Adult SwimIf you’ve ever enjoyed cartoons as an art form, you need to see Primal. The latest series from producer Genndy Tartakovsky, he of Dexter’s Laboratory and Samurai Jack fame, it’s not so much a show as a showcase of brilliant animation and direction. The first five episodes are available on HBO Max. Not Much to It Primal is set in a fantasy version of pre-history, the kind of setting you might see for a set of loose children’s toys that’s much more interested in imagination than in paleontology. It follows the wandering adventures of a small T-rex and a burly caveman. And I do mean a caveman, not an early hominid or a Neanderthal: Think One Million BC, not The Quest for Fire. The story is relayed entirely without dialogue: The caveman can only grunt and yell, the dinosaur can only roar and hiss. The characters have names (Spear the caveman, Fang the T-Rex), but you’ll only discover them if you dig into the production notes. There are other intelligent creatures in the wild world, but they’re few and far between, and even those that are like Spear don’t have much to say. The two form an unlikely duo after a pack of much larger predators eat his family and her brood, respectively. Once the killers are defeated, Spear and Fang walk from place to place. We’… Click below to read the full story from How To Geek
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