Poster of Level E

Level E

Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Director: N/A

Release Date: January 11, 2011

Where to Watch

Don’t let the description fool you. Level E is just not strong enough to hold my interest. Despite being a series and not an anthology like The Twilight Zone, there are few overarching characters or stories, and the few characters that reappear do so at random times. (“What are we going to write about now?” “I know. Lets just bring them into this situation.”) The overarching characters that do exist are annoying & not particularly interesting. The final two episodes try to tie all the episodes together, but there is no moment of revelation that enriches it by pulling the plots together by showing the connection. I think that the show may be aiming more for humor/parody and less sci-fi horror, but it was actually at its strongest when it did the latter. There are quite a few nods towards transgender Shakespearean comedy of errors that would have been progressive or interesting if not played for laughs, gawking at the sexual implications (oh no, a boy pretending to be a girl on his wedding night & sudden implication that he is expert enough in S&M role play to trick his husband into not consummating-um, is this show for kids anymore or was it ever) or suddenly abandoned when reaching a certain point of resolution. A lot of the stories have no actual solution to the problem of the episode, but just suddenly end. Perhaps the series is brilliant and lost in translation. Skip it.

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