Netflix has quietly been carving out a space for adult-driven animation with critical darlings like “Bojack Horseman,” “F for Family,” and “Big Mouth” leading the way by making year-end lists and even landing Emmy nominations. It makes sense that this section of the streaming service would eventually get to something like “Hoops,” a depressing new comedy about a foul-mouthed high school basketball coach who hates everything about his life, but especially despises the collection of unathletic losers he’s been asked to turn into a winning team. While some animation uses the form to expand the visual boundaries of the story that unfolds in ways that budgets for normal television would never realistically allow, “Hoops” is really just a traditional pay cable sitcom in animated form, although it would probably feel even more aggressively misanthropic to watch if it featured actual teenagers, as hard as that may be to believe.

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