Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal is back. And it still kicks ass. The animated Cartoon Network series, which just picked up a handful of Primetime Emmy awards, returns to the Adult Swim programming block this Sunday night. The wordless series, set in a fantastical version of the primordial past, features the ongoing adventures of brutish caveman Spear and his dinosaur companion Fang. (At the end of the first five episodes, which aired last year, Fang was mortally wounded, which is resolved in the first episode of this new batch.) After the initial 10 episodes is completed this year, get ready for …

Over 20 years later and the dark twist still surprises me.

Spear and Fang are back. Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal, one of last year’s very best television series, will be back on October 4. That’s when another five episodes of the blood-soaked series, charting the friendship between a caveman and a dinosaur and their series of pulpy misadventures, begins as part of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming block. And – even better news! – Primal has officially been renewed for a 10-episode second season in 2021. (Tartakovsky alluded to this in our recent Collider Connected chat.) If you never watched the first five episodes, you should get on …

Genndy Tartakovsky is one of the most original and influential voices in animation. Even if you don’t know his name, chances are you’ve seen (and, undoubtedly, been dazzled by) his work. Tartakovsky has been responsible for everything from Dexter’s Laboratory to Samurai Jack to all three Hotel Transylvania films to his latest endeavor – the brutal, deeply brilliant Adult Swim series Primal. So when we connected with Tartakovsky for an episode of Collider Connected, we had a lot to discuss. Among the topics covered in the video above – how his animated Clone Wars series was wiped from the …

Genndy Tartakovsky takes audience back to the dawn of evolution, as a caveman and a dinosaur bond over their shared grief and desire to survive.

I can't even imagine it ending any other way.

Tonight at midnight on Adult Swim, Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal will emerge from the mists of time to absolutely savage everything you've ever held near and/or dear about cartoons. (Yeah and that's the official title now that Nic Cage has gone and gummed up the works with his similarly named kidnapped jaguar movie.) This five-night epic event series tells the tale of Spear, a prehistoric caveman, and Fang, a lone dinosaur on the brink of extinction. They're forced into an uneasy partnership in order to work together and survive the kill-or-be-killed world …

On this episode of the Saturday Mourning Cartoons podcast, Sean Paul Ellis and Dave Trumbore review Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal, a new prehistoric animated series coming to Adult Swim in a special five-night event beginning Monday, October 7th at midnight. The new show lives up to its title in a story that follows a lone caveman and a predatory dinosaur as they form a contentious partnership in order to survive a kill-or-be-killed world. It's an absolute stunner, and from its intentional lack of dialogue, to its incredible action sequences, to wonderfully imaginative (and often nightmarish) …

There aren't many formulas as guaranteed to produce movie magic like Nicolas Cage + a wild jaguar + a deadly assassin so naturally, we're really looking forward to Primal. Check out the trailer here, and then scroll down to see our exclusive poster that puts Cage and his four-legged foe front and center positively radiating big jungle energy. Primal stars Cage as Frank Walsh, a big game hunter and collector who finally bags his prized prey, a rare white jaguar. Unfortunately for Frank, the boat carrying his score is also ferrying an international assassin, Richard Loffler (Kevin Durand), to …

There aren't many formulas as guaranteed to produce movie magic like Nicolas Cage + a wild jaguar + a deadly assassin so naturally, we're really looking forward to Primal. Check out the trailer here, and then scroll down to see our exclusive poster that puts Cage and his four-legged foe front and center positively radiating big jungle energy. Primal stars Cage as Frank Walsh, a big game hunter and collector who finally bags his prized prey, a rare white jaguar. Unfortunately for Frank, the boat carrying his score is also ferrying an international assassin, Richard Loffler (Kevin Durand), to …

I think it's about time we as a society stop trying to figure out just what the hell Nicolas Cage is doing and simply start appreciating that we're alive to witness him do it. Hot off his alpaca-fueled freakouts in Richard Stanley's H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space, Cage is back with Primal, an action-thriller that reads like a truly demented game of "Yes, and." Do you want to see Nicolas Cage as a big game hunter transporting a valuable white jaguar across the ocean? Obviously, yes. But what if there was also …

Nic Cage plays a big game hunter who battles man and beast in this action thriller.

Genndy Tartakovsky, the creator of Samurai Jack and Dexter's Laboratory, and the architect behind Sony's Hotel Transylvania franchise, will be bringing a new, original animated series to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim this fall. The series' pick-up for Primal extends the WarnerMedia channel's relationship with Tartakovsky, which is already 20+ years strong. As THR reports, Primal centers on "a caveman at the dawn of evolution and a dinosaur on the brink of extinction" who form an unlikely bond that will be their only hope to survive a deadly and violent prehistoric, primordial world. Envisioned as a …