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The Maxx (1995)
8.2/10on IMDb
First aired
A homeless man's superhero world and a social worker's ordinary life keep intruding on one another. The shifting animation styles make the instability meaningful rather than decorative, with fantasy protecting and exposing painful experience. This striking older MTV discovery is only a partial adaptation of the comic, with sexual violence and trauma beneath its surreal surfaces.
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People Watching (2017)
8.8/10on IMDb
First aired
Winston Rowntree's Canadian web animation turns conversations about work, loneliness and friendship into small, unexpectedly expansive arguments. The drawings can rearrange the world around a thought without abandoning the person having it. Its short format is the attraction: a compact, emotionally precise alternative to either an endless sitcom or a sprawling speculative serial.
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Tear Along the Dotted Line (2021)
8.5/10on IMDb
First aired
An Italian cartoonist narrates his anxieties so rapidly that the images become a running argument with his own account. The armadillo conscience is funny, but the finite journey has serious emotional consequences. It was a major success in Italy; the discovery here is its particular voice and visual rhythm, with grief and suicide making it heavier than its comic opening suggests.
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The Shivering Truth (2018)
8.1/10on IMDb
First aired
Stop-motion bodies and objects slide through dream logic, turning a passing fear or rationalisation into a complete miniature nightmare. The handmade physicality makes its changes especially unsettling. This is the abrasive, grotesque end of the selection, with graphic bodily imagery and cruelty; its adult seriousness lies in the emotional logic rather than a conventional continuing plot.
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Animals. (2016)
7.3/10on IMDb
First aired
New York's rats, pigeons and other overlooked residents conduct anxious conversations about status, attraction and mortality. Loose, expressive animation lets a recognisable social embarrassment become something animal and absurd. Its three-season run is a less obvious HBO discovery, with improvised-feeling dialogue and plenty of sexual or bodily humour alongside the melancholy.
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Mission Hill (1999)
7.8/10on IMDb
First aired
A would-be cartoonist shares an urban loft and has to take responsibility for a younger brother who does not fit his preferred self-image. Bold colours and elastic designs make the neighbourhood feel inhabited rather than generic. The short, disrupted original run obscured a sharp older comedy about jobs, identity and the distance between being an adult and performing adulthood.
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Lastman (2016)
8.4/10on IMDb
First aired
A directionless boxer is forced into responsibility for a child while his corrupt city opens onto a much stranger world. The French animation makes physical action clean and forceful, with pulp adventure acquiring emotional stakes through care and loyalty. Choose it for momentum and visual confidence, with graphic violence and adult sexual material rather than a gentle coming-of-age tone.
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Gary and His Demons (2018)
8.0/10on IMDb
First aired
An ageing chosen one would like to retire, but the organisation relying on him has no convenient replacement. Demon-fighting becomes a bitter workplace problem about duty, burnout and being trapped by your supposed special talent. The Canadian comedy is foul-mouthed and frequently gory, with its funniest turns coming from Gary's exhausted resistance to another grand destiny.
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Ten Year Old Tom (2021)
8.1/10on IMDb
First aired
A child receives advice from adults whose confidence repeatedly exceeds their judgement. Steve Dildarian's deliberately awkward drawing and conversational timing make authority look both ordinary and ridiculous. The childish viewpoint is a device for adult institutional satire, especially the tiny compromises everyone would prefer to describe as helping.
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Descending Stories (2016)
8.3/10on IMDb
First aired
Also known as Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū, this 2016 Japanese series follows performers whose art depends on voice, timing and years of practice. Animation makes small changes of posture and expression carry an entire story within a story. Its two-season journey is a deliberate dramatic detour, with artistic inheritance, jealousy and grief taking the place of action spectacle.
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Haha, You Clowns (2025)
7.6/10on IMDb
First aired
Three teenage brothers and their father support one another after a death, with enormous physiques and unexpectedly tender behaviour. The 2025 Adult Swim series makes sincerity feel strange in a late-night cartoon setting. Tom Law's distinctive drawings and abrupt comic rhythms reward a viewer interested in how animation can turn family affection into its own visual language.
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Oh My God... Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances (2025)
4.7/10on IMDb
First aired
Three women navigate a technology-saturated future South Central Los Angeles whose conveniences keep generating new problems. Adele Williams' 2025 series gives the speculative clutter a specific social viewpoint, with bodies, friendships and consumer systems colliding. Its energetic design is the discovery, alongside sexually explicit, deliberately outrageous adult comedy.
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