When Eric Monte and Mike Evans’ three-time Golden Globe-nominated Good Times first aired on CBS in 1974, the tempo was gentle, and the satire was smooth. Ranada’s Shepard’s new animated series of the same name, a re-imagining of the original series set in the world of today, simply put, is quite different. The show has edge, as does the animation, which makes the most of hard lines and geometrical shapes, and it’s easy to see why the show fits so snuggly in the adult animation category.
But not everyone has cozied up to the animation reboot. And Shepard isn’t surprised.
Produced by Sony Picture Television with Act III Productions and Fuzzy Door Productions, the 2D-animated Good Timesfinds the fourth generation of the Evans family living in apartment 17C, in the last remaining housing projects in Chicago. The star-studded cast includes the voices of JB Smoove, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jay Pharoah, Marsai Martin, Slink Johnson, and Rashida “Sheedz” Olayiwola. Now available to stream …