Long Story Short is a 10-episode Netflix animated sitcom that plays like a short-story anthology rather than a traditional comedy season. Episodes jump around chronologically across the Schwooper family, offering self-contained vignettes that gain resonance cumulatively. The series follows Avi, Shira and Yoshi at different ages and life stages—Avi as a young man and post-divorce, Shira at a disastrous prom and as a mother, and Yoshi as an awkward troublemaker who later becomes an Orthodox Jew. The narrative orbits matriarch Naomi Schwartz and her husband Elliott, with Naomi's presence felt strongly even after her death. Tone blends melancholic and joyous tribute through comedic storytelling.
Raphael Bob-Waksberg has left behind the shield of talking animals in " Bojack Horseman " and "Tuca & Bertie" to deliver a deeply personal family animated sitcom called "Long Story Short," a 10-episode Netflix comedy that plays more like a powerful short story anthology than a traditional season of laugh-inducing television. With his writing team, Bob-Waksberg jumps around chronologically in the lives of the Schwooper family, going almost randomly from character to character and time period to time period in each episode,
telling self-contained stories that gain added resonance in the accumulation. I can remember after the funeral of a beloved uncle when I was just a teenager, sitting in a back room and hearing his brothers and nephews tell stories about him. "Long Story Short" has that energy, a melancholic yet joyous tribute through comedic storytelling to a family that may not be your own but that isn't all that far off either.
We will check in with these characters at various stages of their lives, seeing both a young Avi and one post-divorce; seeing Shira at a disastrous prom and as a mother; seeing Yoshi as an awkward troublemaker and becoming Orthodox Jew later in life. All of these events are in the shadow of a figure that's powerful to the storytelling even when she's absent, matriarch Naomi Schwartz (Lisa Edelstein), wife to the kind Elliott (Paul Reiser).
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