Close Enough

Close Enough is an American adult animated sitcom created by J. G. Quintel for HBO Max. 

At first, the series was created for TBS in 2017, but was not shown. After the AT&T purchase of Time Warner, the show was put on hold. It was released exclusively to the HBO Max streaming service on July 9, 2020. The series has received positive reviews. On August 6, 2020, the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on February 25, 2021.

On February 10, 2021, the series was renewed for a third season.

Premise
The series revolves around a couple who are in their early thirties who have a five-year-old daughter and live with their divorced friends in a Los Angeles duplex. As they get into what seem like normal domestic crises that usually escalate in surreal, often science fiction-esque, ways.

Cast and characters

Main
 Joshua "Josh" Singleton (voiced by J. G. Quintel) – an aspiring video game developer who works for Plugger-Inners; a television installation company based on Geek Squad. His appearance and mannerisms are based on those of Quintel.
 Emily Ramirez (voiced by Gabrielle Walsh) – Josh's wife, who works as an assistant for a food corporation called FoodCorp. She is based on Quintel's own wife, Cassia.
 Candice Singleton-Ramirez (voiced by Jessica DiCicco) – Josh and Emily's six-year-old (as of "Birthdaze") daughter, who struggles with school work.
 Alex Dorpenberger (voiced by Jason Mantzoukas) – Josh's best friend, who works as a community college professor. He is a conspiracy theorist.
 Bridgette No Stress Yoshida (voiced by Kimiko Glenn) – Emily's best friend and Alex's ex-wife. She is a Japanese-American social media influencer, and a part-time comedy singer-songwriter in a band with Emily. Her middle name was revealed in an episode from the first season, which also revealed that it was the result of a legal name change that she authorized while she was under the influence of drugs.

Recurring
 Pearle Watson (voiced by Danielle Brooks) – A retired LAPD cop, and the landlord of the duplex.
 Randall "Randy" Watson (voiced by James Adomian) – Pearle's adopted Caucasian son, and the duplex's property manager. He was adopted by Pearle after his biological parents, Wyatt and Deborah Trickle, were arrested for siphoning gas from multiple cars.
 Mr. Timothy Brice Campbell (voiced by John Early) – Candice's hippie teacher at Chamomile Elementary.
 Mr. Salt (voiced by Fred Stoller) – Emily's boss at FoodCorp.
 Dr. Glandz (voiced by Cheri Oteri) – A physician who works at a hospital called Pretty Good Samaritan.
 Dante (voiced by Eugene Cordero) – One of Josh's coworkers at Plugger-Inners who has a prosthetic lower arm.
 Jojo (voiced by Mo Collins) – A biker woman who is the leader of the Cool Moms, and the mother of Candice's classmate, Mia.
 Trish (voiced by Kate Higgins) – A member of the Cool Moms, and the mother of Candice's best friend and classmate, Maddie.

Additional voices
 William Salyers
 Max Mittelman
 Roger Craig Smith
 Erica Lindbeck
 Fred Tatasciore
 Kevin Michael Richardson
 Matthew Mercer
 Grey Griffin
 Ali Hillis
 Eric Bauza
 Kate Micucci
 Vanessa Marshall
 Marc Evan Jackson
 Eden Riegel 
 Ashley Johnson
 Courtenay Taylor
 Chris Cox
 Travis Willingham
 Scott Whyte
 Troy Baker
 Lauren Lapkus

Guest stars
 "Weird Al" Yankovic as himself
 David Hasselhoff as himself
 Noel Fielding as Snailathan Gold
 Dave Foley as Dr. Ferguson
 George Lopez as Wurst Bros. leader
 Matt Besser as Bush Guy
 Rachel Dratch as Meredith Breedmore
 Seth Morris as Robot guards
 Jane Lynch as Barb
 Suzy Nakamura as Ms. Yoshida
 Chris Parnell as Ron
 Jessica St. Clair as Joy
 Rich Sommer as Keith Nash
 Brent Weinbach as Lee
 Steve Agee as Davey Wegman
 Judy Greer as Nikki
 Diamond White as Caitlin Olsman
 Kate Berlant as River Lake
 Paul F. Tompkins as The Amazing Sardini
 Lea DeLaria as Prisoner
 Horatio Sanz as Raoul
 Lennon Parham as Toluca Lake
 James Urbaniak as Commercial Bot
 Whitmer Thomas as The Goosh
 Jordan Black as Pterodactyl
 Skyler Gisondo as Cameron
 Rachel Bloom as Kira 
 Michaela Watkins as Brienne Bishop
 Nicole Byer as Ophira
 Heidi Gardner as Becca
 Beck Bennett as Luc
 David Koechner as Wyatt Trickle
 Wendie Malick as Deborah Trickle
 Keith David as "World's Greatest Teacher" mug
 Ken Marino

Release
The series was announced in May 2017, four months after Quintel's previous series, Regular Show, concluded, and was originally planned to air on TBS, but it was delayed several times, and TBS's plans for the animation block to premiere it fell through when production on The Cops was shut down due to Louis C.K.’s admitted sexual misconduct. On October 29, 2019, it was announced that the series would instead make its home on HBO Max. The second half of the third episode was premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 15, 2020. On September 14, 2020, the series was broadcast internationally through Netflix and Adult Swim. The second season premiered on February 25, 2021 on HBO Max. The second season is scheduled to release on Netflix internationally on May 26, 2021.

Episodes

Season 1 (2020)
The first season was originally set to run for ten episodes, but only 8 episodes were released when the series launched.

References

2020 television series debuts
American animated television series
American comedy television series
HBO Max