I don't remember this well enough to rate. (I should really watch it again sometime.)

The Critic, on Atomfilms.com (now defunct)
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This was a reboot of the TV series The Critic. It consisted of ten flash animated webisodes, that streamed on Atomfilms.com in 2000-01, five years after the TV series ended. I don't think I was aware of the webseries' existence until I got the TV series on DVD, which includes them in the bonus features. (Webisodes 1-4 were made by Jet City Studios. Webisodes 5, 9, and 10 were made by Unbound Studios. Webisodes 6-8 were made by Flinch Studio, which is now part of MightyPants, I guess.) According to the webseries, at some point Jay had lost his job, as well as getting a second divorce (presumably from Alice, though they were never married in the TV series). Now he's back doing "Coming Attractions" as a web show (which is kind of meta, but no more so than his having done it as a TV show on a TV show, which is a common enough trope). Other than Jay, none of the characters from the Critic TV series appear in the web series (except Vlada, in one webisode). On the set of his internet version of "Coming Attractions," he has a make-up lady named Jennifer (who is pretty hot, and of course much younger and sweeter than Doris was). Aside from reviewing bad movies, the webseries mainly focuses on Jay developing a romantic relationship with Jennifer. Anyway, the webisodes are each only like 3-5 minutes long. They're reasonably amusing, though of course not as good as the TV series was. And while I liked Jennifer well enough, I didn't like her nearly as much as Alice, who I'd like to believe Jay ended up with and stayed with. So... I'd prefer to consider the webseries apocryphal (kind of like I do with Enterprise). Still, it was nice to get at least a bit more Critic, years after the series had ended on TV.


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