The Raunchiest Women on TV Are Technically Birds
On Tuca & Bertie, the new Netflix series from the BoJack Horseman animator and production designer Lisa Hanawalt, the birds don’t need bees. The show follows its titular friends—cartoon bird-women voiced by Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong, respectively—as the two navigate the familiar pitfalls of young adulthood: job troubles, assorted existential crises, and escalating libidos.
The series, which is streaming now, is perhaps the most surreal addition to a slowly expanding range of television shows that explore female desire with a mix of , , , and . The series has earned natural comparisons to the Ilana Glazer– and Abbi Jacobson–led, but part of ’s charm is how the brightness of Hanawalt’s animated world balances the mystifying and mundane circumstances her characters encounter.
