Garden Wall
Aug. 24th, 2020 02:46 pmPatrick McHale et al, Over the Garden Wall
Ten 11-minute episodes, plus the noncanonical pilot. Animated.
Teenaged Wirt and his young brother Gregory wander through a fairy-tale-esque forest, trying to find their way home.
I ... enjoyed? this. It felt slow at times, especially given that it's eleven-minute episodes. I blame the occasional musical numbers, coupled with the rural-americana aesthetic. But the dialogue's fun, the characterization's well done, and there's a surreal quality to the storytelling that just works for me.
This falls into the same category of stories as Labyrinth or Susan Cooper's Seaward, where it looks suspiciously like It Was All A Dream but there are enough unexplained things afterwards that it clearly wasn't. I appreciate that a lot.
I'm still thinking about it several days later, so it certainly made an impression.
Ten 11-minute episodes, plus the noncanonical pilot. Animated.
Teenaged Wirt and his young brother Gregory wander through a fairy-tale-esque forest, trying to find their way home.
I ... enjoyed? this. It felt slow at times, especially given that it's eleven-minute episodes. I blame the occasional musical numbers, coupled with the rural-americana aesthetic. But the dialogue's fun, the characterization's well done, and there's a surreal quality to the storytelling that just works for me.
This falls into the same category of stories as Labyrinth or Susan Cooper's Seaward, where it looks suspiciously like It Was All A Dream but there are enough unexplained things afterwards that it clearly wasn't. I appreciate that a lot.
I'm still thinking about it several days later, so it certainly made an impression.