Hazbin Hotel Is Worth The Year of Hype From just the original song “Inside of every Demon is a Rainbow,” Hazbin Hotel had so much promise. It was made by a small team, posted online, but with gorgeous animation, stellar voice work, and an aesthetic that is both detailed and imaginative—which all meant I was…
My Life as a Teenage Robot Is Visually Distinct I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen the first episode of My Life as a Teenage Robot. At least on three separate occasions, I’ve sat down and watched this stylized show about a robot who wants to be a teenager—and each time I’ve found…
The Dark Crystal: A Unique New World The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is a triumph of alternative presentation. The puppetry and practical effects are so intrinsic to the show that it’s impossible to not notice it every second of watching. I cannot imagine the work it took to create not only the various characters…
Corpse Bride Is Too Good To Leave Dead As a fan of The Nightmare Before Christmas, you’d think I would have gotten to Corpse Bride sooner, but here we are. And, yes, I do have to compare the two of them, because they are extremely similar. From style to plot to progression to even the…
What Of Media Not Created For My Eyes? In my recent review of Twelve Forever, a cartoon that focused on the experience of growing up, I mentioned how I was fortunate to have a female viewer with me to tell me that the experience of, in this case, receiving a bra as a present around…
Spoilers Ahead: Go Watch I Am Mother I Am Mother is a film that seeks to subvert expectations and prey upon the genre savvy bunch that is the modern audience but ultimately can’t stray from its own well-worn niche and standard plot machinations—but I don’t mean that as an inherent negative. And, fair warning, this is…
There’s No Deep Issue In Captain Marvel I don’t get the Captain Marvel controversy. The internet’s reaction to this film was just a curiosity before I’d seen it but now is just abjectly confusing. I’m putting a line in the sand here and stating that the movie is fine, not fantastic, but fine, fun, and not…
Danny Phantom: Not A Nostalgia Ghost Danny Phantom is still a good show. My nostalgia for the series was something fierce, even if the finale left much to be desired. I honestly was expecting to be savagely disabused, again, of my childhood memories, but no, Danny Phantom nails its first episode on several layers. Like,…
Jimmy Neutron Is Such A Strange Show My memories of Jimmy Neutron are false. I remember this show being a silly thing that took a similar premise to Dexter’s Lab and made it into something a lot more irreverent and light-hearted. A pleasant series with pretty good meme material all things considered. But, wow, going…
Bandersnatch: Something Old Made New Bandersnatch deserves a lot of slack, simply because it’s a technical achievement on another level and the fact it can function through a television interface is something that might become a game-changer. I’m genuinely excited to see what other creators are going to do with this technique. What sort of creations…
The Lego Movie 2 Is Joyful Pure Brilliance Can we just openly acknowledge that the team behind the Lego Movie franchise is brilliant and understand a modern audience on a level that’s honestly shocking and delightful and only further prove that with The Lego Movie: The Second Part? What had already been a creation that made…
Ben 10 Is A Fine Show But Not That Great Sadly, the old shows cannot all be winners: the first episode of Ben 10, while not terrible or bad by any stretch, was not the masterpiece of fun sci-fi that my nostalgia goggles showed me whenever I thought back. It really had such a good…
