Smiling Friends Ends Tonight – Here’s How to Watch the Final Episodes

Otherwise, the episodes will be available to stream on HBO Max the next day, April 13. While HBO Max hasn’t confirmed an exact release time, their ‘next-day’ streaming releases typically drop at 3am ET.

The episodes make up the ninth and tenth episodes of the third season, with the series ending at 28 episodes total.

Zach Hadel and Michael Cusack pitched Smiling Friends all the way back in 2018, and have retained creative control over the series for its full three seasons. Both creators have clarified that the decision to end the series was entirely their own, though was ultimately a decision that Adult Swim supported.

The full announcement video is available on Adult Swim’s YouTube channel, with both creators highlighting their desire to not “overstay the show’s welcome” and instead end on a high note. With this context, I wouldn’t expect these last two episodes to serve as ‘finales’ in the traditional sense, as it’s possible these episodes were developed before the decision to end the series.

While we haven’t reviewed every season, we did get the chance to review some episodes from Season 2. Writing for IGN, Steven Nguyen Scaife praised Hadel and Cusack for getting “deep and weird with their animated experiments, bolstering hilarious writing with impressive craft and infectious creativity.”

Blythe (she/her) is an Audience Development Coordinator at IGN who, when she isn’t following streaming news, spends way too much time in character customization screens and tracking down collectibles.