Inside the bizarro puppet world of R-rated ‘Ultra City Smiths’
noir-ish world of talking, singing, dancing baby dolls — repurposed as R-rated adults and voiced by an all-star cast including John C. Reilly and Kristen Bell.Think “Davey and Goliath” on acid and you might come close to imagining what it’s all about.“This was eight years in the offing,” said series creator Steve Conrad, who gave us the offbeat worlds of folksinging spy John Lakeman (Michael Dorman) in Amazon’s “Patriot” and “Perpetual Grace, Ltd.” (Epix), a surreal crime drama starring Ben Kingsley as corrupt pastor Byron Brown.“Jeff Dieter, who worked in the art department on ‘Patriot,’ was buying these baby dolls from yard sales and had them in his garage,” Conrad said.