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Long Story Short(2025)

Upcoming · Netflix

7.510 eps
S01
ComedyAnimationDrama
ON AIR: AUG 22Season 1

What to Expect

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Long Story Short is an adult animated comedy that moves through decades of one family's life, letting humor and genuine hurt arrive in the same breath. The flashback structure, spanning the 1990s through the 2020s, means the punchlines carry history behind them; a throwaway jab lands harder because you've already seen where it started.

Sibling friction, marital strain, and parent-child resentments each get their own room here, and the show treats them with roughly equal seriousness and absurdity. The comedy grows out of people who have known each other long enough to weaponize an inside joke, and the accumulated damage is specific enough to feel earned rather than generic.

Best for

dark family comedy, inside-joke history and Comedy

Story lane

Comedy and Animation

Commitment

Season 1 · 10 episodes

Where

Netflix

Official Premise

A dysfunctional family's shared history, inside jokes, and old wounds are explored in this adult animated comedy spanning multiple years.

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