SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Season 1 of “Long Story Short,” now streaming on Netflix.
The adult animated sitcom “Long Story Short” begins with a family grieving the loss of a matriarch. But because the show uses a non-linear structure that jumps around in time, it takes about half the 10-episode season before we realize the show is about the same family grieving another loved one. In the first scene, set in the 1990s, the Schwooper family — Naomi (Lisa Edelstein), Elliot (Paul Reiser), and their children Avi (Ben Feldman), Shira (Abbi Jacobson) and Yoshi (Max Greenfield) — drive home from Naomi’s mother’s funeral. In the 2020s, we
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