Close Enough

The normal life of a married guy with commitments. J.G. Quintel exchanged the fantastical world of anthropomorphised animal heroes from children’s cartoons for the “reality” of coarse grown-up series, but he views that reality with an equally wild and adamantly infantile perspective suffused with the logic of trashy 1980s pop culture. The context of adulthood and family and social commitments gives both a bitter touch and a satirical sting to the mentally immature protagonists’ absurdly overwrought confrontations with the bizarre aspects of modern city life. In Close Enough, the world around the central family and their friends turns out to be even more self-reverent, absurd and immature, while taking on the form of Quintel’s typically trashy caricatures. (22/08/2020)