--- title: "Kevin" year: 2026 kind: "series" canonical: "https://film.one/tv/kevin" fi1m_id: "kevin" imdb_id: "tt32499838" tmdb_id: 255760 wikidata_id: "Q138975593" fi1m_score: 56 critics_reviews: 3 published: "2026-10-13T21:41:51.553531+00:00" updated: "2026-10-13T21:42:35.671099+00:00" region: "US" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Kevin (2026) Created by Aubrey Plaza, Joe Wengert · Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy ## Identity Kevin - **Canonical:** https://film.one/tv/kevin - **Type:** Series - **Fi1m ID:** kevin - **IMDb ID:** tt32499838 - **TMDB ID:** 255760 - **Wikidata ID:** Q138975593 - **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32499838/, https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/255760, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138975593 **Fi1m score: 56** · Critics: 3 of 6 reviews so far *In a sentence:* A cat with nine lives who uses the first four on jokes that do not land > Aubrey Plaza and Joe Wengert’s animated cat comedy is crude, slack and only fitfully funny for half of its eight episodes, and then, almost by accident, becomes a tender little series about what a pet knows. Worth the wait only if you are patient. ## Synopsis Kevin (Jason Schwartzman) is a cat in New York with, as the tagline has it, nine lives to spend and no clear idea what to spend them on. He is young, easily wounded and talks far more than any cat should, and across the eight episodes of the first season he has to work out what sort of animal he intends to be. Around him are Brandi (Amy Sedaris), Judy (Aparna Nancherla), Seth (Gil Ozeri), Dana (Aubrey Plaza), Armando (John Waters) and Cupcake (Whoopi Goldberg), a crowd of pets and people whose lives run on in the flats, streets and pavements of the city whether or not Kevin is paying attention. Plaza and Joe Wengert created the series, which is as much about the city’s animals as it is about its people. ## Review Kevin (Jason Schwartzman) is a New York cat, and the series Aubrey Plaza and Joe Wengert have built around him wants to be two things at once: a filthy adult cartoon about animals, and a small story about growing up. Over eight episodes it manages the second far better than the first, and the first is what it leads with. If you can get through the opening half, there is a sweeter, odder show waiting at the other end. We are not sure everyone will. Schwartzman is the right voice for a cat. He plays Kevin as fussy, over-articulate and quick to take offence, a creature who narrates his own dignity while losing it, and the performance holds even when the writing around it does not. Amy Sedaris’s Brandi is pitched somewhere between a cocktail hostess and a threat. Aparna Nancherla gives Judy a flat, apologetic deadpan that gets the biggest laughs in the early episodes with the fewest words. John Waters, as Armando, sounds as if he has been waiting his whole life to be asked, and Whoopi Goldberg’s Cupcake arrives with the air of somebody who has seen all of this before. The trouble is the jokes, or the first forty minutes of them. The writers’ room, which includes John T. Reynolds, Alison Bennett, Corin Wells, Peter Kelly, Jess Dweck and Marcy Jarreau, throws a great deal at the wall in the early episodes, most of it bodily, and the editing by Robert Ashe lets scenes run on past the laugh in the hope that a second one is coming. It rarely is. By the third episode we were bored, and then we were cross about being bored, because a cast list like this one is a promise and the script was not keeping it. There is also a strain of meanness in the early going, animals knocked about for a punchline, that the series has not yet earned the right to. Then it settles. Somewhere past the midpoint the show stops trying to shock and starts paying attention to its animals as animals: what they know of their owners’ comings and goings, what an empty flat feels like to something that cannot read a clock. An episode in the second half, in which Kevin spends most of the running time waiting for a door to open, got to us more than we expected. Dan Romer’s score helps a great deal here, thin and plucked and unhurried, and the four directors, Casey Crowe, Sarah Seember Huisken, Michael Moloney and Angelo Hatgistavrou, keep the city particular: fire escapes, radiators, the underside of a bodega shelf, the view from a windowsill at four in the afternoon. The animation is flat and clean and does not try to impress you, which suits a show about a cat. Against the best of its kind it is a late starter. [*BoJack Horseman*](https://film.one/tv/bojack-horseman) taught this genre that the sadness has to sit underneath the jokes from the first episode, not arrive in the sixth to apologise for them. *Kevin* gets there, but it asks for a lot of credit in advance. The few reviews so far are split wide, with one trade paper warm, another cautiously fond, and one British critic finding nothing to like at all. We can see both camps from where we are sitting. The early episodes are as crude and slack as the harshest notice says; the later ones are as gentle as the kindest. The average lands near the middle and so do we. Watch it at home across a week rather than in a sitting; the early episodes are easier to forgive at a distance of a day. Those with no patience for a cat being sick on a rug for comedy should look elsewhere. Those who can wait will find a show that, by the end, seems to understand its own animal rather well. *Fi1m score 56, published 13 October 2026.* ## Straight answers **Where can I watch Kevin in the US?** *Kevin* is streaming on Amazon Prime Video in the US. Availability is checked daily; the links above go straight to each service. **What should I watch after Kevin?** After *Kevin*, try [*BoJack Horseman*](https://film.one/tv/bojack-horseman) (2014, Fi1m 91): The animal comedy that put the sadness under the jokes from the start. Then [*Flow*](https://film.one/film/flow) (2024, Fi1m 83): A wordless Latvian cat film that says more about an animal’s mind than any script. ### Reviews we read (3) - **Variety**, Alison Herman (75/100, inferred): Herman finds the series’ raunchy, sweetly sincere comedy enjoyable, with Kevin’s coming-of-age journey giving its chaos direction. She especially praises the distinctive New York setting and the show’s imaginative animal characters and antics. [Read](https://variety.com/2026/tv/reviews/kevin-review-prime-video-1236725587/) - **The Hollywood Reporter**, Angie Han (70/100, inferred): Han finds the series an amiable, ultimately sweet hangout comedy that improves as it settles into its rhythm. She praises its tender recognition of pets as beings with their own inner lives, though its early jokes often miss. [Read](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/kevin-review-amazon-aubrey-plaza-jason-schwartzman-1236564657/) - **The Guardian**, Sarah Dempster (10/100, inferred): Dempster pans the series as irredeemably awful, with crude, sluggish writing and little imagination. She especially faults its incoherent jokes and cruelty in place of character development or empathy. [Read](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/apr/20/kevin-review-aubrey-plaza-cat-comedy-cartoon-amazon-prime) ## Details - **Created by:** Aubrey Plaza, Joe Wengert - **Creator:** Aubrey Plaza, Joe Wengert - **Director:** Casey Crowe, Sarah Seember Huisken, Michael Moloney, Angelo Hatgistavrou - **Writer:** Jess Dweck, Alison Bennett, Corin Wells, Peter Kelly, John T. Reynolds, Marcy Jarreau - **Story:** Joe Wengert, Aubrey Plaza - **Teleplay:** Joe Wengert - **Editor:** Robert Ashe - **Music:** Dan Romer - **Producer:** Robbee Jones - **Cast:** Jason Schwartzman as Kevin (voice); Amy Sedaris as Brandi (voice); Aparna Nancherla as Judy (voice); Gil Ozeri as Seth (voice); Aubrey Plaza as Dana (voice); John Waters as Armando (voice); Whoopi Goldberg as Cupcake (voice); Cary Elwes as Michael (voice) - **Release (the US):** 20 April 2026 - **Genres:** Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy - **Trailer:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXm8fiqUork ## Where to watch in the US - Amazon Prime Video: streaming *Checked 2026-10-13.* Also available in: AE, AR, AT, AU, BE, BG, BR, CA, CH, CL, CO, CZ, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HK, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IS, IT, JP, KR, LT, MX, MY, NL, NO, NZ, PA, PH, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SG, TH, TR, US, ZA. Add `?region=XX` to this URL for another country. ## If you liked this - *BoJack Horseman* (2014), Fi1m 91: The animal comedy that put the sadness under the jokes from the start — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/tv/bojack-horseman.md) - *Tuca & Bertie* (2019): Two bird friends, one city, and a far surer hand with the tender stuff - *Fritz the Cat* (1972): The original filthy animated cat, cruder and braver than anything made since - *Flow* (2024), Fi1m 83: A wordless Latvian cat film that says more about an animal’s mind than any script — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/flow.md) - *The Cat Returns* (2002): Studio Ghibli’s lighter cat picture, brisk, polite and genuinely strange in places --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/tv/kevin