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INFINITY TRAIN ANDROID

Joined by a sentient corgi and a spherical robot named One-One - one hemisphere upbeat, the other depressed, like an android yin-yang - she takes an Oz-like journey through the workings of her train and her own roiled emotions.īoth of these protagonists, notably, were introduced as antagonists. In the first season, Tulip (Ashley Johnson), a middle schooler knotted up by her parents’ divorce, runs away and hops what she thinks is an ordinary passenger train. This silly/wise sensibility puts the show smack in between childhood and adulthood, which is exactly where its protagonists are. Up and down, up and down, an endless line seeking balance.

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“Lost” fixated on black-and-white dualist symbols a recurring motif in “Infinity Train,” reflected in the series logo, is the sine wave. Like “Lost,” it’s an adventure story with overtones of a religious parable, with spiritual trials and imagery. (In one, a pine-cone scout leader tells a wide-eyed group of conelets a spooky campfire story about a squirrel: “The squirrel scratched again - ‘ Where are my little seeds?’”)īut it also resembles grown-up series like “The Good Place,” with its thematic emphasis on redemption and amends. Each car’s interior - which might be an Old West desert inhabited by bugs, a giant ball pit or a vast landscape of wedding cakes - poses a challenge that must be solved before the door to the next car opens.Īrtistically and in tone, “Infinity Train,” created by Owen Dennis, has a lot in common with animated series like “Adventure Time,” combining psychedelic panoramas with absurdist throwaway jokes. On one level, the mystical train is like a puzzle, or a complex game. Forget coal or electricity this train runs on personal growth. And there they stay, until they figure out their business. It traps them within its endless chain of cars, each of which contains a vast world. In this fantastical animated anthology, which began on Cartoon Network and whose fourth and final season arrives Thursday on HBO Max, a mysterious locomotive picks up passengers with problems to work through. “Infinity Train,” however, requires a little more work on the part of the passenger. People get ready, there’s a train a-comin’. Whatever the state of public transportation in the real world, pop culture does not lack for metaphorical trains that promise to solve our problems.

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