Robot Chicken meets the Moping Old Dude, his Old lady and Kids.
Patton Oswalt voices the fan favorite, and he does the best he can with the dialog he’s given to work with. In this combination farce/satire on the Marvel Universe, M.O.D.O.K. is married with two kids, but facing marital and work strife that leads to a separation at home and an extreme demotion on the work front: he loses control of A.I.M. and winds up in the mailroom and living in a squalid bachelor’s apartment.
This M.O.D.O.K. shows all the classic narcissistic personality disorder system, which alienates him from his family and co-workers. He feels he has come up very short of his childhood dreams of re-creating the world in his utopian vision. M.O.D.O.K. is meant to be a relatable, sympathetic figure despite his sociopathic, violent tendencies. At work he is surrounded by the typical sitcom office archetypes, who get injured and killed by Robot Chicken-style cartoonish mayhem. While he cares about his wife and children on a real level, he can’t prioritize their happiness over his self-indulgence born of deep-seated insecurities.
There are cameos of well-known and less-well-known Marvel characters that provide some fan service to viewers, I won’t mention specific names as to not spoil the fun. The story arc ends with anticipation of a second season, but I am not sure about this show’s future. I only found parts of a couple of episodes particularly engaging. There are three sub-plots intertwined in the ten-episode run and they sort of take away from each other, and one in particular I just cared nothing about by the end of the last episode.
