Over the past 10 years, a new annual tradition has developed for fans of modern American animation.
The 10-episode miniseries originally aired on Cartoon online grid the week of Nov. 3-7, 2014.
The time I was there was this perfect arc.
The Pottsfield harvest festival in ‘Over the Garden Wall’.Cartoon Network
So the series is recreating that.
It seemed symbolically important for the characters journey.
He and his collaborators also sought the right mix of explanations and open-ended mysteries to reward rewatches.
Wirt (Elijah Wood), Beatrice (Melanie Lynskey), and Greg (Collin Dean) in ‘Over the Garden Wall’.Cartoon Network
We definitely wanted a lot of things to be foggy, by the nature of this world.
When I first got auditions for Wirt, they all sounded likeWoody Allenimpressions, McHale says.
She was like, well, Let’s reach out to him!
Wirt (Elijah Wood) in ‘Over the Garden Wall’.Cartoon Network
He was good at making up funny sounds instead of words.
eight times in crazy ways.
Wirt and Gregs relationship is central toOver the Garden Wall.
For one thing, it defines the shows mash-up aesthetic.
We were presenting The Unknown through the lens of Wirt and Greg’s combined experience, McHale says.
So some things manifest as cartoons because Gregs there, and other things manifest as horror because Wirts there.
The only reason that we’re making this is just to say, Thank you.
What a wonderful harvest.
