Blotter

In the sun-drenched, hyper-photorealistic suburb of Crestwood Pines, the Blotter family lives with blissful, stubborn normalcy — despite the fact that every member is a walking fever dream of internet ephemera, vintage clip art, and glitching mixed-media anatomy. Frank, a deadpan dad with a Russet potato torso and a single hyper-realistic human eye, just wants to perfect his brisket and keep the HOA from issuing another citation about his 'non-regulation lawn ornaments,' which are actually just his own limbs. Teenage Chloe, who leaks luminous neon slime whenever she rolls her eyes — which is constantly — is desperately trying to survive high school while concealing the vintage anatomical skeleton visible through her translucent paper-cutout skin from the boy she's convinced is the love of her life. The family's greatest source of collective anxiety, however, is the household dog: a perfectly, disturbingly normal Golden Retriever that everyone agrees is deeply unsettling and probably needs to see a specialist. Shot against gorgeous cinematic real-world backdrops with characters rendered in a chaotic collage of 2D cartoons, tactile textures, and scanned diagrams, the show mines deadpan gold from one unbreakable rule — nobody acknowledges that anything is even slightly strange.

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