Over the Garden Wall

[frayadjacent]

Mr. Adjacent and I recently watched the Cartoon Network miniseries Over the Garden Wall. It is lovely and sweet and cute in a good way, and at times surprisingly dark. It's fairly complex in its themes, though it's not as deep as Steven Universe. The animation is gorgeous.

If you're interested, here's a song from one of the episodes. There are no spoilers and it showcases how endearing one of the characters is. Though there's a lot more to the show than that.

"Over the Garden Wall Potatoes and Molasses Song" (Watch on YouTube)

I'd give Over the Garden Wall 8/10, which in my mind is a good score; I don't practice television grade inflation. It loses points by not having enough female characters and by using a couple of overused tropes, though it puts a fun twist on one of those in the end.

Also it's comprised of ten 11-minute episodes. Which is so manageable!

I'm thinking this will be a Festivids nomination for sure.

Comments

[omens]

Oh I love OTGW! It's so weird and scary and adorable!!

[frayadjacent]

I'm glad someone else here has watched it! Weird and scary and adorable is totally right.

[silveradept]

It's got a surprisingly deep talent pool attached to it, as well, which makes the largely surreal experience of watching it that much better.

The ending worked a few tropes I wasn't fond of, but the story itself was mostly a pile of interesting WTF that became clear later.

(Hi, I think I looked at your space during the previous friending meme. Then life ate me, and I'm now clearing out my tabs.)

[frayadjacent]

Hi back! Yeah, your comments are pretty much exactly how I felt about it as well.