Red Ocean

Red Ocean is an adult sci-fi, adventure, comedy series that airs on the CW. The show is produced by the owner of Dude In A Hat Productions and was picked up by the CW to be their adult show, as most of their competitors had one or two adult animated series. The series follows a woman named Blu who is the owner of the starship Red Ocean. She is a member of a group of individuals known as Red Suits who are known for being extremely intolerable.

The series pilot was created by Dude In A Hat Productions and shown to the CW around April 2017. It was picked up the following month and first aired on August 20, 2018, with the series' pilot being released for free online to drive up interest in the series.

Cast

 * Judy Greer as Blu Roland, the main protagonist and the owner of the starship the Red Ocean. Blu (pronounced "Blue") is a member of an intergalactic gang of hoodlums known as the Red Suits. She is known for her love of men as well as gambling, getting into arguments and generally being obnoxious.
 * Michael Leon Wooley as Liq, a large beast of a man with the face of a squid. He is known for being extremely tough and collecting guns. His race is unknown, even to himself.
 * David Tennant as Artie, the Ocean's malfunctioning helper droid. He became extremely out of it and mentally unbalanced when just to see what would happen, Blu told him the Liar Paradox.
 * John DiMaggio as Lew, a strange slime creature of unknown origin that can only say "mah", though somehow everyone can understand it as perfect English.

Synopsis
Main Article: List of Red Ocean episodes

Season One
The entire first season is set up through flashbacks, with Blu Roland walking into a bar and explaining why she was there to the bartender, telling him all of her most recent adventures. There are several jokes made about how pointless this is, but Roland continues none the less. She explains to him how she met her friends Liq, Artie and Lew.

Reception
The series received mixed reviews at first though most claim that the series got better once all the characters were introduced. One critic called it a space opera disguised as a comedy series, as it features a lot of elements present in space operas, such as over the top moments, fantastical locations and surreal, abnormal ideas. The series' character design was praised even from the beginning, with many claiming that you could tell what the characters were like just from looking at them. The show's more dramatic scenes have split most viewers, with some claiming they hit harder thanks to the comedy, while others claim that they take you out of the moment for reasons that vary person to person.