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Dispatch is full of heart and jokes, and it's one of the best superhero TV shows around.

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As someone who still carries a torch for Telltale narrative adventures, I really wanted AdHoc Studio's Dispatch—a superhero workplace comedy full of HR violations—to be great, even as I had my doubts about the return of the episodic release model and the prevalence of celebrity streamers in the cast.

Those doubts were a distant memory by the end of the second episode, thankfully, and the rest of the eight-episode run only served to cement this as a brilliant piece of interactive TV. I am genuinely sad that it's over and desperately hoping for a second season.

Dispatch has rizz for days. With such a large cast, many of whom have more experience streaming than voice acting, like Jacksepticeye and MoistCr1TiKaL. I expected there to be at least a couple of duds, but nope! Everyone kills it. Even the villain-turned-hero that's been designed for us to hate—Flambae, a short-tempered asshole firestarter—gets multiple moments to shine.

When he got up on stage during a karaoke night to give us a rendition of Bitch, with the lyrics changed to call into question the size of the protagonist Robert Robertson's penis, I just couldn't hate him.

Dispatch is a million miles away from the quippy, family-friendly MCU. We've got heroes talking about their sex dreams, colleagues beating each other up, a barrage of cutting insults, booze-based bribery and in-office romances that would make HR professionals squirm.

But it's also full of heart. Dispatch is ultimately a story about second chances—a fallen hero trying to find his place in the world after his super-powered mech suit is blown to smithereens; villains trying to walk a new path, protecting a city that expects them to fail; people who have spent their lives closed off, opening up to their found family.

Where it indulges in superhero cliches, it does so with a wink and a grin, but it's also a celebration of classic heroic stories, and the surprising ability for characters rooted in comic books to reveal something about ourselves or challenge us to be better. You are more than your past, more than your failures, more than your worst moments, it says.

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