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> The main reason that I subscribed to it was for its broad range of exclusive animated content, like Close Enough, Final Space, Infinity Train, and Adventure T
by jwells89 3y ago
> The main reason that I subscribed to it was for its broad range of exclusive animated content, like Close Enough, Final Space, Infinity Train, and Adventure Time: Distant Lands. All but one of those have been removed from Max now (I guess for tax writeoffs and avoiding royalties?), and with their recent price increase for a bunch of awful reality TV shows, I'm done.
The depressing US tradition of animation (especially the 2D variety) being treated as third-rate or worse continues.
- tombert 3y agoYeah, it's frustrating, especially since there's a lot of talented animation people that have a lot of interesting stories to tell. I'm not sure how they managed to get it past all the recent cuts, but Adventure Time: Fiona and Cake is genuinely pretty good thus far; clearly there's still a lot of smart and talented people at Cartoon Network and Warner Bros who just want make entertaining media and are being treated as "lesser" because they work with cartoons. I thought Infinity Train, for example, was fantastic, particularly season 2. It was a great show that used animation to showcase a lot of interesting art, while also working in metaphors about the frustrating nature of introspection and themes about individualism and personhood. Now they've replaced it with a TV show about a bunch of ostensibly "hot" mothers hitting on younger guys in a beach house.