story Dang! It follows three siblings: Andrew (Andrew Lu), Eunice (Bobby Liu), and Ruthie (Stephanie Tso) as they navigate the complexities and self-inflicted conflicts of their lives in New York. Andrew and Eunice lived together in the city for some time, and their older sister Ruthie – a favorite child due to her financial success and marriage – remained relatively distant. Until now, anyway. The sitcom, written by and starring Law (who also stars in the show alongside Matt Murray), begins with Ruthie’s surprise visit to her younger siblings, where the supposed older sister jointly reveals that she’s also a mess, pregnant by her married boyfriend Peter (the usually adorable Sungwon Cho, adding to his minutes) and who is someone’s chauvinistic nightmare. (She also works for what sounds like a combination of Tesla and Uber, with seemingly incredibly sinister hints at her day job accumulating by the end of the season.)

Dang! It seems like part of a trend, as Netflix’s animated series seems to be getting into the family comedy sphere: instant comparisons to the deeply flawed, self-involved siblings trio taking to mind Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s recent (and excellent) film Long story short. As this show jumps into the awkward complexities of a semi-autobiographical family unit spanning decades, the family dynamic in Dang! It is mostly defined by the needling on Generation Z influences.

Law’s previous credits as a writer and story editor on The good place and Silicon Valley It also appears in Dang!. The show has an intertwined interest in self-absorbed idiots trying to make their lives a good thing, and the digital livelihoods and languages ​​that enable the character’s worst traits. Eunice She tracks subscribers to her Onlyfans channel where she broadcasts herself raving about various baked goods, Andrew spreads gossip about people working at the company he founded, and the list goes on.

But as it becomes more of a concern for modern urbanites (the first episode alone contains jokes about phone calls being “like an assault,” or being stuck in debt to Klarna, and there are plenty of jokes about therapy being used for ulterior motives), the writing begins to slip into constant cultural references. Although it’s nice to have Hayley Williams appear as herself in a dream sequence, as with any comedy of this type, it’s hard not to think about the expiration date on these lines, especially when a similar gag comes up with a court featuring Chrissy Teigen and Rina Sawayama. It seems a bit unimaginative that the joke is simply a celebrity cameo.

The animated gags, at least, often mitigate their flatness Dang! Verbal jokes. The series also probably doesn’t have the visual specificity of something like this Long story shortbut it’s fun to look at, and the animation from studio Titmouse has a lot of very restricted pose acting, lots of clean digital lines, flat cartoonish shading and soft shapes.

Dang! S1. (L-R) Bobby Liu as Eunice Dunn and Andrew Lu as Andrew Dang in Dang! S1. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

The subdued production design combined with the realistic proportions and character walks make the surreal moments seem more real; The restrained design is contrasted with some rather bizarre slapstick, such as Eunice bouncing off several cars like a pinball (and getting up unscathed).

Outside of this, the lines appear tense. Andrew falling for a big lie and asking for a bunch of stuff because he doesn’t want to get into a fight might be the first really good Gen Z bit on the show, but it’s still overplayed, which is unfortunate because the project feels like it might be close to Lou’s heart given its take on family, on LGBTQ+ culture’s struggle with dogmatic religion and even concerns about Asian fetishism when dating.

Moreover, the show starts from a point where it deliberately makes it difficult to feel sympathy for these characters, highlighting their worst tendencies and disdain for viewpoints outside of their own. It’s more like a battle to find more flawed minority characters on screen (take for example the somewhat intense discourse surrounding Perfidia of Beverly Hills from Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Battle after Battle), which makes Dang! It’s even more disappointing that the jokes are delivered with real, sour, sour feeling. Best moments Dang! It arrives when Law tends to the cast as a mediocre failure and less so when they’re awkward sitcom roommates, though there are moments of saving grace (like when Andrew begins a question to his sister with “Hey, you’re Asian-“). The other is Boss Eunice – a strange, intense supporting character who somewhat recalls Mr. Boss from her smiling friends, Mostly In how the animators frame her as part neurotic supervisor desperate for validation, and part monster: in one moment she’s walking straight through glass and standing as if the splinters coming out of her aren’t even there.

Dang! S1. (L-R) Andrew Lu as Andrew Dang and Bobby Liu as Eunice Dang in Dang! S1. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026

The best dang player!

He’s not involved in this much, but voice actor Sungwon Cho adds to his minutes as Peter, Eunice’s (married) friend with whom she falls deeply in love. The joke is that this infatuation can’t be explained at all because Peter is completely and obviously terrible. It’s thanks to Cho’s earnest delivery of some of the most disgusting and clichéd chauvinistic statements that the contradiction becomes incredibly funny. It’s not in much of the Dang! But his performance is probably the most memorable.

Judgment

Dang! It has a good premise and several thoughtful episode ideas on paper, especially as it examines the intersectionality of its characters’ identities, but the gags themselves feel repetitive, struggling to surprise even when they tend toward the salacious. The jokes aren’t delivered as often as they need to be, which undermines the series’ (intentional) introduction of selfish and childish characters because it’s simply not fun to watch them stumble into various mistakes.