With Tuca & Bertie, Hanawalt and her team have created something truly unique, with a world that grows organically with every episode. And once Tuca gets more space to shine, the show will get even better.

Full Review | Jul 28, 2021

When the series started, it wasn't expected that this is where this delightful friendship comedy would go, but season two hits the ground running on what made this show so special to begin with.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 28, 2021

This season builds on the dramatic arcs introduced in the show's first season, creating richer and more fleshed out interior worlds for the show's titular characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 28, 2021

Tuca and Bertie captures the humor and trauma of just living day to day, with a complexity and joy that few shows have managed.

Full Review | Jul 26, 2021

In the end, Tuca & Bertie is bigger than the cartoon category it is forced to reside in. It's an exploration of complex emotions and the problems one faces if past issues are not resolved.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2021

Tuca & Bertie's second season grows more confident and it's not afraid to tell bigger, fuller, and more responsible stories that are interested in challenging its characters and pushing them to make difficult decisions.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 6, 2021

This funny show starring an oversexed toucan and her dear, insecure aviary friend doesn't provide all the answers or solutions. But in its idiosyncratic, sensitively rendered way, it makes you feel more okay about dealing with the doubts.

Full Review | Jun 21, 2021

While the show doesn't shy away from serious topics, it's never so heavy that it takes away from the show's hilarity and cackle-worthy little details.

Full Review | Jun 18, 2021

In a format the show has always excelled at, much like BoJack before it, Tuca and Bertie humanizes mental health while also pointing out the many funny things about the tedious chore of finding a therapist.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2021

Tuca & Bertie season two is not so much challenging what animation can do, but it does prove how far an animated show can break boundaries and limitations while still rooting its stories in reality.

Full Review | Jun 16, 2021

Based on the four episodes provided for review, Tuca & Bertie has changed nests with hardly a wingflap skipped; It's funny, probing, and delightfully absurd.

Full Review | Jun 16, 2021

Tuca & Bertie artfully navigates the uncharted waters of securing the right therapist, and addressing just how isolating panic attacks can feel. It's a humorous and heartfelt approach to mental health.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2021

The series alternates between internal reflection and bizarre comedy, one impossible to imagine without the other.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2021

If Rick and Morty lends a dark intellectual legitimacy to [Adult Swim's] stoner palace, Tuca & Bertie smartly perks up the lineup, reminding us of the many ways that animation tells multi-dimensional stories that speak to everybody, not just the guys.

Full Review | Jun 14, 2021

The four episodes of season 2 provided for critics are just as funny as season 1, seamlessly transitioning Bird Town to a new network.

Full Review | Jun 14, 2021

Few live-action TV comedies convey comparable levels of emotional intelligence and flat-out glee (the theme song, even in its new, shortened form, is an all-time banger), but "Tuca & Bertie" also isn't trying to imitate traditional sitcoms.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jun 14, 2021

Returning with something to prove, Tuca & Bertie makes it abundantly clear that this show deserved to live another day.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jun 14, 2021

The show's second season is already shaping up to be better than the first.

Full Review | Jun 14, 2021

After two years away and a considerable amount of time spent in cancellation limbo, it's an outright joy to dance along with Tuca & Bertie again.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2021

The show has become a savvy vehicle through which to explore repressed trauma, workplace sexism and what may be the most simultaneously nurturing and corrosive friendship on TV.

Full Review | Jun 4, 2021