Close Enough

Close Enough is an American adult animated sitcom created by J. G. Quintel (the same creator of Regular Show) for HBO Max (USA) and Netflix (worldwide).

Summary
The series is about a milennial couple called Josh and Emily with their daughter, Candice and their divorced friends, Alex and Bridgette who live with them in a duplex located in Los Angeles.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Marvelous animation done with a simple but acceptable art-style which is similar to Regular Show in character design and background.
 * 2) It relates the topic about the poverty on millennial families. An interesting topic that can be related to adults.
 * 3) Likable characters who have a great dynamic with each other (specially the protagonists Josh and Emily who are responsible parents and they care about their daughter, Candice).
 * 4) Energetic writing. There are lots of entertaining and well-executed plots.
 * 5) *Season 2 managed to give more focus on other characters who aren't Josh, Emily and Candice.
 * 6) Talented voice acting. For example: J.G Quintel as Josh and Jason Mantzoukas as Alex.
 * 7) The humor is clean and balanced. It keeps "sexual and violent" jokes to a medium showing those ones occassionally without being limited to them unlike most adult cartoons. This shows that unlike Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon and Family Guy, it doesn't need censorship for creative gags and storylines if it adds in some adult jokes to make the humor.
 * 8) Good life lessons and morals to adults such as "dealing with your age no matter how old are you" and "learning to say no to your boss".
 * 9) Cool easter eggs and references such as The Park cameo in "Perfect House" and the Recaptcha reference in "Birthdaze".
 * 10) Unlike Regular Show, it manages to have an actual intro which is crazy to watch and the theme song slaps.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Though the show itself is funny and well-written, it can occasionally feel a little bit too similar to Regular Show following the formula where it starts off with a normal day/problem and later on a bizarre/surreal situation or unexpected twist happens
 * 2) Alex can be irritating at times depending on your point of view.
 * 3) Because the episodes last 11 minutes long instead of 22 minutes long unlike how they were originally planned to last. There's not enough time for subplots and most of them end rushed.
 * 4) There are some average to bad episodes in the names of "Houseguest from Hell", "Where'd You Go, Bridgette?" and "The Erotic Awakening of A.P. LaPearle".
 * 5) Some references in the show are forced. One notable example is in "Man Up" where Pearle calls Josh, Vin Diesel.
 * 6) Development Hell: The trailer was released 3 years before the show on HBO Max.

Trivia

 * Jessica DiCicco, actress of Candice, is also currently portraying Annie Bramley and Lynn Loud Jr./Lucy Loud in the Nickelodeon shows It's Pony and The Loud House.
 * It was originally intended to air on TBS in 2017, but the project was in development hell and faced various delays and setbacks before it eventually premired as a HBO Max exclusive on July 9, 2020. It would later be revealed that TBS had planned to premiere the show as part of its own animation block, but those plans fell through when production on The Cops was shut down due to Louis C.K.’s admitted sexual misconduct. On October 29, 2019, it was announced that the series would instead move to HBO Max. With the announcement of TBS and TNT's Front Row blocks, the series debuted on the former network on October 25, 2021. Outside the United States, the show premired on September 14, 2020 on Netflix as an original series, starting with Latin America. Today, Close Enough is available on Netflix in 36 countries.
 * Some critics compared the show favorably to the creator J. G. Quintel's previous show, Regular Show.