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American boob tube serial

This article is about the 2017–2019 action drama serial. For the 1960–1961 situation comedy, see Happy (1960 TV series).

Happy!
Happy! Title Card.png

Intertitle taken from the episode "Saint Nick"
Genre
  • Drama
  • Black comedy
  • Fantasy
  • Activeness
  • Thriller
Created by
  • Grant Morrison
  • Darick Robertson
Based on

Happy!
by

  • Grant Morrison
  • Darick Robertson
Starring
  • Christopher Meloni
  • Ritchie Coster
  • Lili Mirojnick
  • Medina Senghore
  • Patrick Fischler
  • Christopher Fitzgerald
  • Bryce Lorenzo
Voices of Patton Oswalt
Composers
  • Guillaume Roussel
  • Blair Mowat
Country of origin United States
Original languages English and Spanish
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes eighteen (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Neal H. Moritz
  • Pavun Shetty
  • Toby Jaffe
  • Christopher Meloni
  • Brian Taylor
  • Grant Morrison
  • Patrick MacManus
Producers
  • Thomas Sellitti, Jr.
  • Bill Butler
Camera setup Unmarried-camera
Running fourth dimension twoscore-48 minutes
Product companies
  • Hypernormal (flavor 2)
  • Original Film
  • Littleton Road
  • Universal Cable Productions (Season i)
  • Universal Content Productions (Flavour 2)
Distributor NBCUniversal Television receiver Distribution
Release
Original network Syfy
Picture format HDTV 1080i
Audio format Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release December vi, 2017 (2017-12-06) –
May 29, 2019 (2019-05-29)

Happy! is an American live-activity/adult animated black comedy/action-drama tv set series based on the four-issue comic volume serial of the aforementioned proper noun created past writer Grant Morrison and creative person Darick Robertson, with Brian Taylor serving equally director for a majority of the episodes (7 of the get-go eleven).

The series premiered on Syfy on December 6, 2017, receiving mostly positive reviews. On Jan 29, 2018, information technology was announced that Syfy had renewed the series for a 2d season, which premiered on March 27, 2019. On June iv, 2019, the series was cancelled by Syfy after 2 seasons.

Premise [edit]

Disgraced police detective Nick Sax (Christopher Meloni) lives equally a social outcast, filling his days with heavy drinking and substance abuse, moonlighting as a hitman to feed his diverse habits. After sustaining a massive heart attack, Nick comes into contact with a small, blue, winged unicorn named Happy (an animated character voiced by Patton Oswalt) that apparently only he can run across. Happy explains he is the imaginary friend of a little girl named Hailey, who has been kidnapped past a deranged man dressed as Santa Claus ("Very Bad Santa"). Happy reveals that Hailey is Nick'south estranged daughter, and sought Nick's assist believing him to be the hero cop that Hailey envisioned him to be. Though skeptical at first, Nick reluctantly agrees and the two work to salve Hailey. The events of their search slowly begin to reveal the existence of a massive, global conspiracy involving kid trafficking, sex cults, aliens, ancient Gods, and the apocalypse.

Bandage and characters [edit]

Main [edit]

  • Christopher Meloni as Nick Sax, a contemptuous, alcoholic ex-detective-turned-ex-hitman-turned-cab-driver[ane] [2]
  • Ritchie Coster every bit Francisco "Mr. Blue" Scaramucci, a wealthy, insecure, and temperamental crime boss who poses equally a legitimate man of affairs and wine importer[2]
    • Coster likewise portrays Orcus, the Roman god of death who possesses Scaramucci'south trunk
  • Lili Mirojnick as Meredith "Merry" McCarthy, a resilient homicide detective with a night by[iii]
  • Medina Senghore as Amanda Hansen, Nick's ex-married woman and Hailey's mother[2]
  • Patrick Fischler every bit "Smoothie" / "The Bunny", one of Mr. Blue's enforcers and a sociopathic killer who specializes in interrogation and torture[2]
  • Patton Oswalt as the voice of Happy, an "imaginary" blue, goofy, cartoonish, winged unicorn[iv] [5]
  • Christopher Fitzgerald equally Louis Sheinberg, a children's entertainer also known as "Sonny Polish", and to Blue equally "Mr. Problems" (season 2; recurring flavor 1)[6]
  • Bryce Lorenzo as Hailey Louise Hansen, a young daughter who was kidnapped, and sends her imaginary friend Happy to find assist (flavor 2; recurring flavour i)

Recurring [edit]

  • Joseph D. Reitman as Very Bad Santa, a delusional, drug-addicted psychopath dressed like Santa Claus who kidnaps children (recurring flavor one; invitee flavour two)[vii] [8]
  • Debi Mazar as Isabella Scaramucci, Bluish's sister, star of the reality show Secrets of My Sussex, and female parent of the four Scaramucci brothers gunned downwards past Sax[nine]
  • Gus Halper as Michelangelo "Disco Mikey" Scaramucci, the youngest of Isabella's sons (season 1)
  • Laura Poe as Jessica McCarthy, Merry's elderly widowed female parent (season 1)
  • Michael Maize as Le Dic, an arms dealer connected to Nick Sax's past
  • Carly Sullivan as Gala Scaramucci, Bluish's wife
  • Dante Pereira-Olson as Gerry Scaramucci, Blue's son
  • Jaimie Kelton as the voice of Bo Peep, an imaginary friend and Happy'southward love involvement
  • Antonia Rey as Assunta, Blue and Isabella Scaramucci's spiritual aunt
  • Joseph Perrino as Pal Scaramucci, one of Isabella Scaramucci'due south sons (season 1)
  • Ann-Margret as Bebe Debarge, a one-time actress and Sonny Polish'south wife (flavour 2)[half dozen]
  • Big Evidence equally Large Pinkish, Blue's prison swain (season ii)[ten]
  • Laura Darrell as Sister Lee (flavour 2)
  • Curtis Armstrong as Dayglo Doug (flavour 2)
  • Daniel Sunjata every bit Simon (season 2)

Guest [edit]

  • Jerry Springer as himself (in "What Smiles are For")
  • Alison Fraser as Mrs. Claus (in "When Christmas Was Christmas")
  • Billy West as the voice of Raspberry, an imaginary purple three-headed bulldog (in "The Scrapyard of Childish Things")
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic as the vocalisation of Smoking Human being Babe (in "nineteen Hours and 13 Minutes")[xi]
  • Christopher Meloni equally Janet Sax, mother of Nick Sax (in "Pervapalooza")
  • Amanda Palmer as leader of the Blueish Feather (in "Five Craven Fingers and a Gun")
  • Jeff Goldblum as God (in "Resurrection")

Episodes [edit]

Season one (2017–18) [edit]

Flavor 2 (2019) [edit]

Production [edit]

Happy was originally voiced past Bobby Moynihan in the pilot,[thirty] but was later replaced by Patton Oswalt.[5]

Release [edit]

The series premiered on Syfy on December 6, 2017.[31] On January 29, 2018, it was announced that Syfy had renewed the series for a second season,[32] which premiered on March 27, 2019.[33] On June four, 2019, the series was cancelled by Syfy after two seasons.[34] [35]

Reception [edit]

Critical response [edit]

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 80% with an average rating of half-dozen.two/10 based on 35 reviews. The website'southward critical consensus states, "Happy! certainly isn't for everyone, merely its appealingly oddball concept and potent performances from Chris Meloni and Patton Oswalt make for a gritty, dark one-act with definite—admitting unusual—appeal."[36] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 65 out of 100 based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[37]

Ratings [edit]

Season 1 [edit]

Season 2 [edit]

Happy! : U.S. viewers per episode (thousands)

Season Episode number
1 2 iii four 5 6 7 viii 9 10
i 1100 610 620 640 620 620 520 540 N/A
ii 340 290 300 290 310 290 270 240 250 290

Audience measurement performed by Nielsen Media Research [ citation needed ]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Live +vii ratings were not available, so Alive +three ratings take been used instead.

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Happy! at IMDb

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%21_%28TV_series%29

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