Season Eight Review: Squidbillies

Squidbillies season eight started out like a Phoenix, and to be honest I thought it was going to beat the shit out of last season’s 8.5 score. Early marrying a bear, slashing his limbs for hazard pay, and Dan Halen building a pyramid. All of this is pretty legitimate Squidbillies and had my sides hurting.

As we got into the midway point of the season, I was still pretty satisfied with the show overall. Early building a bunker for the end of the world is just classic, even if heavily borrowed, and we even got to dig in a bit to the Sheriff’s blood lines with his ma and pa. Problem is when we got into the last I would say few episodes of the season. Other than ‘Sheriff-in-law” which was so funny it could easily be seen as one of the funniest in the show’s existence, we stuck with all of these ideas that have been done so many times elsewhere. I mean we were doing hybrid jokes and pig races, and hell we even did a deportation episode because we hadn’t had a bunch of those yet.

Less we forget, we also didn’t get anything that made prior seasons of Squidbillies so addicting. The producers have experimented with arcs in the past that I thought were a lot of fun but not seen anywhere this season, and this is the first season in a while where we didn’t get a 30-minute episode.

There’s probably going to be a ninth season, but I think the producers of Squidbillies need to stick with what makes the Cuylers fun, and not just stick them into tropes that you would see on Family Guy or The Simpsons. Let’s hope next year we can get a bunch more originality to go along with some of the cool merch they were dishing out towards the end of the season.