![]() “Wander Over Yonder” debuted alongside a slate of playfully experimental Disney Channel animated series that also included “Gravity Falls” and “Pickle & Peanut.” It was the kind of show which, properly supported, could have aired for years and years. ![]() ![]() Its singular art style, a sort of cuddly 70s psychedelia that wouldn’t be out of place airbrushed on the side of a van, was endlessly charming, as was the swift, super-efficient storytelling. Part of the reason that McCracken was so insistent on a specific amount of episodes is due to his experience on his last original series, Disney’s “Wander Over Yonder.” That series was a brilliant little show (that ingeniously used the 11-minute format to their advantage) that followed space traveler Wander (Jack McBrayer) and his trusty steed Sylvia (April Winchell) as they bop around the cosmos, getting into adventures. And Season 3 felt better as six.’ The last thing we wanted to do was make some filler episodes, which didn’t really move the story forward, and it would just tap the resources of our crew, having to make these episodes that aren’t essential.” Instead, the team “put all our resources to making the essential episodes to really tell that story, and make it work as one long form.” More importantly, McCracken was able to dictate how the story was told over a number of episodes he decided. And we reached a point where, even with season 2, we’re like, ‘We don’t need 10 in Season 2. Could we do less?’ We would come up with the story for the season, and then we would break it up into what we felt were good, solid episodes that had good cliffhanger. “As we were breaking the story, at certain point, myself and my writers and directors went to Netflix and said, ‘We don’t need 30. While three seasons of 10 episodes were ordered by Netflix, that too changed. “I wanted to do something kind of short and sweet.” Short and sweet, just like Kid Cosmic himself. “I didn’t want to do a show that could kind of last forever and make six, seven seasons of it,” McCracken said. It’s perfect.’” McCracken said that Netflix was interested in making a serialized show and that “Kid Cosmic” “had the potential to do that.” And they wanted to cap the number of episodes, something that appealed to McCracken. How does three seasons of 10 episodes each, and serialized 22-minute storytelling sound?’ And I’m like, ‘That’s exactly what I want. I showed it to Netflix and their response was, ‘We love this. “I was fortunate to have an animatic for the first episode. The streaming giant has a reputation, especially amongst animators, for giving the go-ahead for potentially problematic or cumbersome projects that couldn’t be made anywhere else. Together, they discover some “cosmic stones of power,” that give them each a special power, and get into a series of adventures that could comfortably be described as what would happen if “Avengers: Infinity War” was animated in the style of old “Dennis the Menace” comic strips.Įnter: Netflix. Miller), a marooned alien they call Stuck Chuck (Tom Kenny), and a talking, psychic cat named Tunafish (Fred Tatasciore). Eventually, the series would introduce us to the rambunctious orphan Kid Cosmic (Jack Fisher), his hippie grandfather Papa G (Keith Ferguson), teenager Jo (Amanda C. And he had found this object that he assumed was from space, and decided he was destined to be the savior of the universe,” McCracken said. “It really was just this odd kid that lived in this desert community and drove people, local truckers and staff, in this truck stop crazy. The idea for “Kid Cosmic” struck McCracken back in 2009. ![]() With the third and final season now streaming on Netflix, TheWrap spoke with series creator Craig McCracken about where the show came from and ending “Kid Cosmic” and concluding the series its own terms. And while it is sad to see the show go, it ends in a way that is both emotionally satisfying and extremely entertaining (we are forbidden from discussing details). And while it debuted on Netflix almost exactly a year ago, it has already cycled through three seasons and 24 half-hour episodes. Craig McCracken’s “Kid Cosmic” is one of the best animated shows of the past few years, bursting with heart and imagination.
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