Adventure Time Review 6×42 and 6×43: “Hot Diggety Doom” and “The Comet”

We’re thirsty for answers. But what does Finn want? At the beginning of this week, I littered my review with questions. I should have known better. Adventure Time‘s season finales have left things in chaos and questions while its premieres settle things…

Adventure Time Review 6×41: “On the Lam”

In this episode’s pivotal moment, Martin Mertens ostensibly sacrifices an accomplice he thinks of as his child–enough to call him Martin 2–for the sake of ill-conceived getaway. Martin Mertens is bad news. He’s given us nothing but trouble every second…

Adventure Time Review 6×40: “Orgalorg”

Adventure Time is so wonderful in rewarding its audience’s attention to small details. Just this Monday, a mysterious figure from “Puhoy” was revealed as GOLB, and we saw the past of Magic Man’s lost wife Garbles, who appeared before only…

Adventure Time 6×39 review: “Be Sweet”

I went into the #Finale last night with a list of questions. This episode’s premise teased some sort of look into a big one, but “Be Sweet” was appropriately rather ordinary. In “Be Sweet,” the show’s funniest character is made…

Adventure Time 6×38 Review: “You Forgot Your Floaties”

Entering the #Finale, Adventure Time has an astonishing number of hanging threads. Here they are, each in the form of a question, in what I presume is their ascending order of importance: •Who is Susan Strong, and what is the significance…

TV Review: Steven Universe (2×02) “Open Book”

So here I am, just beginning to review this show, right as we get a break from the heavy stuff. But in order to move forward, I need to glance back at what to make of the past episodes. Steven Universe…

TV Review: Adventure Time (6×31) “Walnuts & Rain”

Adventure Time seems to have been about everything but for a good while now. The old quests inspired by video games and Dungeons & Dragons are so often relegated to throwaway lines and, as with the recently rereleased game The Legend of Zelda:…