After Being Mauled By Critics, Ricky Gervais’ ‘Alley Cats’ Gets Thumbs Up From A Comedy Legend

Ricky Gervais’ new animated TV series Alley Cats may have drawn fire from critics, but one comedy legend has come out to bat for the show. Critics have had their knives out for Netflix’s politically incorrect dark comedy, which debuted over the weekend. The show has only a 39% score on Metacritic with The Telegraph…

The soap legend hopes the role in Ricky Gervais' new show could lead to similar comedic parts

There are six 15-minute episodes and, because it's Gervais, I kept waiting for it to get funny.  It'll get funny any moment now, I told myself, encouragingly. It never did.

I don't say it lightly, but it's time for Ricky Gervais to quit TV - Netflix's Alley Cats is woeful - Alex Davies  GB News

The Daily Beast/Getty/Netflix “I don’t tell people not to be offended,” proud provocateur Ricky Gervais claimed ahead of his latest Netflix original. “I tell them I don’t care if they are.” Alley Cats, essentially a misanthropic, suburban Homeward Bound in animated form, suggests he’s also stopped caring about nuance,

There are glimmers of potential in this comedy about a potty-mouthed feline gang. But not even the great voice cast or a cute kitten can save it from being lazy, crude and boring I suppose the question is really: what do you do after redefining comedy for your era? After The Office, that exquisitely observed, agonisin

To kick off the third episode of the Netflix animated comedy “Alley Cats,” protagonist Gus — an overweight orange tabby voiced by writer, creator and frequent director Ricky Gervais (think Garfield with a distinctly working class British accent) — describes his plan for the day. It starts with an achievable goal. Then:

Forget the manosphere – with his gang of nasty, offensive cats, Gervais has created the Catosphere

Gervais also leads the voice cast of the animated comedy, following a group of feral strays who take in a lost kitten searching for her former home.

‘Alley Cats’ Review: Ferally Funny Ricky Gervais on Netflix  WSJ

Alley Cats review — is Ricky Gervais’s sweary cat cartoon too much?  The Times

Alex Jones and Vernon Kay interviewed Ricky Gervais about his new animated series Alley Cats on The One Show