They negotiate with blank-faced (and terrifying) pumpkin people of Pottersfield, they rally Beatrix Potter-inspired students to save a school house, they sneak through a ferry of well-to-do frogs, and even seek a blessing in a celestial city inspired by 1930s Silly Symphonies. As the trio wanders closer and closer to Adelaide, each location presents new characters and unique challenges. With a destination charted, the show unfolds episodically.
Wirt and Greg quickly meet Beatrice, a guileful bluebird that convinces them to seek Adelaide of the Pasture, the lady of the woods and a potential key to find their way home. As the show begins, the narrator tells us what kind of forest they’ve stumbled upon: the woods of the Unknown, a mysterious place “lost in the clouded annals of history…where long-forgotten stories are revealed to those who travel through the wood.” If you set the Americana fairy tale of Big Fish and the absurd humor of Adventure Time inside the Hundred Acre Woods, you might get Over The Garden Wall, an animated miniseries from Cartoon Network about Wirt and Greg, two lost brothers lost in a forest looking for their home.