Xavier: Renegade Angel
| Xavier: Renegade Angel | |
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| Genre |
Adult animation, comedy, dark humor, surreal humour, absurdism, horror |
| Created by |
John Lee Vernon Chatman Alyson Levy Jim Tozzi |
| Starring | John Lee Vernon Chatman Alyson Levy Jim Tozzi John Flansburgh |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 20 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | John Lee Vernon Chatman Alyson Levy Jim Tozzi |
| Producer(s) |
PFFR Cinematico Williams Street |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Adult Swim |
| Picture format |
16:9 HDTV 4:3 SDTV (episode 19) |
| Original release | November 4, 2007 – April 16, 2009 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Xavier: Renegade Angel is an American CGI surrealist fantasy-comedy television series created by John Lee, Vernon Chatman, Jim Tozzi and Alyson Levy. Lee and Chatman are also the creators of Wonder Showzen. The show was produced by PFFR, with animation by Cinematico. It premiered at midnight on November 4, 2007, on Adult Swim, and November 1, 2007, on the Adult Swim website.
Xavier features a style characterized by a nonlinear, incoherent plot following the humorous musings of an itinerant humanoid pseudo-shaman and spiritual seeker named Xavier. The show is known for its ubiquitous use of ideologically critical black comedy, surrealist and absurdist humor presented through a psychedelic, New Age lens. The program is also normally rated TV-MA for intense, graphic, often bloody violence (V), as well as strong sexual content, use of racially/ethnically offensive language, grotesque depictions and content that is considered "too morbid and too incomprehensible for young viewers"
Xavier: Renegade Angel premiered on November 4, 2007, and ended on April 16, 2009, with a total of 20 episodes.
The computer-generated animation of Xavier: Renegade Angel resembles that of video games such as Second Life and The Sims. The show features ribald wordplay, nonchalant violence and transgressive sexuality, in deeply nested, often recursive plots. These plots are often very nonlinear in their chronology; however, each episode seems to contain similar themes and motifs, as well as a single opening scene that has recurred in every episode of Xavier: a depiction of the titular character wandering through a desert (possibly a reference to the 1970s television program Kung Fu) as he narrates a semi-spontaneous, often nonsensical philosophical thought that many times connects with the episode at hand, whilst the title card of the show itself flies overhead, usually varying in action or position. An opening theme presumed to be played by Xavier on his "shakashuri" is present during these.
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