If you’ve seen Bojack, you’ll recognise the aesthetic of a world filled with animals, humans, animal people and the addition of plant people – and that’s because show creator Lisa Hannawalt cut her teeth on the Netflix animated series as a cartoonist and production designer.

Branching out on her own, Hanawalt has evolved the Bojack style with her own distinct and energetic Tuca & Bertie flavour as well as offered, as she puts it, a more “warm and optimistic” narrative that stands apart from the somewhat nihilistic pessimism championed by her former show. That doesn’t mean Tuca & Bertie shies away from some of the toughest issues concerning mental health, sexual health and consent that are dominating our cultural consciousness right now, especially for women, but it takes a more life-affirming approach rather than a despairing one. It’s also very much grounded in that ill-feeling of being 30 and not believing you’re living your best life.

“I had seen a lot of shows about women in their 20s and they’re great, you know, Broad City, Girls,” Hanawalt told HuffPost. “But I wanted to kind of show what it looks like when you’re getting into your 30s and your lives are moving in different directions and some people start to worry about getting left behind.

Tuca & Bertie shows how conditioned women are to keep people happy in spite of their pain