BMO SNAPS CARTOON NETWORK SERIES

There are characters we rarely glimpse who, if we credit them with life, must be up to something when we aren’t looking at them.

Much is known about the Land of Ooo, but there are stories to be told before and after and in between the stories we’ve already been told.

BMO SNAPS CARTOON NETWORK SERIES

The series fulfilled an arc, but when you have created a believable if bizarre wide world and filled it with memorable characters, the least of whom suggest unexplored dimensions and depth, you still have a lot of room to move. I will tell you now that the magic is intact. (There has been some discussion, among fans and chroniclers, of the character’s gender or lack of one - some use the pronoun “they” - and the series plays around on that point but Niki Yang, who plays BMO, has described him as a little boy, and I’ll use those pronouns here, despite the ambiguity. The first of these, “BMO” - which comes under the umbrella title “Adventure Time: Distant Lands,” referencing the original series’ theme song - stars the adorable, indomitable BMO, pronounced “Beemo.” Last seen narrating the series finale from a time far in the future of the already far-future time in which the show was set, he is the right little sentient robot for the job.

And four new specials have been commissioned, the better to get you to subscribe, my dears. The eight-year run of that lovely cartoon about love and war and play and drudgery and jealousy and generosity and birth and death and everything under the postapocalyptic sun and moon has recently fetched up to stream in its entirety on HBO Max (Cartoon Network is a branch on the same corporate tree).

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