Have to check this out one of these days!
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1. Adventure Time
\nYes, a children\u2019s cartoon about a human boy and his talking dog is the best show on TV. I\u2019ll try to explain.
\nAdventure Time has been on the air essentially nonstop since its Cartoon Network premiere in 2010 (though technically, season five began a few weeks ago). On paper, the show might sound indistinguishable from any other kid\u2019s show \u2013 each week we follow the ramshackle adventures of Finn the Human and Jake the Dog, two best buds who travel the magical Land of Ooo, a storybook world populated by characters like Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, and Cinnamon Bun (who is, you guessed it, a talking cinnamon bun). Stylistically, though, the show is like nothing you\u2019ve ever seen before \u2013 a caffeinated mixtape of post-Sega Genesis anime, autotune soundtrack, the visuals of Milton Bradley\u2019s Candy Land as re-imagined by David Lynch, and a big, huge, weird, pubescent heart.
\nI could go on and on about \u201cI Remember You\u201d, the best 11-minutes of television I saw this year \u2013 a devastating parable about coping with an aging loved one\u2019s dementia. Or \u201cSons of Mars,\u201d a trippy epic that posits Abraham Lincoln as a Christ-like deity, and ends with a tiny lion-unicorn hybrid being freed from a glass bottle and flying off into the sky screaming, \u201cMy new prison is shame!\u201d Or the fact that repeat viewers will come to realize that the magical Land of Ooo is actually a future version of Earth, ravaged from nuclear war. Or the terrifying \u201cKing Worm.\u201d Or the thinly-veiled masturbation metaphor of \u201cAll the Little People.\u201d Or lines of dialogue that I haven\u2019t been able to shake from my head since I first heard them (\u201cThis bear is tops blooby,\u201d \u201cIn the tree, part of the tree,\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know if my little boy heart can take it.\u201d)
\nBut this is all stuff better experienced that explained, I promise. I don\u2019t care how old you are, Adventure Time will make you remember what an awesome, terrifying sugar-rush it is to be young.
\nvia The Ten Best TV Shows of 2012 | Filmmaker Magazine<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have to check this out one of these days! 1. Adventure Time Yes, a children\u2019s cartoon about a human boy and his talking dog is the best show on TV. I\u2019ll try to explain. Adventure Time has been on the air essentially nonstop since its Cartoon Network premiere in 2010 (though technically, season five … <\/p>\n