Downtown (1999)

Genre

animated sitcom, adult animated television series

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of young adults navigate their daily lives in New York City's East Village. The show focuses on their personal stories and interactions.

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What happens

Downtown (also known as MTV Downtown) is an American animated series and sitcom created by Chris Prynoski that aired on MTV from August 3 to November 8, 1999. The show follows a group of young adults who live in an urban area on East Village of New York City, presenting their everyday lives. Inspired by Ralph Bakshi's films from the early 1970s, Prynoski in the mid-1990s felt that his films from its time were a time capsule of a culture. He began work on Downtown, for the same effect of what he felt watching about Bakshi's films of the period time, as Downtown years later. MTV canceled the series after one season. Prynoski put bad marketing decisions and the rerun's inconvenient time slots as speculations for the cause. Nonetheless, the sitcom's episode "Before and After" was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program in 2000, and the series has been positively received by critics and audiences in retrospect. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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