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Our Review
Adult Swim’s strangest therapy allegory: an absent minded doctor (Jon Gries) runs a dream therapy clinic where patients are strapped into a tanning bed-looking contraption and sent into their subconscious, rendered in gorgeous rotoscoped animation. The flesh and blood waking world is shabby and deadpan, the clinic is staffed by a dead eyed nurse, a cheesy robot, and a lobotomized intern named Randy, whom the show slowly reveals is its actual protagonist.
The dream sequences are the reason to watch: surreal, hand drawn, genuinely inventive, and often funnier than the frame story. The problem is the frame story, the jokes about dysfunctional healthcare are thin, and the pace is glacial even by Adult Swim standards. But Randy’s arc (a nobody who becomes a god inside dreams, which is the saddest kind of power) gives the show an unexpected melancholy core.
Verdict: Watch it for the animation and the weird. It’s a curiosity, but curiosities have their place.
