Television series

Over the Garden Wall

Name: Over the Garden Wall
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Released: 2014
Cast: Elijah Wood, Collin Dean, Melanie Lynskey, Christopher Lloyd

A ten-episode miniseries that plays like a half-remembered fairy tale — each eleven-minute chapter drops brothers Wirt and Greg deeper into a folkloric forest thick with talking animals, ghost stories and old-timey songs. The animation is watercolour-soft, the humour dry, the dread real. It's a children's show that trusts you to sit with sadness. Best watched in one sitting, at dusk, in autumn.

TVMaze rating

8.1

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