally unpleasant hybrid show feels simultaneously like a Watchmen rip-off, a bad Ralph Bakshi animation, and a series of skippable video game cutscenes. The frequent jumps between genres and visual styles that appear to be this show's signature are simply unwarranted and end up adding much less than creator Shankar thinks. In a media landscape already packed with superheroes, antiheroes, and beyond, this show asks a lot in its rapid-fire introductions of many new characters. The lazy comedy relies on "soo random" events and situations (cyborg T-rexes loose in Syria! Awsome Man is eating a taco during a meeting! His name is Awsome Man! Andy Milonakis is there!) With more care, creativity, and camp, and a little less chaos this series could rise to become an interesting entry into the scuzzy superhero genre. And even more unfortunately for Guardians, there's a competing series that does all this and more: it's called Peacemaker.