Common Sense Media Review
By Marty Brown
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Animated comedy features zombie bloodshed, profanity.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 16+?
Any Positive Content?
Where to Watch
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Wild Life
Parent and Kid Reviews
What's the Story?
WILD LIFE takes place in an abandoned zoo after the zombie apocalypse has hit. Glenn, a cheetah who is trying to work on his anger issues, hangs out with a group of friends including Darby, a koala, and Marnie, a dolphin, as the group attempts to survive and chill in a world that has mostly left them behind.
Is It Any Good?
Syfy's TZGZ is sort of a knock-off of Adult Swim programming -- it's a block of quick, mostly forgettable, animated comedies. Wild Life, one of TZGZ's featured series, checks all the boxes for that particular type of show. Self-aware animal-based characters make some easy jokes about nature and psychology, but ultimately just end up hanging out in the pool. It would have been considered edgy in a pre-Family Guy world but now just feels like a watered down version of BoJack Horseman.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the zoo. Where do the characters in Wild Life live? What is this world like? What is the relationship between the animals and humans?
What drives these characters? What do they want? How do they go about getting it? What does friendship mean in this world? How do the characters take care of one another?
How do the characters embody their real life animal counterparts? Do they behave like you'd expect these animals to behave? What are some surprising characteristics of these animals?
TV Details
- Premiere date : September 27, 2020
- Cast : Dylan Dawson , Reggie Watts , Claudia O'Doherty
- Network : Syfy
- Genre : Comedy
- TV rating :
- Last updated : October 6, 2020
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