All four seasons of the cosmically mysterious cartoon are on HBO Max now.
The sci-fi/fantasy/mystery cartoon just released its fourth and final season on HBO Max.
These 10 episodes don’t feel particularly final.
Also anecdotally: I keep talking to friends who would loveInfinity Trainwho have never ever heard ofInfinity Train.
Good news, friends!
You have almost seven hours of pure viewing pleasure awaiting you.
Outside is entropy; what’s inside is marvelous.
Tulip has to solve a mystery or two.
There’s a glowing number on her hand, which seems to be counting down.
There’s also a cat named The Cat, voiced by Kate Mulgrew with amoral relish.
“Who is this showfor?”
is not really a question I trouble over much.
Good things are for everyone; bad things are for reminding us what “good” isn’t.
Still,Infinity Traindefinitely falls into a miracle cavern of demographic impossibility.
It evokes a YA sensibility, with young leads who learn helpful lessons on magical journeys.
The main characters' general kindness is moving, and maybe a bittoosweet for viewers over 15.
Yet the steady revelations about the train conjure the serial enigmas ofLostorBattlestar Galactica.
And then holy hell season 3.
I regret not catching it last summer; slot it intomy 2020 TV listin the No.
Everything has become understandable and adorable.
Then the Apex arrives, and the show’s whole moral universe explodes.
She teaches her followers that passengers (humans) are the only true beings onboard the train.
Heavy stuff, butInfinity Trainis too fast-paced for preaching.
And season 4 is… nifty!
This last adventure prequelizes into a first adventure.
Ryan (Sekai Murashige) and Min-Gi (Johnny Young) are two friends living in mid-’80s Canada.
They’re older than past main characters, and their dynamic has the complications of a young lifetime together.
while Ryan keeps begging his old bandmate to join him on the road with zero booked gigs.
I choose to believethere is more ahead.
HBO Max is becoming a legitimate destination for animation.
Each season’s feature-length runtime is a single-night binge.
Dennis iscertainly game for more.
Still, as Kez tells her human pals, “It’s not about the desti-something.
It’s about the whatever.
“OnInfinity Train, the whatever never ends.
The Show: B+
The Third Season: A
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