{"id":1974824,"date":"2025-08-22T17:30:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1974824"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:30:26","slug":"long-story-short-will-be-netflixs-new-bojack-horseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/long-story-short-will-be-netflixs-new-bojack-horseman\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Long Story Short\u2019 Will Be Netflix\u2019s New \u2018Bojack Horseman\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unlike other towering figures of the animated-sitcom world like Matt Groening<\/a>, Seth MacFarlane<\/a>, or Mike Judge<\/a>, Raphael Bob-Waksberg<\/a> is in the odd position of having created multiple cartoon shows without a background as an animator.<\/p>\n

This lends his output an impressive eclecticism: Bojack Horseman<\/i><\/a>, which looks a bit (but doesn\u2019t much act) like Mike Judge\u2019s style of light, clean-line caricature; Undone<\/i><\/a>, a rotoscoped marvel befitting its trippy subject matter; and now Long Story Short<\/i>, a time-hopping family saga that feels a bit like a flip through a particularly active and whimsical sketchbook, with playful loops of curly hair and scribbles of handmade-looking details.<\/p>\n

Long Story Short,<\/i> debuting on Netflix Aug. 22, also brings to mind both graphic memoirs and traditional novels, an ambitious project that makes better use of an episodic structure than many of its Netflix brethren.<\/p>\n

The show follows the lives of the Schwoopers, a trio of Jewish siblings named for a portmanteau of good-natured father Elliot Cooper (Paul Reiser) and overbearing mother Naomi Schwartz (Lisa Edelstein). Avi (Ben Feldman), the eldest, is a religion-skeptical music geek; Shira (Abbi Jacobson<\/a>) is the combative middle child; and Yoshi (Max Greenfield) is the feckless youngest.<\/p>\n

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(L-R) Abbi Jacobson as Shira Schwooper, Lisa Edelstein as Naomi Schwartz, Paul Reiser as Elliot Cooper and Max Greenfield as Yoshi Schwooper. \/ Netflix<\/p>\n

We see all three from childhood to (at least in the older two sibs\u2019 case) middle age, but not chronologically; different episodes skip between time periods, and often include their own flashbacks that further inform the stories at hand. All told, the show covers around 30 years of the family\u2019s life, expanding to include in-laws, family friends, and more distant relations.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a device that allows for sitcom-style episodes firmly structured around single events\u2014a school play, a new job, a funeral, an intervention\u2014while eschewing bad exposition in favor of a more novelistic approach. Major events like deaths and divorces are often first referred to in passing during an episode set well after the fact.<\/p>\n

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Gina Rodriguez as Baby Feldstein and Max Greenfield as Yoshi Schwooper. \/ Netflix<\/p>\n

The show centers the family\u2019s Jewishness in a knowing, multifaceted way that appears to be autobiographical. (Bob-Waksberg\u2019s family was heavily involved in the Jewish community around their California home, just like the family on the show.) Meaningfully, Long Story Short <\/i>focuses on American cultural Jewishness more than religious beliefs, flowing back to the willfulness of Naomi, who obviously wants her kids practicing Judaism in precisely the way she\u2019s come to understand it. (In fact, some of the characters\u2019 reactions to more adherent forms of the religion are hilariously baffled or dismissive.)<\/p>\n

At the same time, Naomi\u2019s Jewish-mom shtick, particularly her passive-aggressive relationship with Avi\u2019s eventual wife Jen (Angelique Cabral), may feel familiar even to those outside of the tribe. For all of the show\u2019s ambition and emotional realism, it sometimes feels muddled between its serious family dynamics and broader, cartoonier farce, with the cliches of the latter bleeding into the former.<\/p>\n

The episodes are rarely short of funny lines, often running into each other and piling up in a purposefully cacophonous overlap. (Again, Bob-Waksberg reaches beyond typical TV formulas and seems, at times, to pull from live theater.) Some bigger ideas, though, tend to be run into the ground, or, on the other side, underdeveloped.<\/p>\n

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(L-R) Lisa Edelstein as Naomi Schwartz, Ben Feldman as Avi Schwooper, Max Greenfield as Yoshi Schwooper, Abbi Jacobson as Shira Schwooper and Paul Reiser as Elliot Cooper. \/ Netflix<\/p>\n

When the timeline crosses into the 2020s, for example, it doesn\u2019t shy away from mentioning or depicting the after-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and laudably, not just as an abstraction. It clearly affected these characters\u2019 lives in major ways. But those references work better in dialogue than in bigger storytelling swings: In one bizarre episode, Avi tries to help rid his daughter\u2019s school of wolves that have taken up residence since the pandemic-era closures. It\u2019s a very Simpsons<\/i>-y gag, only the show uses it as a path toward some beyond-broad satire of the shrilly cynical parental-rights movements that bedevil so many schools.<\/p>\n

The major characters are also drawn wearing masks in indoor public spaces for most post-2020 scenes. There\u2019s a story reason for this\u2014and even if there wasn\u2019t, that\u2019s obviously not an inherent problem. Plenty of people continued to wear masks well after the pandemic was prematurely declared over; it\u2019s another example of the show\u2019s attention to period detail, whether that period is typified by late \u201990s youth culture, a post-9\/11 prom, a past-peak Arcade Fire in 2014, or masking in 2022.<\/p>\n

But when every one of the likable main characters uniformly (and, as far as the audience ever sees, silently) agree on this point, it feels like Bob-Waksberg is attempting to model good behavior more than offer specific characterization. It\u2019s kind of neat to see masking acknowledged as something people might do past the earliest months of 2021, but how many quarrelsome multi-generational families of 10 members or more would find themselves in absolute lockstep about this one issue? The show\u2019s earnestness sometimes masks a lack of truly surprising insight.<\/p>\n

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(L-R) Lisa Edelstein as Naomi Schwartz, Angelique Cabral as Jen and Abbi Jacobson as Shira Schwooper. \/ Netflix<\/p>\n

Yet like a novel with frustrating passages that is nonetheless difficult to put down, the sheer time-hopping scale of Long Story Short<\/i> pulls you through its 10 episodes. Some of the unlikeliest conceits turn out to rank among the show\u2019s best, like an episode where Yoshi reconnects with someone from his past while doing his damndest to not screw up a favor for Shira\u2014a mini-rom-com and sibling psychodrama rolled into one.<\/p>\n

As individual episodes rise more than falter, it makes increasing sense that the show has already been renewed for a second season. Without resorting to cheap cliffhangers, Bob-Waksberg and his writers still leave you wanting to know where the Schwoopers go next.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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