Infinity Train
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Our Review
The best animated anthology ever made, cruelly beheaded by Warner Bros. Each season (a “Book”) follows new passengers trapped on an endless train whose cars each contain a world, a Corgi kingdom, a mirror universe, a mall ruled by a cat, solving puzzles to work through their trauma and earn their exit. It’s a therapy allegory with infinite settings, and it’s brilliant.
Book 1 (Tulip and her broken robot companions) is a perfect adventure story; Book 2 (MT, a reflection who wants to exist) deepens the mythology into a story about agency and personhood; Book 3 (Grace and Simon, the cult kids who hunt passengers for fun) is the show’s dark masterpiece, a two hander about two children whose ideology eats one of them alive; Book 4 closes the train with a story about creative partnership and creative failure. The cancellation after four books, with creator Owen Dennis planning eight, is one of animation’s great injustices.
Verdict: Watch it. Every book is a gem; Book 3 is one of the best animated stories of the century.
