Adventure Time Season 7
I suppose this was inevitable. Adventure Time’s lustre was always going to fade for me at some point.
Adventure Time: Islands
Where Adventure Time: Stakes! succeeded by focusing on the supporting cast, Islands suffers through its inability to offer anything outside the ordinary.
Steven Universe – Season 2
Steven Universe is a good show. It’s an important show. And, unfortunately, those two things don’t always play nicely together.
Adventure Time Season 6
A consistently excellent show celebrates one of its strongest seasons by exploiting the diverse storytelling enabled by rich world-building.
Steven Universe – Season 1
Steven Universe is more than an expression of identity politics – it’s a damn good show.
Adventure Time: Stakes! and the Implacability of the Past
Any long-running television show tends to look to its past for inspiration. One of the primary drawcards of serialised TV is characterisation, and what better way to flesh out a character than delve into their past. There’s a tendency for this to go bad – I’m thinking specifically of a second season episode of The…
Over the Garden Wall
Ever wonder what might happen if Adventure Time’s Jake and Finn ended up in an Enid Blyton novel? Then Over the Garden Wall is the show – or ten-episode miniseries, if you prefer – for you! That’s a slight over-simplification of what’s going on here. Over the Garden Wall shares with Adventure Time a fondness…
Adventure Time Season 5
Writing about Adventure Time’s fourth season last year, I described it as both “fantastic and slightly disappointing” due to its reluctance to continue to expand creatively. But if season four maintained the level of quality and creativity of its prior season, season five ups the game by embracing the show’s potential for melancholy and complexity…
Adventure Time Season 4
Adventure Time’s third season represented an evolutionary leap forward for the show, taking Pendleton Ward’s template – a preschool mix of Dadaism and Dungeons & Dragons portioned out in eleven minute episodes – and directing towards experimentation and serialisation alike. The third season featured a range of episodes that deviated from the established formula of…
Rick and Morty Season 1
The Simpsons recently turned to Rejected’s Don Hertzfeldt to provide the couch gag for their twenty-sixth season premiere (yep, they’ve really been going that long). Hertzfeldt provided a compellingly weird piece of sci-fi satire, biting the hand that feeds and retching up a twisted nightmare (go watch it). While I didn’t watch the episode itself…
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