Infinity Train
Recap
Cartoon Network’s Infinity Train is a ten part series about a young Wisconsin girl, Tulip, with divorced parents and a love of eating onions and computer programming, who finds out she can't go to a game design camp. She ends up running out of her house and finding a train in the woods she hopes will take her to Oshkosh, where the camp is. When she enters the train, she realizes each car has its own strange, unique world within it. She goes through each train car, hoping to eventually find her way off the train. meeting new friends along the way, like a charming half upbeat half pessimistic robot One-one and the King of a kingdom of corgis, Atticus, and trying to escape a sinister force that attempts to destroy the train cars' civilizations and kill Tulip and her friends.
Review
I’ve known about this series ever since I saw the original short. The series is based on Cartoon Network’s YouTube Channel. The second I saw it, I immediately wanted more, as did the rest of the internet. I had very high hopes for this series for a long time, and, when I saw it finally came out, my first instinct was for the series not to be what I had hoped, like many things before that. (I was hyped for months to see DC’s Suicide Squad, and after that disappointment I’ve been afraid to get too hyped for anything) Yet, thankfully, this series was as good as I dreamt it would be.
This is an excellent series. Each episode left me further engrossed, and I kept wanting more and more. Each train car is different and interesting and weird and extremely entertaining. If that were all the series was, her passing through each train car, I’d watch it just for that. Also, the central ideas of the show are really well done. One of these core topics is the divorce of Tulip’s parents. Despite a few lines that come across as a little forced here and there, the series talks about it really well. Even though my parents were never divorced, I do end up feeling for the character and her struggles, and I think it’s unique for a show that’s labelled as a kid’s show to be able to talk about these hard subjects, and dare I say it makes Infinity Train all the better for it. The villain’s conflict is arguably even better then Tulip’s in this regard. Overall, the show has an emotional depth that is hardly seen in Children’s television, and is well-rounded with the show’s witty, clever humor, and also contains elements of horror with several parts of the series being physically frightening.
The show’s voice action is also stellar. After all, Ashley Johnson, known as “Ben 10’s” Gwen Tennyson, “The Last of Us”’ Ellie and “Teen Titan’s” Terra, voices Tulip. The animation is clean, it reaches, though I admit does not exceed, standard, but it doesn’t particularly need to given the story and characters are both so solid. The music is another thing I love, with a cool techno feel, really adding to the atmosphere of the story.
Final Thoughts
Overall, this series lived up to the hype and is definitely worth the watch.
Infinity Train: Season 1 Review
- Writing - 9.3/109.3/10
- Storyline - 9.8/109.8/10
- Acting - 10/1010/10
- Music - 9.5/109.5/10
- Production - 9.5/109.5/10
