Unsupervised is an American adult animatedsitcom created by David Hornsby, Rob Rosell, and Scott Marderwhich that ran on FX from January 19, to December 20, 2012. The show was created and, for the most part, written by David Hornsby, Scott Marder, and Rob Rosell. On November 17, 2012, the series was canceled after one season.
Gary G. : Gary's father has abandoned him and he lives with his pot-smoking stepmother, who is often absent and takes no responsibility for him when she is physically present. Gary is very idealistic and he and his friend Joel always support each other.
Joel Zymanski : Generally more excitable than Gary, and a little less mature, Joel lacks subtlety. An optimistic humanitarian like Gary, Joel loves to dance and is particularly proud of his ability to spin on the spot.
Megan McKinley : A mature but selfish and self-centered student who wants to be popular and "cool." She complains about her well-meaning but permissive mother.
Darius Jenkins : An excellent student who is defensive about his weight. Darius is a realist. He has a strict mother.
Russ Brown : A mentally ill, impulsive classmate of Gary and Joel's. He perpetually has one arm in a cast and sniffs the cast when he's uneasy. Comes from a broken, utterly impoverished home and has multiple siblings.
Recurring
Carol, Gary's irresponsible stepmother who barely notices he exists and gives him no support or stability.
Danielle, also called "Rocket Tits", a disinterested student at Maynord High, considered a lust-interest of Joel Zymanski and sometime best friend of Megan McKinley.
Martin Rivera, Gary's middle-aged Latinonext-door neighbor, a widower who works insane hours at a soul-crushing job and is always heavily sweating.
Christina Rivera, Martin's rude, rebellious teenage daughter.
Rachel, Christina's friend.
Jojo Venetti, the toughest kid in school; a bully who gets wasted with any/every substance available.
Mrs. McKinley, Megan's liberal mother, who enthusiastically encourages her non-rebellious daughter to engage in all manner of irresponsible teenage behavior, including partying and dating.
Sid, Gary's tough Australian neighbor, a retired ecological /corporate lawyer and kangaroo researcher.
Dirt, Jojo's friend, a slightly-old "bad" boy.
Principal Margaret Stark, the cynical and corrupt principal of Maynord High, Gary and Joel's school. Nicknamed "The Skunk" because of the white stripe in her hair.
Coach Durham, the baseball coach who lives in his car just outside the school field.
Production
Unsupervised was created by David Hornsby, Scott Marder, and Rob Rosell, who also serve as executive producers alongside Adam Reed, Matt Thompson, Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day and the production companies, Floyd County Productions, RCG Productions, and FX Productions. The series was not renewed for a second season. Unsupervised appeared on the FX Network development slate in March 2011, under the title Townies and was eyed as a companion to the current FX animated comedyArcher. On September 15, 2011, the series was given a series order of 13 episodes, under the new title Unsupervised. Hornsby, Rosell, and Marder were the executive producers, with Rosell and Marder acting as show-runners. Musician DJsNeverEndingStory was hired as the composer for the animation's hip-hop-influenced music. On October 17, 2011, FX released a preview trailer of Unsupervised, titled "Fresh Men". The series premiered on January 19, 2012, at 10:30pm following Archer. FX officially announced the season finale to be aired on March 22, 2012, which brings the ending of the first season to 10 episodes. Later, the 3 remaining episodes were written during the first production cycle, and were scheduled to be aired between "Jesse Judge Lawncare Incorporated" and "Youngbloods". However, due to a production issue with Archer, they were postponed in conjuncture with FX wanting to end the two shows in sync. The episodes were aired from December 6–20, 2012.
Episodes
Reception
Unsupervised received many mixed to negative reviews from critics upon its premiere with its pilot, holding a 3.5 or "Awful" rating on IGN. Alan Sepinwall gave the show a mixed review, noting that he liked the way Gary and Joel were presented as decent kids instead of making them default stereotypes of poor troublemakers, but also that the show was not that funny. Although disappointed with the premiere, later episodes of the season were given much higher marks with The A.V. Club giving the season one finale an A-. Unsupervised currently holds a 45 out of 100 score from Metacritic based on 16 reviews.
