Frisky Dingo: Season One

**1/2 - If one examines the structure of pretty much any organization, whether it’s a government agency, a retail chain, a maintenance service or anything in between, it becomes quickly apparent that there are a large number of support personnel that are integral to the fulfillment of the group’s mandate. Administration, human resources, personnel management, and marketing are just a few of the areas that are not necessarily visible on the surface but perform important functions nonetheless. The superhero/supervillain genre of media is one area in which this aspect is almost never explored, the reason being that it is most likely going to be exceedingly dull. It is precisely the fact that first season of the crudely written and crudely animated Adult Swim series “Frisky Dingo” – which consists of thirteen 11-minute episodes – seemed at first as though it was going to focus on this oft neglected area is what gave it nearly limitless comedy potential. The show follows the largely internal struggles of the rich, mostly incompetent superhero Awesome X and his seven-foot tall, grey-skinned, heavily muscled supervillain counterpart Killface as they both attempt to keep their respective businesses afloat in a fictional world that has little to no interest in their travails. While the concept is outstanding the unfortunate truth is that the writing and voice work on this series just can’t maintain a consistent enough level of humor to allow it to fulfill its great promise. Each episode is a jumbled mess of ideas that lack refinement and have a very sloppy and rushed feel, not to mention the fact that somewhere early on it seemed to shift its concentration heavily toward the incompetence of the lead characters rather than the minutiae of their lines of work. It does have its moments, but its inconsistency is bothersome.