Praise Petey is a new adult animated comedy television series that has been making waves since it was announced. The show is filled with satire, humor, and self-aware quips that the audience has loved so far.
The art style is quite good, and fans are glad that it hasn’t been inspired by Family Guy with rather realistic body proportions.
The show was released on 21 July 2023 on Freeform and was created by Anna Drezen. The most astonishing part about the series is the absurdity of setting a female-empowerment narrative in the middle of blood-thirsty cult that our protagonist suddenly inherited from her father.
A lot of feminist and women-empowerment shows and movies are being released recently like Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Praise Petey is all set to follow that. The show has its own undeniable charm although it may look like a generic comedy show at first glance.
The critics have also drawn Praise Petey’s comparison to some popular American sitcoms like Schitts Creek, and calling it a genius parody. The narrative is very female-centric as Petey tries change the cult New Utopia into her own version of a “de-weirdified” cult instead of letting it be as it was under her father’s guidance.
Petey and her fiance break up, and she loses her best friend and her home as well on the same day.
Petey soon finds out through her distant yet rich mother that she has a father, and he also town called the Southern town called New Utopia and she has inherited it.
Petey is not aware that it is a cult until she reaches her destination only to find out herself. Petey decides to run it since she no longer has a job and that is where the story really begins.
We are introduced to a wide range of diverse characters upon Petey’s arrival, and almost everyone is happy to welcome her other than Bandit. People are speculating that Bandit will be Petey’s love interest ahead in the series but for now, Bandit is not happy to see Petey mostly because he hated her father.
Petey soon realizes that her father is a megalomaniacal leader and the cult has some extremely strange practices.
It now became Petey’s motivation to change the cult and make it somewhat more normal by changing the practices that her father had encouraged and making everything more to her liking.
Praise Petey not only has a female protagonist, but even the setting is much more unique than the rest of the series we have seen.
For one, it does not focus on family dynamics and we also get to see quite some personal growth for Petey. The show is a refreshing series that provides the audience with an invigorating female perspective and it is also somewhat on the same page as the edgy yet satirical Cruel Summer and Single Dunk Female.
Praise Petey: Release Schedule
Praise Petey premiered on Freeform on 21 July 2023 with Episode 1 and 2 being released on the same date. The series will have a total of 10 episodes and two episodes will be released together each week. We have given the release schedule for all the episodes below, along with their titles.
- Episode 1 titled “Taxi To The South!”: 21 July 2023 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)
- Episode 2 titled “Unemployment Crisis”: 21 July 2023 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)
- Episode 3 titled “We Need $30”: 28 July 2023 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)
- Episode 4 titled “Father’s Knee”: 28 July 2023 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)
- Episode 5 titled “Barn Wedding”: 4 August 2023 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)
- Episode 6 titled “Not-Sad Adult Birthday”: 4 August 2023 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)
- Episode 7 titled “The Tangible Secret”: 11 August 2023 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)
- Episode 8 titled “Drippy Drip”: 11 August 2023 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)
- Episode 9 titled “Punishment Hole”: 18 August 2023 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)
- Episode 10 titled “Comet Day”: 18 August 2023 at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Praise Petey: Streaming Guide
Praise Petey is available to watch on Freeform when episodes are released. The Episodes will also be released on Hulu the day after they are aired.
