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Adult Swim’s Primal Renewed For Third Season

Adult Swim’s Primal Renewed For Third Season

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The entertainment industry isn’t in great shape these days, but as long as we keep giving Genndy Tartakovsky whatever he wants, there will always be a bright spot. He and Adult Swim have been great partners of late, producing top-quality content like Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, the final season of Samurai Jack and the two existing seasons of Primal. And the hits will keep on coming: Adult Swim announced today a third season of Primal is now in production. “It’s happening! Primal has become a contagious disease that I don’t ever want to cure,” said Tartakovsky. “Every episode flows out like an unstoppable force beyond my control. Prepare yourselves Primal fans for Season 3 is coming!” Primal is about a caveman (Spear) and a dinosaur (Fang) who partner up and explore a world that seems to be a mixture of ancient timelines. If you’ve seen every episode including the finale, then you might be wondering how a Season 3 is even possible. Spoilers follow. Season 2 appeared to be the end

Genndy Tartakovsky Finally Gives Hope For Sym-Bionic Titan Fans

Genndy Tartakovsky Finally Gives Hope For Sym-Bionic Titan Fans

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Genndy Tartakovsky’s Unicorn: Warriors Eternal premieres this Thursday. It’s the latest in a long line of top-quality action cartoons created by the man of Russian descent: Samurai Jack, Primal, and somewhere in the middle, Sym-Bionic Titan. That latter one doesn’t get talked about as much, but I saw the whole thing when it was new and trust me — it’s really good. But unlike Genndy’s other shows, it was cut down in its prime. Only one season of Sym-Bionic Titan was made before CN cancelled the show, allegedly from low toy sales even though no toys were actually made. The story was going somewhere, but it was aggravatingly left unresolved. Genndy hasn’t really spoken about Titan since its cancellation many years ago. Today he finally did, in a new interview with the website Polygon. “I want to finish Titan,” Tartakovsky says. “We wrote 10 more episodes; there’s more to finish and yes, I would want to do that. It’s just nobody’s letting me do it just yet.” There’s a catch

Don’t Miss Tartakovsky’s Latest, Unicorn Warriors Eternal

Don’t Miss Tartakovsky’s Latest, Unicorn Warriors Eternal

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Animation director Genndy Tartakovsky is the creator of a lot of cool things; Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Sym-Bionic Titan and most recently Primal — but he’s had another project on his plate for some time that barely anyone has known anything about. Today Adult Swim finally gave us a peek at the thing: a 10-episode miniseries called Unicorn Warriors Eternal. The fact that it’s AS airing this is a bit of a curveball; from the few sketches that have been released and the kid-friendly designs within (not to mention the name, which would have fit at home next to Ben 10 or Generator Rex), we thought Unicorn was meant to be a Cartoon Network show. But there must be some adult elements we don’t see yet. Can’t possibly be bloodier than Primal anyway. Unicorn is the story of three heroes who are reincarnated every era to fight an ancient evil that resurfaces periodically. And just like them, the show is older than it looks and has been thrown around many

Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of August 12

Adult Swim Premieres For The Weekend Of August 12

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This week’s Adult Swim premieres are the same deal as the last few weeks — Primal on Thursday (AKA today), Tuca & Bertie on Sunday. We have no idea if tonight’s episode of Primal is the midseason finale. The previous two times the show has run, it’s been in five-episode bites with a year or so between them. This is the fifth episode, but AS hasn’t used the words “season finale” or “midseason finale” or anything, so we have no idea if there’s more Primal next week or a repeat. What we do know is….nothing, because we can’t see it. Literally, AS can’t show anything from tonight’s episode because their contract with Genndy gives him control over what appears in the promos. (That must be a nice contract to have!) And apparently anything would be a big spoiler. The show left off with what had to be the most violent thing AS has ever aired with Spear and Fang at war against an entire Viking clan. They managed to win,

Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time Announced For Summer

Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time Announced For Summer

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Jack is back! Sort of. The cartoon series has wrapped up its story for good (thank you, Adult Swim), but you can experience a lost chapter from the wandering samurai’s adventures when Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is released for consoles and PC. It turns out that right before Jack went into his final confrontation with the villainous (yet loveable) Aku, the dark demon zapped Jack into an alternate timeline! (What, again?) To return, Jack must team up with the friends he gained throughout the series to re-battle the entire lineup of villains he faced during those five seasons. The narrative is, essentially, an excuse to give Samurai Jack fans what they want from a game. You decide if it’s canon. Want to know more about Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time? There’s no demo yet, but the game will be shown off at PAX East. Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky and head writer Darrick Bachman will be in attendance at the Adult Swim Games panel, which takes place in the

Believe It Or Not, Primal Is Up For An Oscar

Believe It Or Not, Primal Is Up For An Oscar

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As a big fan of Genndy Tartakovsky’s work, Primal is the kind of project I’ve always wanted to see from him. The man is a master of animation timing, with a special flair for dramatic fight scenes. So when a new series was announced that was nothing BUT these scenes, you better believe I was at my couch at midnight October 5. And Primal didn’t disappoint. The wordless action sequences were some of the best moments in Samurai Jack or Star Wars: Clone Wars, and now that all that pesky dialogue has been eliminated completely, Genndy can do what he does best: communicate paragraphs through a glance, establish high tension with staging alone. Primal is delicious, if a bit more harsh and brutal than what we’re used to seeing from him. If Primal loses next year’s Emmy in favor of the ten billionth Simpsons episode, it’ll be a huge injustice. But it actually has a shot at an Oscar. How is that even possible? Because Adult Swim threw together two

The Big Trailer For Tartakovsky’s Amazing Primal

The Big Trailer For Tartakovsky’s Amazing Primal

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There are many things about the current state of the world to be miserable about, but for once, fate is favoring the forces of good: GENNDY TARTAKOVSKY IS MAKING COOL CARTOONS AGAIN! As one of the greatest living animation directors, Tartakovsky has an incredible sense for timing and action direction. He shined in Samurai Jack, the brief Star Wars Clone Wars shorts, and the even briefer Sym-Bionic Titan, cancelled at one season. The action cartoon market was dying for children, and after CN didn’t have use for him anymore, Tartakovsky had to settle for directing Sander movies about vampires. BUT THEN! The great Genndy found a hole in his schedule and suggested to Adult Swim that they fill it with the abandoned fifth season of Samurai Jack. They did so, and the return season was such a success….we’re getting another series from him! Primal is the name of a prehistoric series where a caveman and a dinosaur team up to battle nature and survive (yeah, it’s not historically correct, but

Genndy Tartakovsky Working On New Adult Swim Series

Genndy Tartakovsky Working On New Adult Swim Series

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We couldn’t have asked for better news today than this. Animation genius Genndy Tartakovsky, the man behind Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Clone Wars (the original shorts, not the CGI series), is working on a new show. It’s being produced for Adult Swim, and we could get it as soon as six months from now. The new show is called “Primal” and looks to be in the vein of Jack’s darker exploits. The synopsis: Primal features a caveman at the dawn of evolution. A dinosaur on the brink of extinction. Bonded by tragedy, this unlikely friendship becomes the only hope of survival in a violent, primordial world. It already sounds much better than The Good Dinosaur, but so do most things. Undoubtedly, the greenlighting of this series was influenced by the strong performance of Samurai Jack Season 5, which aired on Adult Swim and Toonami in 2017 and attracted some of the highest ratings the late-night semi-channel has ever registered. It wasn’t a surprise….after Genndy had spent so much time

Samurai Jack: The Fifth Season Review

Samurai Jack: The Fifth Season Review

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Samurai Jack has finished his journey. One of the top-drawer quality cartoons of the 2000’s was given its long-overdue wrap-up as of last Sunday, thanks to an opening in creator Genndy Tartakovsky’s schedule and the willingness of Adult Swim to spend the money. Minus a brief break on April Fool’s Day, ten new episodes of Samurai Jack ran consecutively — and told one solid tale. Season 5 introduced something new to the series: continuity, and tight continuity at that. Looking back at the season as a whole, there is no scene that feels pointless or unnecessary to the story. To give one example, the scat-robot Scaramouche looked and felt like another one-episode throwaway villain, and was treated as such with his apparent destruction at the end of Episode XCII. A few half-hours later the revelation comes that his head survived and it’s playing a pivotal role in the plot by relaying some important news to Aku. By the time he’s abruptly blown up, we’ve gotten to know him enough to

Samurai Jack: Episode 1 Review

Samurai Jack: Episode 1 Review

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Back in the 90’s when Cartoon Network was just a small channel surviving on endless Hanna-Barbera repeats, they took their first steps into original content with a shorts program designed to find talent. And talent they found — Genndy Tartakovsky, fresh out of college, who over the next few years blessed us with some of the best cartoons of the time period: Dexter’s Laboratory, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Sym-Bionic Titan and Samurai Jack. Tartakovsky toons are some of the most well-directed in existence. He knows how to effectively use pacing, wide shots, pans and other tricks to pull you into a scene. He can punctuate a gag with perfection or make an action scene take your breath away. And it was a sad day when CN declined to renew Sym-Bionic Titan and allowed Tartakovsky to get away. He’s survived directing Hotel Transylvania films ever since, but it’s not the same. What’s most smarted about this was the fact that Samurai Jack was never fully completed. So what about Jack needed

Samurai Jack: Beyond Nostalgia

Samurai Jack: Beyond Nostalgia

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Talk to anyone of school age in the nineties, and they’ll lay so much nostalgia on you, it might be nauseating. The millennials are invading your tumblrs and buzzfeeds with “OMG, xx is twenty years old now!” and “Random things you forgot about from the year 19XX”. Chances are, a lot of those things don’t hold up. In 2001, Genndy Tartakovsky created Samurai Jack, a show based on a samurai warrior thrown into a dystopian future by the demon he is sworn to defeat. Unusual for a cartoon at the time, Samurai Jack relied on a more cinematic approach to storytelling, using scene changes, a dramatic score, and visual cues to tell the story in addition to dialogue. In fact, some episodes rely less on dialogue and more on visual, lending the show to easy translation for other markets. Despite being intended for children, Samurai Jack appeals heavily to older teens and adults. The references to Japanese and Hong Kong cinema are evident (counting the nods to Toshiro Mifune’s Sanjuro