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Created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Long Story Short is an adult animated sitcom that features the voices of Ben Feldman, Abbi Jacobson, Lisa Edelstein, and others. The series premiered on Netflix on August 22, 2025 and Long Story Short has one season till now and has 10 episodes.
The sitcom is about a middle-class Jewish family and the story is told in a non-linear format. In the family, there are three siblings, Avi (Feldman), Shira (Jacobson), and Yoshi (Max Grrenfield). All of the are going through adulthood while also reflecting upon their religious childhood.
Long Story Short is nuanced and layered as it reflects upon themes like family dynamics, trauma, messy-ness and bickering in families, and much more. The parents of the three siblings are Naomi and Elliot and the show’s season 1 ends with the Schwooper family having a reunion that makes the ending more hopeful.
Disclaimer: The article contains spoilers about the show.
Long Story Short ending recap
The final episode of the show features the Schwoopers family in Las Vegas as they participate in a funeral for their Uncle Barry Kein, the widower of Naomi’s mother’s sister. The Schwoopers don’t want to go as the Kleins didn’t attend their mother’s funeral, but they end up going.
Further, Elliot and his children, Avi, Shira, and Yoshi, are all living separate lives in different places. Elliot is therefore happy to go to the funeral and get a chance to meet his children. While Yoshi is focused on his new faith, Shira and Kendra are dealing with family life, and Avi is trying co-parenting with Jen and wants a better relationship with his daughter Hannah.
Yoshi misses the funeral proper after getting lost in the chaos of Las Vegas and he is actually happy as he did not want to go to another funeral after his mother Naomi’s death. Even though Yoshi does not attend the funeral and gets stranded, the Schwoopers decide that staying with family is important.
Therefore, family is put first at the end of Long Story Short and everyone spends Shabbat with Yoshi and leaves differences behind. Promises are made about the family reuniting more often and it ends up giving Elliot and his children the space to process Naomi’s death.
Other major plot points in Long Story Short season finale
After Naomi died, Uncle Barry refuses to give the children the brooch of their mother. During the funeral at the end of the show, the Schwoopers see the brooch in Barry’s girlfriend Vivian’s possession. While several hijinks happen as the kids try to steal it from her and spill liquid on her clothes, they are unable to get the brooch.
Further, the ending of Long Story Short makes it clear that Avi and Jen are no longer together. The show showcases the differences and distances that have happened in their relationship as Jen sacrificed her career to follow Avi and after Naomi’s death, their marriage is no longer the same. They are now divorced and sharing custody of their daughter Hannah. Jen has also found a new boyfriend.
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Long Story Short is available on Netflix.
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