![]() ![]() Writing to an audience of people who read The New Yorker, Nussbaum claims that, “Five late-season episodes should suffice” for those interested in the show. In another fantastic essay, Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker admits to having taken a while to “drop the snotty attitude.” Nussbaum identifies all of the ways one can watch Adventure Time: as a somewhat pretentious, philosophical journey through childhood as a fun, cool cartoon about a boy and his magical stretching dog fighting monsters as a deep, mythology-rich look at a post-apocalyptic wasteland or as the tragedy of the Ice King and Marceline, mirroring Finn’s lurching toward maturity. Honestly, writing anything about Adventure Time seems superfluous in the face of this astonishing Awl cover story on the show by Maria Bustillos (go read it and come back). But it’s hard to imagine who’d be an Adventure Time hater, assuming they had the right introduction to the series. And while the premise-an adventuring boy (Finn) and his magical stretching dog/brother/best friend (Jake) traverse a post-apocalyptic wasteland full of candy people-is wildly attractive depending on your sense of whimsy, it’s easy to imagine getting turned off by a story that asks the viewer to emotionally invest in a talking cinnamon bun. It’s a kids’ show, which is already a strike against it for boring, cynical adults. ![]() It's the only show on television I’d unequivocally recommend to anyone.Īt first glance, Adventure Time (which already has a cult fanase) doesn’t seem like the best candidate for universal love. To take just a few examples, Breaking Bad is just too intense for some people Mad Men has its fair share of detractors and the The Americans and Hannibal take great pains to be prickly.Įnter: Adventure Time, which premieres its sixth season tonight. (You know they never will.) But take into account completely reasonable differences in taste without being overzealous, and it becomes a lot harder to universally suggest anything. There’s a ton of great television, and, consequently, TV shows that everyone is proclaiming they’ll catch up on over the summer. “Oh, you should totally watch ” is a fraught statement in the best of cases.
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