I really wanted to like Over The Garden Wall after reading the art book, but I just could not get into it. I can appreciate the art style and the attempt to create a children's show that is thematically dark, but the script and direction were all over the place. Every episode just hopped restlessly from inane banter, to blunt exposition, to weird scenario, to musical number, to more inane banter...and so on, at a ridiculous pace. In this regard it follows the Adventure Time format, but is considerably less amusing with less memorable characters (I think I managed a smirk about four times in ten episodes).
It was impossible to care about Wirt and Creg or their bizarre predicaments and the fleeting emotional moments felt hollow and unrewarding. There were good ideas here about loneliness and grief, but they were not given adequate time in the script to carry any weight and were cheapened by the carnival of nonsense imagery and stupid gags.
High points are John Cleese's Monty Python-esque voice acting and some creepy imagery. Very over-rated.
It was impossible to care about Wirt and Creg or their bizarre predicaments and the fleeting emotional moments felt hollow and unrewarding. There were good ideas here about loneliness and grief, but they were not given adequate time in the script to carry any weight and were cheapened by the carnival of nonsense imagery and stupid gags.
High points are John Cleese's Monty Python-esque voice acting and some creepy imagery. Very over-rated.