Hazbin Resort’s frenetic first season completed up on Friday, with a dozen reveals and dangling plot threads, all primed for a second season. The devilish comedy comes from creator Vivienne Medrano, who first posted the pilot episode on her YouTube channel, and follows Charlie, the princess of Hell, who opens a lodge in hopes that demons will rehabilitate and get to heaven. Oh, and it’s additionally a musical!
The primary season completed with a bang, however it may be a while earlier than we see the second season of Hazbin Resort. So if you happen to want one thing to sate your devilish wishes for now, Medrano handpicked a number of the present’s largest influences.
Invader Zim
![Tiny green alien Zim stands on a ledge. he is triumphant, raising his arm to the sky. Behind him is a red background filled with abstract planets.](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/G3LKxGh7Ag8YB1GGElI__NENoyk=/0x0:3840x2160/1200x0/filters:focal(0x0:3840x2160):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/18979039/Zim_Still_4.png)
Picture: Netflix
The place to observe: Paramount Plus
Merdano calls this one a “enormous one” and it’s not laborious to see why: Each reveals share an identical sort of feverish sensibility, together with a powerful, vibrant coloration palette. The spindly type of Invader Zim feels clearly at play in Hazbin, with characters like Alastor and Angel Mud feeling like they may pretty comfortably roll between reveals.
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
![A scowling blonde girl stands next to a oafish boy, who stands next to the Grim Reaper, who’s making a disgusted face](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/egGwqV0oBMnFNNMrtG0BozDSiKo=/0x0:1200x676/1200x0/filters:focal(0x0:1200x676):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25263706/billymandy.jpg)
Picture: Cartoon Community Studios
The place to observe: Max
The opposite childhood present Merdano cites is about two youngsters (one a clueless happy-go-lucky oaf, the opposite a cynical and smart-ass tomboy) who summon the Grim Reaper and beat him at a recreation of limbo, thus making him their everlasting servant finest buddy. They get wrapped up within the paranormal world of demons, gods, and different supernatural creatures, however it’s all performed with a goofy spin. The infernal through-line from Grim Adventures to Hazbin Resort is fairly apparent.
BoJack Horseman
![BoJack looking sad in front of the Griffith Observatory](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/vX_bIjo5Mx7KHxAI8Dp-JL1T8iI=/0x0:3840x2160/1200x0/filters:focal(0x0:3840x2160):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19484060/BoJack_Horseman_S06E01_0m19s463f.jpg)
Picture: Netflix
The place to observe: Netflix
Whereas there have been different reveals she watched when she was youthful, Medrano says Netflix’s BoJack Horseman — about an anthropomorphic, depressed washed-up sitcom actor (who can be a horse) — is the one which got here on the “good time” to indicate her that she may inform an advanced emotional story in grownup animation.
“[It’s] really considered one of my favorites of all time; phenomenal present,” Medrano says. “It sort of confirmed me that grownup animation can’t solely simply be raunchy comedy, however it may be a narrative that has intense growth of its characters. It may well have extremely flawed characters. It may well make you cry. It may well actually get deep and darkish.
“It had simply began across the time that I used to be like, actually making the pilot and so they sort of made me go, Oh, wow, grownup animation is beginning to change. And it’s beginning to evolve.”
South Park
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The place to observe: Paramount Plus
Medrano calls South Park a “enormous turning level” for her with grownup animation — an expertise lots of people had round Comedy Central’s basic. The present tackled topical concepts and occasions, all with a gleeful, jaded humor that has stored it operating since 1997. “From that time on,” Medrano says, “I sort of simply stored watching [adult animation].”
Rick and Morty
![(L-R) Morty and Rick staring at a holographic projection of the multiverse with Evil Morty in Rick and Morty.](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/BQuhNbqOgKxWOxoozYEyD4MciDg=/0x0:1920x1080/1200x0/filters:focal(0x0:1920x1080):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25125049/8716689.jpg)
Picture: Grownup Swim
The place to observe: Max
Just like BoJack, Medrano cites this ever-popular Grownup Swim comedy as a proponent of the depth and humor she tries to steadiness together with her work. As anybody who has watched Rick and Morty can attest, there’s extra to the present and extra to Pickle Rick than the fame it provides. “One thing like Rick and Morty that’s nonetheless very raunchy, and vulgar, and stunning in a whole lot of methods — it went this path of like, Yeah, however let’s go a little bit deeper, let’s get a little bit darker. I feel that additionally helped shift the area sort of extra in direction of Oh, that works! That has an viewers that did rather well.”