Close Enough
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Close Enough is an American adult animated sitcom created by J.G. Quintel, known for his previous work on "Regular Show." It revolves around a married couple, Josh and Emily, their five-year-old daughter Candice, and their two divorced best friends/roommates, Alex and Bridgette, as they navigate the complexities of their thirties in Los Angeles. The series uniquely blends everyday slice-of-life situations with bizarre, surreal, and often fantastical comedic elements, presenting a heightened reality. The show explores themes of growing up, balancing family life with personal dreams, and the challenges of modern adulthood, but with an exaggerated and frequently outlandish approach. While it shares an animation style with Quintel's earlier, more youth-oriented work, its content is distinctly mature. The series has garnered a TV-14 rating due to its consistent inclusion of profanity, suggestive sexual content, and other adult themes, making it appropriate for older viewers.
Things to Consider
Romance and Sexual Content
The show features significant romance and sexual content, including crude references, suggestive humor, and instances of animated partial nudity. This content is often played for comedic effect and is a consistent element throughout the series.
The series includes visuals such as "hairy butt cheeks" and the silhouette of a clown stripper whose "balloon animal-like member" changes shapes. Censorship notes indicate scenes with Emily exposing her breasts and flipping off the audience, with black bars used to cover nudity and middle fingers.
Profanity
"Close Enough" contains frequent and strong language, including bleeped instances of the 'f-word' and regular use of other mild to moderate curse words, contributing to its adult animated sitcom classification.
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Additional Context
Best For Ages
This media is recommended for audiences aged 14 and older. The TV-14 rating is justified by the presence of frequent profanity, crude sexual references, animated partial nudity, implied substance use, and intense surreal comedic situations that are designed for an adult sensibility, rather than a younger audience.
Good to Know
Close Enough is explicitly targeted at an adult audience, often drawing comparisons to its creator's previous work, "Regular Show," but with significantly more mature content and themes. Parents should be aware that despite the animated format, the show deals with complex adult situations and includes content (language, sexual references, substance use) that is not suitable for younger viewers. The content tends to be consistent in its intensity across seasons, with certain elements like LGBTQ representation evolving into later seasons. The series was canceled after three seasons and is no longer available on its original streaming platform, HBO Max, or Netflix in international territories.
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