This show is hauntingly beautiful. I love how creative it is. It learns all the right lessons from Adventure Time without being derivative of it in any way. I hope they make more. The beast is a metaphor for time and age, right?

*Joyful sigh.* “Over the Garden Wall.” I love animation. The way it bends and threatens to transform into different shapes. The distinct art styles and unique interpretations of reality. It allows us to see things reality won’t let us, either because it’s difficult to see or impossible. I love it all. It’s the spooky season, and what better way to start it off than by watching a spooky little animated series? A friend o’ mine told me about “Over the Garden Wall” back in 2019. But here in Australia, it wasn’t available on any streaming services at the time. Well, it’s available now, and I’m pleased to say I loved it. Although it’s not Autumn here in Australia, this show gives you its fair share. Forests, bluebirds, pumpkins. All the strange characters our heroes meet on their journey are as zany as they are weird. It’s a peculiar show, but it feels familiar somehow. The art style evokes old-timey animation; the 20s. The music, with soothing strings and Gregory’s catchy tunes, just sends me back in time. The eyes and some of the character designs remind me of Cuphead. If you can watch the series, I highly recommend it. It’s only 10 episodes, and each episode is around 12 minutes long. It plays well episodically (at first, I watched one each day), but it also plays well while bingeing. I know my score doesn’t show it, but I wouldn’t change anything about this series. I adore it.

I watched this the first time when I was abt 13-14 years old and it was So scary. I had nightmares for a week. I didn’t saw many, like 3 Caus it was always on times when I wasn’t home or up. But after those episodes I didn’t watch it anymore Caus I was scared. Now I’m almost 18 and I’m excited to get back into it. It’s good animated tho

**MY THOUGHTS ON OVER THE GARDEN WALL:** _**-WARNING: Spoilers Below-**_ Over the Garden Wall is a dark yet beautiful tale, I honestly think no matter your age you will enjoy this. If you're a fan of Adventure Time or other big Cartoon Network shows then I feel like you'll enjoy this show a LOT. It has a dark, sad yet beautiful story which makes you smile, laugh and even shed a tear, it's incredible that they managed to put all of this in only 10 episodes. One small issue I had with the show is at times it got a bit slow and the pacing wasn't as good as it could be and it would lose it's "focus" this wasn't remotely major though and that's just me picking on an issue. I really enjoyed the show honestly and I can see a lot of people falling in love with the show. Overall I honestly really enjoyed this, it was a good quick watch that had a beautiful story that kept you thinking. The fact that this came from Cartoon Network absolutely baffles me! **Overall rating:7/10**

Focused, charming and beautifully animated and written.