Oct 30, 2018
For Writers + Pop Culture
“Love at first sight is only romantic if it goes both fuCKING WAYS” and other fun lessons we can take from Final Space
Final Space dropped this year and it grew on me like a beautifully animated fungus.
For those not familiar with the show, IMDB describes it as:
“An astronaut named Gary and his planet-destroying sidekick called Mooncake embark on serialized journeys through space in order to unlock the mystery of where the universe actually ends and if it actually does exist.”
I describe it as Invader Zim meets Star Wars with a dash of found-family and a nice helping of pathological sincerity. It’s great. Which of course means I’m now going to critically rip it to pieces. It’s how I show my love.
Here are some lessons — good and bad — that we should all take from Final Space.
SPOILERS AHOY! (Also very slight spoilers for The Haunting of Hill House)
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