Men in Black: The Animated Series is now streaming on tubes

If you were growing in the late 90s glued to the children’s WB on Saturday morning, you probably remember Men in Black: The Animated Series. With its elegant black clothes, intergalactic gadgets and truly strange aliens design, the show has extended the world of success of 1997 in a way that actually seemed a natural continuation.

The show was actually a lot of fun! It was really well done and I thought it was more fun movies. Now, for the first time for centuries, some of them are finally streaming on tubes.

The series worked for four seasons from 1997 to 2001, stacking 53 episodes that followed the agent Rookie J (Keith Diamond) and the veteran agent impassive K (And o’ross and later Gregg Berger) while they assumed all sorts of galactic threats from Inanimati who move the shape to the Vermax parasite.

Have been achieved by animated versions of cinematographic favorites such as The Worm Guys (Patrick Pinney AND Pat Fraley), Frank the Pug (Eddie Barth) and even Vincent d’Onofriowho has returned to voice in an equally disturbing way as Edgar, Edwin the Bug.

But despite being one of the freshest and most elegant spin -off TVs in the 90s, Men in Black: The Series It has mostly faded into the ether. Only season 1 has ever reached DVD, long out of press, and its short time on Sony’s crackle was and came. It was, in all respects, missing in action.

Now, tubes, the streaming service supported by free advertising has reported the show … a kind of. They loaded 15 episodes: the first complete season and two of the season 2. It’s not everything, but considering that there is no digital version elsewhere, it is better than nothing.

And if you have been interested in revisiting this series or presenting it to someone who knows only the films, this is currently your best shot.

It is worth remembering how much love went to create this animated socket. Unlike the end of the film, where the agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) It retires and comes neurally, the show rewritten that piece of canon to keep the dynamic duo intact.

“In proceeding with this series, we decided to bring some adjustments and ignored the end of the film in which Kay was neuralized and returned to his previous life”, co-creator and showrunner of the series “, Duane Capizzi explained in a 1997 interview with Mania magazine.

“In this way we could keep it in the series because we felt [Men in Black‘s] The main dynamic was among the characters of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. “

“So, rather than finding the real sequel, which Amblin and Columbia will probably make anyway, we decided to ignore the ending and continue the adventures,” added Capizzi.

It is worth revisiting or looking at the show for the first time.