They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of Adult Swim's Primal, a video is worth however many millions of words I could potentially write to explain its genius. But I'll try, with some YouTube help here and there.
Primal debuted in 2019, the latest creation of animator Genndy Tartakovsky, who on the small screen has given us Dexter's Laboratory, the original hand-drawn Star Wars: Clone Wars series, and the astonishing time travel action epic Samurai Jack. Tartakovsky's characters should not be able to move the way they do. They are big and blocky, with limbs that seem wildly out of proportion for how a person is built. Yet when he and his collaborators do fight scenes, there's a fluidity to it all that belies the deliberately exaggerated design aesthetic.
The first season of Primal involved a caveman, Spear, and an unusually intelligent female dinosaur, Fang, who find themselves improbable allies when their respective families both die tragically. Never mind that men and dinosaurs didn't live at the same time. Tartakovsky's work defies eras as much as it defies the laws of physics. The first season mostly offered compact, standalone adventure, where Spear and Fang fought various other dinosaurs. It didn't need to get too complicated, because at least once an episode, it could offer a set piece like this: