Show Guide

Apollo Gauntlet

2016 Adult Swim 15 min Comedy, Adventure, Science-Fiction

6.5our take /10

5.4IMDb /10

Apollo Gauntlet is a quarter-hour animated adventure comedy series set in a futuristic medieval society. The series centers around Paul Cassidy, an ordinary cop on Earth, but when the evil Dr. Benign transports him to another world, he becomes a new kind of he

Our Review

Adult Swim’s most unclassifiable pocket epic: a cop from Earth dies, is resurrected by a talking gauntlet-scientist in a sword-and-sandal alien world, and becomes a side-scrolling hero with a mullet and a very casual attitude toward violence. Created by Mondo animators, it’s drawn in a deliberately flat, cut-out style that looks like a ’70s Saturday-morning cartoon filtered through a mescaline dream.

Six-minute episodes fly by on pure deadpan absurdism — Apollo dispatches wizards and skeleton armies with the energy of a man taking out the recycling. It’s a joke-delivery system, sure, but the jokes are consistent and the world (Rubicon) is a surprisingly coherent pastiche of pulp fantasy clichés. If Rick and Morty is a philosophy lecture with farts, Apollo Gauntlet is the fart, unadorned and proud.

Verdict: Watch it in one sitting — it’s 90 minutes total and it’ll break your brain a little.

Seasons

Apollo Gauntlet — Season 1

6 episodes

Season 1 of Apollo Gauntlet premiered 2017-07-09 and ran 6 episodes through 2017-08-13.