The JoJo & BowBow Show Show is surprisingly unwatchable, and I mean worse than Nickelodeon animated shows like Breadwinners or their live action teen sitcoms. I don't even know where to start with this one.
Before I begin my review, yes I completely get that JoJo Siwa is usually aimed at a younger demographic, but I've never seen a Nickelodeon show act this dumb to its viewers. Literally nothing about this show makes any sense regardless of the targeted audience this was meant for. The episodes are about JoJo Siwa telling past adventures of her and her dog BowBow presented in flashbacks, she does this in her bedroom by simply talking to the audience very loudly.
The episodes are literally just an exaggerated copy of JoJo Siwa's YouTube vlogs with poorly executed humor in every way possible. JoJo is very obnoxious and one-dimensional as she constantly yells to the audience about her events with BowBow. I don't understand why Nickelodeon has to make JoJo Siwa as annoying as possible. She is constantly shouting into the microphone when recording her lines for this series and it's one of the reasons why it's so unwatchable. BowBow for some reason is able to talk because apparently animals can communicate with humans in this fictional universe and is literally just JoJo's voice but raspier. They never develop or learn anything and just exist to appear in these illogical events told by JoJo. Apparently BowBow's only real personality is that she is basically JoJo but chases a mailman occasionally. The adventures are not only boring but they don't really have a plot either, it's mostly just JoJo and BowBow doing random stuff very unrealistically like spoiling movies on an airplane, BowBow dealing with what is believed to be competition at a fashion show, and making a bacon wrapped dog onesie because dogs hate zippers, seriously. I don't want to go on about it but the logic in this show is just absent and feels like it was written by a five year old. The episodes only last a few minutes which is probably for the best after what I just described. It has the laziest and most confusing writing for such a dull premise.
The later characters in Season 2 are no better. All of them being JoJo's friends with their pets have no actual character either and only exist because Nickelodeon wanted to find a way to continue this web-series. Most of the other characters are just used for plots and like with JoJo and BowBow, they have the same exact voices. They don't have any defining personality traits whatsoever.
The motion capture animation also looks really uncanny and cheap. The facial expressions are very limited to the point where you can barely tell how a character is delivering their dialogue and there's a drop shadow behind them all for some reason. It doesn't even look like a budget was put into any of the visuals, and this was made by Renegade Animation?
This is by far the worst Nickelodeon animated series I've come across, if not the worst Nickelodeon series in general. I can see why it didn't come on TV, this wouldn't have been approved, not even for Nick Jr. I don't hate JoJo Siwa but this show is truly bottom tier.
Before I begin my review, yes I completely get that JoJo Siwa is usually aimed at a younger demographic, but I've never seen a Nickelodeon show act this dumb to its viewers. Literally nothing about this show makes any sense regardless of the targeted audience this was meant for. The episodes are about JoJo Siwa telling past adventures of her and her dog BowBow presented in flashbacks, she does this in her bedroom by simply talking to the audience very loudly.
The episodes are literally just an exaggerated copy of JoJo Siwa's YouTube vlogs with poorly executed humor in every way possible. JoJo is very obnoxious and one-dimensional as she constantly yells to the audience about her events with BowBow. I don't understand why Nickelodeon has to make JoJo Siwa as annoying as possible. She is constantly shouting into the microphone when recording her lines for this series and it's one of the reasons why it's so unwatchable. BowBow for some reason is able to talk because apparently animals can communicate with humans in this fictional universe and is literally just JoJo's voice but raspier. They never develop or learn anything and just exist to appear in these illogical events told by JoJo. Apparently BowBow's only real personality is that she is basically JoJo but chases a mailman occasionally. The adventures are not only boring but they don't really have a plot either, it's mostly just JoJo and BowBow doing random stuff very unrealistically like spoiling movies on an airplane, BowBow dealing with what is believed to be competition at a fashion show, and making a bacon wrapped dog onesie because dogs hate zippers, seriously. I don't want to go on about it but the logic in this show is just absent and feels like it was written by a five year old. The episodes only last a few minutes which is probably for the best after what I just described. It has the laziest and most confusing writing for such a dull premise.
The later characters in Season 2 are no better. All of them being JoJo's friends with their pets have no actual character either and only exist because Nickelodeon wanted to find a way to continue this web-series. Most of the other characters are just used for plots and like with JoJo and BowBow, they have the same exact voices. They don't have any defining personality traits whatsoever.
The motion capture animation also looks really uncanny and cheap. The facial expressions are very limited to the point where you can barely tell how a character is delivering their dialogue and there's a drop shadow behind them all for some reason. It doesn't even look like a budget was put into any of the visuals, and this was made by Renegade Animation?
This is by far the worst Nickelodeon animated series I've come across, if not the worst Nickelodeon series in general. I can see why it didn't come on TV, this wouldn't have been approved, not even for Nick Jr. I don't hate JoJo Siwa but this show is truly bottom tier.
