Netflix's 'Dang' Review: Chaotic Siblings, Sharp Voices — SkimNews
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- "Dang!" is an eight-episode Netflix animated comedy created by Andrew Law, who voices Andrew alongside Poppy Liu as his sister Eunice; Stephanie Hsu plays their older sister Ruthie, an uptight lawyer whose midlife crisis — including an extramarital pregnancy — lands her in New York with her younger siblings.
- The show shares creative DNA with "Broad City" and "Hacks" — Law and Liu both previously worked on "Hacks," and "Hacks" executive producer Michael Schur serves in the same capacity on "Dang!," with all three "Hacks" co-creators having cut their teeth on "Broad City."
- Each character's dysfunction is sketched through specific, evocative details: Eunice crushes bread with her feet for OnlyFans "pay pigs," Andrew accepts a vanity merch-design job after being fired from the startup he co-founded for running an anonymous gossip account during IBS-induced bathroom breaks, and Ruthie's preferred children's book is "B Is for Border Security: How to Raise a Political Centrist."
- The review argues "Dang!" sidesteps the compressed-run problem plaguing many new comedies by keeping a tight focus on its nuclear family unit, with the middle stretch pausing Ruthie's ticking time bomb of a secret to follow Andrew and Eunice's aimless escapades — including Eunice trying an experimental diet drug at a Goop-like unpaid internship and Andrew mentoring a "baby gay" from his church youth group.
- The animated format enables surreal flourishes like Eunice convening a panel of celebrity cameos including Chloe Kim and Padma Lakshmi to debate whether a guy she likes has an Asian fetish, rather than the "Sex and the City" brunch-talk-out option.
Why it matters: For Netflix's animation pipeline, "Dang!" leverages proven "Hacks"/"Broad City" creative lineage — Law and Liu as leads, Schur as EP — to deliver a family-sitcom-style comedy whose compact eight-episode, single-setting format gives characters like the bread-crushing Eunice and the people-pleasing Andrew room to breathe that typical six-episode comedies can't afford.
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