The seventh season takes a similar approach to the sixth, which is to say that there is a very loose narrative running through the season, but mostly it is doing its usual thing in terms of content, characters, and dialogue. Following the failure to get income from being drug-dealers, the group have relocated to LA and opened a private detective agency. Their first job is a simple recovery operation of a sensitive hard-drive for Hollywood star Veronica Deane, however when their second job can be described in precisely the same way, it becomes clear that there are different groups all out to get some critical information off the drive.
The plot doesn't really matter here, although it is good enough to keep the season moving forward, and provide a decent frame and ending. As ever, I'm no great fan of Barry and his involvement, but that episode was still good, and mostly they were entertaining and funny. It is the core characters that make it work. The familiarity with the jokes and content hasn't yet tired; like the previous season you could argue it is not the most fresh, but you're laughing so it tends not to matter. Mostly it lives in the moment, and this means that as long as it keeps hitting its marks then it works. And it mostly does, with all the characters doing their things in a stripped down fashion that doesn't worry too much about development – in some shows main characters having babies and getting together would mean a change to the dynamics etc, but here it just changes the superficial detail, not anything to do with their approaches to life or interactions!
Animation and voice work remains very good; the guest voices join in well, although it is the sharp writing, adherence to character, and strong delivery that make it work moment to moment and thus as a whole.
The plot doesn't really matter here, although it is good enough to keep the season moving forward, and provide a decent frame and ending. As ever, I'm no great fan of Barry and his involvement, but that episode was still good, and mostly they were entertaining and funny. It is the core characters that make it work. The familiarity with the jokes and content hasn't yet tired; like the previous season you could argue it is not the most fresh, but you're laughing so it tends not to matter. Mostly it lives in the moment, and this means that as long as it keeps hitting its marks then it works. And it mostly does, with all the characters doing their things in a stripped down fashion that doesn't worry too much about development – in some shows main characters having babies and getting together would mean a change to the dynamics etc, but here it just changes the superficial detail, not anything to do with their approaches to life or interactions!
Animation and voice work remains very good; the guest voices join in well, although it is the sharp writing, adherence to character, and strong delivery that make it work moment to moment and thus as a whole.