My son, who thankfully has excellent taste in animated kids TV shows, has got me into watching this one, following the end of Gravity Falls. I’m really enjoying it. The show just had its second season mid-season finale episode, which was awesome.
How to describe the show? Well, if any of you are Rick and Morty fans, it is kinda sorta like Rick and Morty, the kids version - only, crossed with Sailor Moon, and if R & M can be described as ‘sour vinegar seeped in rotgut booze (and LSD)’, SvFoE is more like ‘sugar mixed with uppers (and LSD)’.
It is certainly an odd choice for the Disney XD Channel, as part of its overall aesthetic appears to be as an express deconstruction of every ‘Disney Princess’ trope.
I’m kinda surprised no-one here has commented on this show, considering how many Steven Universe, Rick and Morty, and Gravity Falls fans there are here. It’s comparable.
Sorry, thought you were talking about Stan Against Evil on IFC.
It’s been on my to see list for awhile. I heard it starts off slow but then gets darker and more interesting when a character named Toffee shows up. Accurate?
Yes - it starts off very saccharine (the art style is deliberately so) and appears sort of random at first. Do not be concerned, it develops an overarching plot, with some very dark elements. In some cases, surprisingly, for what is intended to be a kid’s show on the Disney channel (but them, Gravity Falls was on the same channel).
At first the villains are pretty unthreatening; the leader of the villains - Ludo - seems more of a joke character, completely ineffectual, at it seems that it may settle down into a predictable “Ludo tries to steal Star’s wand and fails each week” kind of show. Then, Toffee shows up, and he is a real menace.
Also, the lines between the heroes and the villains, which appear clear cut at first, become very blurry.
I enjoy it a lot. The mid-season finale episode was the darkest yet, ending on a note that made the cheery outro tune seem brutally ironic; it was very compelling TV.
Some of the early episodes I thought were great (there is one where the heroine goes through the alien version of puberty, and it is both hilarious and horrific); but the show really picks up steam once the overarching plot picks up.
It certainly won’t be to everyone’s taste, but I recommend giving it a shot.