Our take
With the show transporting us straight into its colorful alien world without context, The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy may not be the best animated sci-fi comedy out there, but it’s fairly entertaining once you get into it. It’s a strange amalgamation of genres, as the workplace issues and medical technobabble are made much more colorful, wacky, and fun with its alien sci-fi, but the show mostly works through the empathizable characters, led here by the comedic personalities of Stephanie Hsu and Keke Palmer. The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy is not quite out of this world, but if you’re a fan of American animated sitcoms, this might be right up your alley.
The story
Dr. Sleech and Dr. Klak — aliens, best friends and intergalactically renowned surgeons — tackle anxiety-eating parasites, illegal time loops and deep-space STIs.
Specializing in rare sci-fi illnesses, two brilliant alien doctors Sleech and Klak try to treat their patients’ odd pathogens, while looking for opportunities to win grants for their hospital.
The colorful, sci-fi world allows the show to conceivably have strange, eclectic plot devices like anxiety-eating parasites, lust-inducing mechanisms, conscious species being eaten, and patients literally exploding, but it also sanitizes its potential sting too, allowing us to laugh at the absurdity without much guilt.
It’s not quite out of this world, but it’s interesting to see Stephanie Hsu and Keke Palmer get right at it.
The details
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Who picked it
Isabella Endrinal is a curator at A Good Movie to Watch. She's now free from the corporate night shift. Previous articles have been published in outlets such as NANG Magazine. She's currently catching up on some classic films… if she isn't coping with the fact that the Haikyu anime will end soon.
