Review: SuperMansion “Lex as a Weapon”

Spoilers Below

After her revelation from last week, Lex continues to pick off each of the superheroes one-by-one leaving just Rex getting hammered by every bad guy. Speaking of guy, Lex is a guy…kinda. A by product of a previous tryst that Rex was a part of.

Rex, Saturn, a deflated Brad, a transformed Cooch, and Jewbot’s finger share a cell. After discovering that Jewbot’s head is fine, Rex grabs his finger out of his own asshole to release the crew from their confinements but not before Saturn is taken into a torture room by Rex. Fortunately, he’s able to get out thanks to Groaner which means Black Saturn joins the rest of the team in their fight against Lex and the rest of the bad guys. Rex subdues his one-time daughter and takes the fight to Devizo while Black Saturn is inside dealing with a mess of bad guys together with a near-deaf American Ranger fresh off from saving his wife, and the tag team of Brad and back-to-normal Cooch. Devizo sets off a bomb which leads Brad to sacrifice himself to drive a drill into the Earth’s core which melts the servers running the bomb and allows everyone else to escape the mansion relatively unscathed.

The bad guys scatter, and months later, a statue is erected in Brad’s name and new recruits are on the way!

Our Take

We’ll get into a more in depth season review next week, but PHEW! what a finale. The fight scenes in this show are reaching levels never reached in the world of stop motion animation, Stoopid Buddy Stoodios is quite simply the standard here. For some reason when people think of puppet sex, they think of Anomalisa. In that same breath, people that think of SuperMansion should think “action sequences”. Somehow the action has enough frenetic pace as a lot of Dragon Ball Z episodes making Zeb Wells out to pretty much be the John Woo of this industry.

And how about that cast? Ron Perlman was a good guest star as was Jake Johnson, but Chris Pine deserves recognition for being GREAT this entire season as Devizo. Chris’ sick delivery has all the cleverity and zaniness as Mark Hamill’s “Joker” making him both a funny yet horrifying master-villain the likes of which Zeb has plenty of experience in dealing with. Also, everything out of Jewbot’s mouth is hilarious.

The only draw back that I saw with this week’s episode was with everything surrounding Brad’s death. I think Heidi Gardner’s take on “Cooch” cared less than I did which is odd considering the history she had with Brad. The dialogue was more or less Cooch giving out a big “Meh” when Brad died. In fairness to her, I didn’t care much either because I never really liked the Brad character, but I would’ve thought she would’ve given a bigger damn than THAT.

For the season review, we’ll go into greater detail as what changes should be made for SuperMansion Season Two, in the meantime, you should make this show part of your binge-list for the holidays. This could be the best thing Stoopid Buddy Stoodios has going for it, and that’s DEEP when you consider that this is the studio that gives us the perennial best sketch series in Robot Chicken.