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________________________________________ My review after Season 1:

This show is something that you can tell the kids will enjoy. The premise seems a bit awkward, but midway through Season 1 things get thrilling! The 3D animation is ASTOUNDING, but the dialogue and voice acting is a bit overdone, and feels poorly executed and corny. I doubt younger kids would have the same gripes, of course.

This show also has a surprising amount of violence, considering that it's a kids' show. It features gambling, use of weapons like guns, threats of shooting people, electrocution, etc., and it shows up so often that I'm astonished this is rated TV-Y7. At the same time, it also delves into a lot of heavy topics-so far, the most prominent one was in Episodes 5 and 6, which depict animal exploitation and trafficking!

Basically, the story's quite good, but the material can be a lot. It's still likely to be a thrilling and exciting watch for kids.

________________________________________ My review after S2E5:

Wh- guh- huH?!?!!!?!? *blacks out*

The first two episodes of the season gave me the impression that it was gonna be a repeat of Season 1's formula. And then stuff hit the fan, oH mY GoD---!

Just like last season, the dialogue is cringe, the voice acting is embarrassing, the pacing and writing quality are inconsistent, and the animation's not top-tier. We see some familiar characters from last season, and we get to see more underage gambling and outright violence than should be allowed in a kids' show. (Actually, we even get to see the kids' mom being DRUNK!)

What's different though, is what variety of madness the story writers put in this time. They must have gotten REALLY giddy after the show got greenlighted for a second season, because they just went ALL out.

Stuff gets....interesting, after Episode 3 starts! To list off all the ridiculous things one might witness in this show: they thinly veil an offensive sexual comment using an alien language; there's a torture dungeon where a blob man gets literally stabbed with knives; there's an entire planet that's just ancient Africa with magic rocks; we get to see the titular bounty hunter in a skimpy outfit, forced to excessively shake his rear end to the camera (whose great idea was it to put that in a kids' show??? They did it too many times, ugh!!!); I think the most memorable thing is that there's a slimefaced Elvis tiger with abrasive hair who's introduced by an entourage of sexy dancer cheetahs.

...Yeah, I think I've said enough to make the point that the story writers have just lost all their screws this season. The people who designed the characters definitely got to...flex their creativity, as well. And honestly, I think that's probably the only reason I'm still sticking to finishing this season-I'm only here to see what madness unfolds next.

The story's going in all different directions and keeps getting dragged out episode after episode, which is irritating. There's three entire plots happening at the same time, which probably explains the longer runtime of each episode; but it also makes it harder to follow along with what's going on. And I imagine that any of the sequences that aren't about Lisa and Sean are going to fly straight over younger viewers' heads, and they're probably going to be bored and confused by all the scenes of just the adults.

But despite that, and after the boring first two episodes, this show's quite a sight to see, and I think it's worth the watch just for that! Season 1 had literal slavery, and I thought that was wild for a kids' show. I have been proven wrong. Just the first half of this season has, like, 10 times the wildness (see above)!!! And the inclusion of an entire planet that's literally just Africa absolutely threw me off, but it's such a new idea in TV shows that I can't help but applaud it! This show is bringing new exposure to types of people and ways of thinking that have never graced TV screens in this way before, and I'm here for it!

So, overall, is this show good? Not really to be honest, if we're talking in objective terms. But you should still watch it, because sometimes good entertainment is just outright madness.

________________________________________ My new review after finishing Season 2:

Something I noticed about many of the reviews for this series is that a lot of people find the kids to be really annoying. That's a very, VERY fair point, because OH GOD they have no sense of self-preservation; and all the adults in the series really do not try hard enough to keep them safe! I blame the lack of self-preservation on the flat, disjointed storytelling.

The show's still all over the place. A lot of the conflicts were addressed more smoothly than I expected, and there were things like awkward father-and-son-in-law conversations in the thick of fighting that just felt tacked on and completely didn't land. There's a fight scene between Terry and the creepy Elvis tiger that was just flat-out boring, and the dialogue leading up to that scene was just the most insipid I've ever heard.

The ending was a painful watch, too. There are WAYYY too many beheadings, though at least they were of robots; and there was SO MUCH mass murder, accented by explosion graphics so cheap that I could TELL how cheap they were. The ending shows some similarity with Season 1 as well, in that the villain was the CEO of the evil space corporation, and she was a lizard person, and she's defeated via a brutal murder. She gets SLICED IN TWO, for heck's sake, and the audience has to watch her severed torso slide off!!! This sort of stuff should NOT be in a kids' show, kids would be TERRIFIED of this!!!

I do not want to watch Season 3. I can't believe they even alluded to a Season 3 in the first place. I'm reducing my review from a 7-star to a 6-star.

Since the season 1 finale Tess is revealed to be an alien who is on the run. Then she met Terry who happens to be a inter galactic bounty hunter; until he goes AWOL and the two of them fall in love with each other. Then she gives birth of her half-alien children Sean and Lisa who want to have normal human life on earth.

Today season 2 is out on Netflix and this is the truth about Tess's alien origin of why she is most wanted from her own kind in the first place. With new friends along the way and old enemies as well.

Tess should make amends of old families wounds of what she did in the first place.

I rarely give out 1 star reviews because I don't go out of my way to watch bottom of the barrel shows and movies. My Dad The Bounty Hunter falls face first into the bottom of the barrel. This show is so bad, not even the passable at best animation was able to save it from the lowest score I could give on this sight.

Created by Everett Downing Jr. And Patrick Harpin, this show follows 2 kids discovering their father is an intergalactic bounty hunter and they go on space adventures. I'd normally go into how each episode plays out, but I refuse to watch the rest of the show because episode 1 was AWFUL! By Yoda's pointy ears, this is among the worst first impressions I've ever seen! The show starts off on the wrong note immediately as we're placed into the middle of a chase scene as opposed to being introduced to this world from the kids' perspective. I mean, for a show called "My Dad The Bounty Hunter," you'd think this story starts with the kids telling some friends or the class about their Dad's job as a bounty hunter. Even if they did, that wouldn't change how sluggishly paced the show is. This is such a slow moving show with the chase scene in the beginning not having the intensity or speed of a typical chase scene. The episode also takes way too long for the kids to find out their Dad's a bounty hunter. And because there'd be no show if he took them home immediately after he caught them, he begrudgingly takes them slong for the ride. In addition to having atrocious pacing, the humor sucks harder than vacuum in a stove pipe. The jokes range from cringy, eye rolling to just plain frustrating because of how poorly they're set up and executed. If this is how a standard episode is structured, I'd be bald, naked and completely insane by the last episode because I can NOT be sitting on the couch bored out of my mind for almost 5 HOURS!

If I can describe this cast of characters in one word, it would be hatable. These are all some hatable characters and I can't for the life of me understand what the creators were going for. Starting with our title character, Terry, guess what? He's another incompetent cartoon father! He doesn't have a clue why his kids are such brats, why his son is so stressed out or how to properly spend time with them. All he does is think about the future he wants with his kids rather than focusing on the present. If that's the point, it's handled very poorly because I absolutely cannot stand him. His kids, Lisa and Sean, are some of the brattiest, stupidest and annoying kids I've ever seen. They never assume their Dad has their best interests nor to they act like good kids. Lisa's a straight up hustler and a thief and Sean is just a disobedient and annoying kid. Their Mom, Tess, isn't much better as she tries to be the voice of reason for Terry, but because he's so thick headed, her purpose is superfluous.

The voice acting is honestly pretty bad and it's once again unfortunate because I know they're trying their best. Laz Alonso wasn't as sly or caring as Terry as I would've hoped. Priah Ferguson was very stilted in her performance as Lisa, as she sounded less sneaky and clever, and more awkward and unenthusiastic. Jecobi Swain never sounded right as Sean, as he sounded very awakward and reserved. What little Yvonne Orji had to work with as Tess, it wasn't enough to do her justice.

Visually, the animation is alright, but still lacking in significant visual flare. France based company, Dwarf Animation Studios, providing the animation and they did alright for the most part. The designs of the characters are very natural and unique with the humans having different body types, unique hair styles and contemporary clothing. I also like the design of the aliens such as the liquid fugitive and the space angler creature. The character animation itself is...a bit of a mixed bag. Sometimes it looks find like when the characters are walking or having a conversation. But when they try to move real fast it's not snappy or clean. The lack of mass on the characters is also evident, which would work fine in space, but not on Earth or in the ship where hravity brings you down. It's not bad animation, but it's not above passable either.

This was so bad it makes the Star Wars Holiday Special look like The Empire Strikes Back. My Dad The Bounty Hunter is about as low as I've seen Netflix get with their animation division. The writing is atrocious, the characters are hatable, the voice acting is bad and the passable animation doesn't even come close to giving it an extra point. There really is nothing redeemable about this cartoon, and as such it deserves the worst fate to be bestowed on a show this bad: to be ignored and forgotten. Do NOT watch My Dad The Bounty Hunter, not even out of small curiosity. Watch Kid Cosmic instead, as it its infinitely better and much more worth your time than this cartoon -.-