Best TV Shows for animation quality

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Best for animation quality

Rick and Morty, Season 9

4.6 feature score

Highest scored product for this feature based on supporting review evidence.

Best overall product

Worst Neighbor Ever, Season 1

3.9 overall score

Strongest overall product among items with scored evidence for this feature.

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#1 Rick and Morty, Season 9
4.6

Animation is one of the strongest consensus points. The season is called top-notch, smoother than ever, stunning, and unusually strong for Adult Swim animation.

Pros: critic appeal, genre satisfaction

Cons: family friendliness, age appropriateness

#2 Adventure Time: Side Quests, Season 1
4.6

Animation quality draws strong praise for expressive movement, bright colors, reaction shots, and action that pops. Even reviewers with reservations about the revival generally found the animation lively and well-suited...

Pros: production design, animation quality

Cons: pilot episode quality, score quality

#3 Worst Neighbor Ever, Season 1
4.1

Animated reenactments are generally viewed as useful and distinctive, especially compared with actor dramatizations. The main reservation is that restrained animation sometimes illustrates events without adding much tension.

Pros: finale satisfaction, season finale quality

Cons: violence level, writing quality

#4 Stranger Things: Tales From ’85
3.6

Animation is the show’s most polarizing feature. Environments, lighting, monsters, and action earn frequent praise, while the stiff, doll-like human designs and borrowed Spider-Verse-style movement draw equally strong criticism.

Pros: world-building, production design

Cons: plot clarity, realism

#5 Mating Season, Season 1
2.2

Animation draws both praise and criticism. Supporters see polish, expressive movement, and improved design compared with related shows, while harsher viewers find the characters stiff, bland, or unattractive.

Pros: realism, cultural representation

Cons: age appropriateness, violence level