Due to the intervention of a small, shape shifting, green robot (whom BMO dubs Olive), our hero crashes onto a space station called The Drift. “BMO” begins with the titular robot (voiced by Niki Yang) on his way to Mars to begin some sort of terraforming mission.

However, having watched the first episode, I can say that it works. I was skeptical of Adventure Time coming back as a miniseries of four (apparently stand alone) episodes on the brand newfangled HBO Max service. Ending with a satisfying montage set to the ending theme “Come Along With Me” that showed the various characters continuing their own journeys, I felt like the series ended on a high note. The show would finally end in 2018, after eight seasons of princesses, chaos gods, and beach-ball riding horses. It had crossover appeal to adults like Spongebob Squarepants (still on the air, somehow), but with character development and deep world building. It was witty and imaginative like The Misadventures of Flapjack (which ended that same year and had featured the talents of Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward), but was more cute and less grotesque. I started Adventure Time soon after it began, and it was like nothing I’d seen before. Fortunately, Adventure Time turned out to be a massive (and influential) hit, which means I get to write a review of a revival miniseries for it instead of Incredible Crew or something.

At that time, its home channel, Cartoon Network, was in the middle of an ill-advised foray into live action shows, and things were looking grim for cartoon-loving weirdos like me. It’s hard to believe that Adventure Time premiered a decade ago.

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