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From ‘The Simpsons’ to ‘Solar Opposites,’ Inside TV’s Adult Animation Boom

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Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVWhen “The Simpsons” premiered in 1989, it was an outlier. Animated shows in primetime were by no means unprecedented — “The Flintstones” broke that barrier in the ’60s — but never before had an animated series aimed at adults resonated so powerfully or had as significant an impact on a network as “The Simpsons” did for Fox.

Three decades later, though, such series are having their moment in a big way.Mike Moon, head of adult animation at Netflix, began his career as an artist on “The Simpsons.” What he’s seen in the years since has been a blossoming of adult animation on U.S.

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