I’d watch the first season of Critical Role instead. Vic Machina is ok, but it really fails to capture what made the show great, that it’s all a grand game. In Critical Role, there are the players and the characters, and in Vox Machina, there’s just the characters.

For example you have Grog, the barbarian of the party. In Critical Role, his player Travis is a smart guy playing a dumb character, so he is smart enough to comment on how dumb his character can be while he’s playing him, adding another dimension to the whole thing, slipping in comedic moments where he inserts his own intelligence into Grog, and it works because the context is a game. But in Vox Machina, Grog is a very flanderized version of how Travis originally played him, he is silly or tough, but it lacks that spark of his clever on-the-spot improv and self-inserts.

Critical Role shows the cleverness of its players, and after seeing that, Vox Machina feels so plain and hollow without the commentary of the players.