Review: Blue World

If there is one thing Adult Swim Smalls is good at, it’s finding the absolute weirdest, most desperate characters on the internet and giving them a platform to have a breakdown. Enter “Blue World,” the new three-part short series from Boston animator Nick Cabana (aka 03mania) that just dropped on YouTube. It asks the age-old question: How unethical can a therapist get before it becomes a felony?

The answer, apparently, is “very.”

The setup is deliciously dark. We meet Dr. Green, a therapist whose practice is circling the drain so hard it’s practically in the sewer. His lifeline? Trendon Blue, his last remaining client.

In a normal show, Dr. Green would try to fix Trendon. In Blue World, Dr. Green is basically clinging to Trendon’s ankles, desperate to keep the billing hours flowing. The dynamic is less “doctor-patient” and more “co-dependent spiral into madness.” Episode 1, “Rock Bottom,” sets the tone perfectly—everything sucks, nothing is good, but hey, at least they have each other (and the crushing weight of capitalism).

Visually, Cabana brings that signature indie grit that makes Smalls such a goldmine. It’s not polished to death; it feels raw, expressive, and slightly unhinged—just like the characters. The humor relies on that specific brand of millennial/Zoomer dread where the world is ending, but we still have to pay for coffee.

With upcoming episodes promising museum heists and existential crises about identity (“You are everything and nothing all at once”), Blue World looks like it’s going to escalate quickly from “sad office comedy” to “felonious buddy adventure.”

It’s short, it’s frantic, and it’s free on YouTube. If you’ve ever had a therapist who looked a little too stressed about your co-pay, this will hit close to home. Dr. Green is the anti-hero we deserve: a man who will literally soon rob a museum to keep his business afloat.