Infinity Train
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.