If you have living beings more or less similar to you, but smaller in your environment, you have surely heard of Bluey. Like Peppa Pig, SpongeBob and Pocoyo before them, legends say that in each generation a hero will emerge, a champion who will manage to stand out among the hundreds of thousands of hours of cartoons available on the planet’s screens and will break the glass ceiling and escape from the kids tv ghetto.
Bluey is, without a doubt, the children’s series of the moment. And if you watch a couple of episodes you immediately realize that it is also one of the series of the moment, period. The writers of “The Crown” or “Succession” would already like to scale the emotional peaks that are compressed one after another in the very short seven minutes that an episode lasts.
The most watched animated series on Disney Plus across the planet is also, naturally, the star of some of the most requested toys this Christmas. The blue face of its protagonist can be seen more and more frequently on backpacks, water bottles, lunch boxes and sweatshirts.
Bluey is a puppy who lives with her little sister Bingo and her parents at home. They do housework, go for walks, run errands and play. They play a lot. The game, which is the great protagonist of the day-to-day life of children as children, has never been better represented in fiction than in this series. With all its nuances, complexity, and purity, Bluey’s family playtimes are imaginative, educational, challenging, exciting, and oftentimes hilarious.
The little sisters love to play and their parents love to play with them. Oh, your parents. Their parents are there to show the rest of us parents that we are not cartoon blue dogs. They are co-responsible, empathetic, kind, generous and dedicated. They are imperfect, but they learn from their mistakes. They listen, cooperate, educate, entertain and enjoy the time they spend with their two little girls, but also the time they spend alone and with their friends.
A friend told me that he was overwhelmed by seeing how well and easily Bluey’s parents made parenting, a role model so unattainable that it made him feel like a father like when he saw the abs of a Swedish model on the cover of a magazine. . That’s when I realized what his secret to success was.
We parents who sit in front of the TV with our little ones are captivated by his educational methods, his energy and dedication to upbringing, with the simplicity and perfection of a pure family relationship. I feel as fascinated as when I was little I watched Batman cartoons and dreamed of being like him. Fuck being a billionaire superhero, what’s really hard is being a great dad like Bluey’s.
The adults of the planet should be grateful for the arrival of this series. After spending many, many hours trying to extract some entertainment from series that your children fall in love with but leave you between infinite torpor or existential despair, how wonderful when you find something that you also really want to see.
Bluey is a wonderful experience for the whole family. There is something almost magical about it that makes the joie de vivre of that group of dogs transmit itself by cathode waves to the sofa you are sitting on. Soon you also begin to share laughter, complicity and establish links by creating common experiences.
Can’t wait to see your whatsapp and twitter updates give the umpteenth rescue plans of the Paw Patrol. No adult cares about the fate of the driver of an orange truck trapped in a ravine in the very jinxed Adventure Bay, but our eyes water and our chests fill with electricity when you share that fan-watching moment with your own family. watching Bluey.
What a wonderful experience it is to enjoy a good audiovisual product with your children. Share laughter, surprises and wonders. Remember moments in the car, relive situations in our own games, invent new adventures together. What a treat.
How lucky to live in the moment we are living in and to have access to an unbeatable selection of children’s programming.
I always disliked parents who insist on giving their little ones the same things they saw when they were children. Parents who get frustrated because their children don’t connect with Willy Fog or Maya the Bee. Living dead parents who cling to an idealization of their own childhood and have mythologized series that are historical and emblematic, but that are completely inferior to the things that we now have within reach of our platform.
I invite you to see Bluey as a family, of course.
And that you enjoy with the classic film vaudevilles of Shawn the Sheep. With the limitless fantasy of Adventure Time. Featuring Steven Universe’s cosmic sorority epic. With the amazing inventions of Phineas and Ferb. Featuring the epic saga of Avatar: The Last Airbender. With the wacky, wild humor of Teen Titans Go! With the hilarious and very modern revisions of classics proposed by The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse and Looney Tunes Cartoons. With the outrageous supernatural comedy of Gravity Falls. With We Are Bears. With Kid Cosmic. With Animalimals. With Morph.
We never had it so easy to pay attention, let’s take advantage of it.
The Disney children’s series that succeeds among children (and adults)