![]() “Amazon was very open from the beginning,” said Ray, “and was interested on their side of it as well in really expanding out what adult animation meant. They were bawdy and rowdy and dirty, and we knew that we couldn’t shy away from that. ![]() “But for us it was about maintaining the original story and the original sort of vibe of the Vox Machina characters. “We knew that if we shot for a PG-type rating, or something that was sort of younged down and more accessible to a kid audience, we might draw maybe more viewers,” said Sam Riegel, who plays the gnomish bard Scanlan Shorthalt. “There were other potential distributors that we were talking about that were more interested in making it maybe a children’s show, or wanting to go a different direction, or more serious political fantasy, a la Game of Thrones.” “We lucked out with Amazon,” said Marisha Ray, who plays half-elf druid Keyleth, in an interview with Polygon. ![]() Things might have looked very different had the creators opted for another platform like Netflix, Hulu, or Apple TV. But many of the executives sitting across the table at other companies wanted changes, the group says. Ultimately, that deal allowed them to extend the project to two full seasons. For fans of the long-running Dungeons & Dragons actual play series, none of that should sound out of character, but turns out some TV executives wanted to pump the brakes.įollowing its massively successful crowdfunding campaign, the Critical Role troupe took the opportunity to shop the project around before landing on Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service. Critical Role’s new animated series The Legend of Vox Machina kicks off with two waterfalls of vomit, one vigorous sex scene, and the unmistakable silhouette of a gnome’s testicles.
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