At last, a show that does for Jewish families what BoJack Horseman did for washed-up sitcom stars. Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s Long Story Short might not be what you’d expect from the creator of animation history’s most self-loathing equine—in fact, there are no horses at all, although a pack of (non-talking) wolves do make a key appearance. But he’s channeled the same wry mixture of satire and sentiment into the Schwoopers, who the show follows through three generations and over the course of 60-plus years. Instead of making its way through the family’s history in a linear fashion, Bob-Waksberg and his writers jump backward and forward in time. Sometimes the effect is revelatory, as we realize that an offhand remark is rooted in decades of resentment and repressed trauma, and sometimes it’

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