While other Covid-era animations have felt slapdash, Jacuzzi boldly reinforces the humiliation and hilarity of Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle’s series about adolescent agonies
When the pandemic hit last year, plenty of television programmes attempted to fill the pause in production with Zoom episodes. While this might have seemed like a good idea at first, the net result was dozens of identical-looking shows – often with the actors failing to resemble their own characters – making the same tedious “you’re on mute” joke over and over again.
But some shows managed to figure out a smarter way to keep going. One Day at a Time and Black-ish turned to animation to get things done. It allowed for a Covid-safe working environment, with actors operating remotely, and the end results were – if not up there with the best episodes – at least an interesting diversion.