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Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell has always been fearless with its storytelling, but Casper Kelly and Dave Willis’ series has now reached a level of confidence where it can impressively mash together its Dadaist visual gags and absurdist premises with nuanced themes and the monotony of everyday life. It’s absolutely the only series that you’ll come across where Satan stresses over union rates and hires scabs to carry out the Apocalypse or where a stark conversation about the price of one’s soul is juxtaposed to a testicle being used as a teabag. This season, more than any other, taps into a level of emotion and vulnerability that helps make this ridiculous show still feel very human.

Live-action programs aren’t as plentiful as they once were on Adult Swim, but Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell remains the most stunning example of what can be done with the format. Four seasons in, it can be easy to take the show’s makeup and costume design for granted and grow accustomed to its strangeness by now, but not enough praise can be given to this show’s aesthetic. Horrific murders and dismemberments come to life in just the right way that these gruesome scenes properly tow the line between disturbing and comedic. Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell makes you wonder just enough if you should be laughing at this carnage without actually making you feel guilty for taking pleasure in this mayhem.

The look of the show’s locations and monsters is impressive and this season puts together some especially complicated set pieces like deaths set atop the Seven Wonders of the World or a stable for the Apocalypse’s horses. During some of the more complex sequences the show honestly feels like a cartoon, which is the highest kind of praise you can give to something as heightened as this. Casper Kelly and Dave Willis continue to prove why they’re formidable names in the television industry. Many may regard Too Many Cooks as their greatest achievement, but there are several bits in this season, like a commercial for an ultra-modern Ouija board, that contain the same energy as their viral “infomercial.”

In terms of the show’s performances, Henry Zebrowski brings such a joyful, enthusiasm to Gary’s well-intentioned idiocy. Even when the stakes are on the smaller side with this show it’s still incredibly delightful to watch Gary fumble through simple tasks and try not to drown in a sea of confusion. The season also understands when to have Gary off on his own and when it’s better to have him working through Hell’s problems as part of an ensemble. Additionally, all of the season’s valiant guest stars are also put to use in inspired ways. Jon Glaser is back as Hell’s torture coach, George Wendt as a Horseman of the Apocalypse, not Barack Obama, and Joey Fatone as himself, in what honestly might be the best performance of the season.