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Primal: Season 1 <\/strong><\/em>(2019 – 2020)<\/p>\n Written and storyboarded by: Genndy Tartakovsky<\/strong> (episodes 1-2, 9); David Krentz<\/strong> (episodes 3, 7, 10); Don Shank<\/strong> & Genndy Tartakovsky<\/strong> (episode 4); Bryan Andrews<\/strong> & Genndy Tartakovsky<\/strong> (episode 5); Bryan Andrews<\/strong> (episode 6); Nagisa Koyama<\/strong> & Genndy Tartakovsky<\/strong> (episode 8);<\/p>\n Story: Genndy Tartakovsky<\/strong> (episodes 1);\u00a0 Darrick Bachman<\/strong> & Genndy Tartakovsky<\/strong> (episode 2, 9); Bryan Andrews, Darrick Bachman, David Krentz<\/strong> & Genndy Tartakovsky<\/strong> (episodes 3, 7, 10); Bryan Andrews, Darrick Bachman<\/strong> & Genndy Tartakovsky<\/strong> (episodes 4-6, 8);<\/p>\n Stars: Aaron LaPlante, La\u00ebtitia E\u00efdo, Fred Tatasciore, Imari Williams<\/strong> Tagline: None.<\/p>\n The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n A caveman who saw his family devoured by a pack of Tyrannosaurs, develops a friendship with a dinosaur who survived an attack by the same T-Rex pack.\u00a0 Together Spear and Fang (as we come to know them) travel through a primordial world working together to survive.<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I was late to the Primal<\/em> party.\u00a0 Yeah, I’d heard how awesome Primal<\/em> was.\u00a0 But, come on.\u00a0 A cartoon about a caveman and a dinosaur who are friends?\u00a0 “Maybe if I was seven,” I thought.\u00a0 Finally, I gave it a chance.\u00a0 I should have checked out Prima<\/em>l sooner.<\/p>\n Yes, it is about a caveman and a dinosaur who become best friends.\u00a0 But this ain’t no kiddie cartoon.\u00a0 There is no spoken dialogue.\u00a0 There is plenty of cartoon violence.\u00a0 The violence has “real” repercussions.\u00a0 People and animals die.\u00a0 And you will find yourself caring more about the cartoon characters in this world than in most movies or television shows.<\/p>\n Hats off to Genndy Tartakovsky.\u00a0 Primal<\/em> contains stories with heart that are beautifully animated.\u00a0 Each episode is a standalone tale, but builds to tell a bigger story.\u00a0 Season 1 ends with a cliffhanger and I cannot wait to get to Season 2.<\/p>\n Primal<\/em> won three Primetime Emmy Awards<\/em> for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation<\/em>: Stephen DeStefano (character designer) (for “A Cold Death”<\/em>); Genndy Tartakovsky (storyboard artist) (for “Spear and Fang”<\/em>); and Scott Wills (art director) (for “Spear and Fang”<\/em>).<\/p>\n Primal<\/em>: Season 1<\/em> (2019 – 2020) earns 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n Primal: Season 1 (2019 – 2020) Written and storyboarded by: Genndy Tartakovsky (episodes 1-2, 9); David Krentz (episodes 3, 7,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31497,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31496\/revisions\/31497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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