Season Review: Wolf Jenkins Season 2

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So, what is Wolf Jenkins? The adventures of a butler who howls at the moon? No, it’s an animated sitcom series from comedian Andy Needle, the premise follows a violent badass veterinarian and his missions during the Vietnam war. Wolf Jenkins ran for 5 episodes on Wildseed Comedy’s youtube channel in 2015 and a second season was recently funded by BBC3.

Each episode is animated in a very crude style, highly reminiscent of flash cartoons from the early 2000s and it’s all done on purpose. The show uses it’s rubbish animation to its advantage, playing it off like a cartoon scribbled quickly by a pre-teen with poor spelling skills and confused feelings. The end result is a hilariously over the top and violent series with a wonderfully dry sense of humor.

Wolf Jenkins managed to make my sides split countless times thanks to its surreal childishness and nonsensical logic. There’s a charm to the show that makes it really fun to watch, it relishes in its own wacky stupidity and never fails to entertain. It’s Needle’s giddy narration that really holds it all together, he sounds so enthusiastic about the stories he tells and delivers everything with impressive timing.

On first viewing, I’ll admit that Wolf Jenkins seems like a clone of David Firth’s “Jerry Jackson” and while it does have the same spirit as Firth’s videos, it’s still a product of Needle’s own mind thanks to his unique style of comedy. To be honest, Wolf is much easier on the eyes and ears than the obnoxiously loud Jackson. The similarities between Jackson and Jenkins are noticeable enough to initially judge Needle’s work as an imitation but Jenkins does grow into its own thing as episodes go along.
So, what does season 2 of “Wolf Jenkins” offer? Well, it’s more of the same thing really, more hyper violence, more silly nonsense, and more crude animation. I personally can’t complain about this though because I was happy to just see the further adventures of our ass kicking veterinarian. Season 2 has some pretty laugh out loud concepts, from Wolf being forced to work alongside a team of crackheads to taking on a giant super animal during Halloween, it’s all brilliant material.

However, I’ll admit that my laughter softened down and became less boisterous as the season went along. A joke from season 1 is also recycled as if we forgot Needle had ever made it in the previous season and that was a little insulting. In addition, watching Wolf tear off limbs and punch holes in bodies is starting to get a bit old by now, there’s only so many times we can laugh at a vet using someone’s arm as a weapon.
Despite my criticisms towards Season 2, it was still a blast to watch thanks to Needle’s quirky sense of humour and the little details he includes in his narration. Season 2’s last episode does feel like a conclusive finale too and this will satisfy long time viewers. This second series pleased me enough and I will be looking forward to a possible season 3.
So should you check out Series 2 of Wolf Jenkins? Well, if you enjoyed the first series and feel happy seeing more of the same thing then you won’t be disappointed. However, if you want Wolfie to step into new ground or do something majorly different then it may be best to stop at series 1. If you’ve never seen series 1 then don’t worry, you can jump straight into this new season and have plenty of fun if you like what I’ve described.

If you want to watch season 1 of Wolf Jenkins then you can find it on Wildseed Comedy’s channel here and season 2 can be found on BBC3’s Youtube channel here. Be warned, it contains very adult humour and crudely animated strong violence.