Life Guards

Life Guards is an American animated fantasy comedy-drama/sitcom created by Dan Morshell and developed by Morshell and Patric M. Verrone, that premiered on HBO on September 21, 2006 and ran until TBD, 2014, set in the fictional city of Newton; Illinois follows Keith Willberger, a recently-divorced man who is guided by warped versions of fantastical "figures" through life, this includes laid-back God, jerkish Devil, ditzy lumberjack Paul Bunyan, perfectionist King Arthur, and a crazy and wacky cartoon duck named Bread.

Morshell, a writer for the animated Kids' WB cartoon The Misadventures of Andy & Andrew, began working on the show in 2004, originally was gonna pitched to The WB, the show was rejected for being "too dark for the network", HBO, however, saw interest in the idea for the show, and picked it up for a 13-episode season, the show officially premiered on September 21, 2006, and received immediate critical acclaim for it's writing, characters, and emotional weight between comedy and drama.

The show has often been described as a "mix between comedy, fantasy, drama, and tragedy", in a 2009 interview, Morshell and Verrone said that the idea for it's dramatic-comedic format was because Morshell hated how almost every adult cartoon nowadays never gets time for drama, and wanted to make a semi-comedic show.

The show can be streamed on HBO Max.