Shorts Review: Don’t Feed the Humans Episodes 7 through 15

Spoilers Below

It’s interesting to see the growth for a number of components in Don’t Feed the Humans since the last time we’ve checked in (Episode 6). Jeff Shorkey and the voice cast have shown that they are learning their craft and growing at a rate that’s rather quite impressive. The growth manifests itself in a number of ways, and it’s only fair we talk about them

For starters, the art direction of the series has been rather impressive especially during the last couple of episodes. The series has moved on from doing mostly standard shots from the early episodes and has really put in a variety featuring overhead, wide shots, and REALLY close ups, all of which help make the dialogue a bit funnier in its delivery and execution.

Another area of growth is in voice acting. Bart Batchelor and Chris Nielsen have become the resident ‘swiss army knife’ actors that can fill a number of roles and do a great job every time, not just for Don’t Feed the Humans, but for a good portion of Mondo Media’s deal with Bite.

The overall plot in the last bunch of episodes have been good but sometimes indecisive. Bringing in the underground was a great idea because it can help the cast of DFTH get out and stretch their muscles for more unique plots and even help cycle in fresh characters like the Tom Cruise/Professor hybrid and the bartender whom might be one of my favorite new additions. That said, we went from a failed escape plan that introduced the Cruise/Professor character that ended in a rather quick way. There really was no build up other than the egg hatching in making me care what happens between our cast and the spawn of what had come from it. We stopped off at an origins story for Earl which seemed like we were going to get more of that, but it kind of just stopped with him, and now we’re at a rather safe hybrid with the underground area and the main zoo area. More new characters like the Scientist was pretty fun, but I want to see the series take some chances.

The show does take some chances in the dialogue. For the most part, it’s funny, witty, and fast-paced akin to an Archer, but I wouldn’t say there are HUGE laughs anywhere, mostly just chuckles here in and there. Horf is usually my go-to for good laughs, but there’s enough going on in the series that the variety keeps the show spontaneous and wanting me to come back for more.