https://piefed.social/u/Skavau posted on Feb 26, 2026 18:32
Adult Swim‘s adult animated comedy Smiling Friends is coming to an end. Series creators Michael Cusack and Zach Hadel made the announcement in an audio message on Adult Swim’s X account.
Along with the bad news, there was some good one. While the eight-episode Season 3 of Smiling Friends ended its Adult Swim run on Nov. 30, fans have not seen the last of it. Cusack and Hadel unveiled that two extra episodes will be released on April 12 but made it clear that that they are “little stragglers, little rogue planets out there, not thematically related” and not conceived as a series finale, leaving the door open to revisit the series in the future with new episodes
I absolutely loved Smiling Friends! It was just the right amount of chaos and deadpan humour. Pretty sad there won’t be more but I get it, good luck on the next series!
I think generally Adult Swim suits are pretty good about being hands off for their shows, unless something’s changed in the last few years lol
Yeah Gatwa breathed a lot of life into the show for me after Whitaker’s run.
The overarching plot was eh but the individual episodes were a lot of fun. Which is more than I can say about the previous run.
Yeah, by the end of Capaldi’s run I was losing interest and I was excited for both a new doctor and show runner, but I couldn’t stick with Whitaker and dropped off halfway into the first series.
I did go back last year and give it a shot. Being able to binge it was better because the weaker episodes just scroll past until you get to something better. I think in the end it was fine, but difficult to recommend.
For Gatwa I was excited to tune in every week. I really wish he had gotten a third series.
Generally I like his movies. Can’t say I am all that interested in an X-Files Reboot. Then again I really wasn’t all that interested in a Rocky Reboot either.
This worries me. Reboot something else and leave X-Files alone
I find this show’s plot/story laughably bad but the style is amazing!… like a Lambo with a chevy engine hahaha.