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Cartoon and a comedian: how Adventure Time and Louie are revolutionizing TV storytelling for different generations

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Cartoon and a comedian: how Adventure Time and Louie are revolutionizing TV storytelling for different generations

Crikey’s Laurence Barber talks about how Louie and Adventure Time are “the two current TV series where predicting what will happen in any given episode is nigh impossible and [how each are] committed to breaking the boundaries of conventional storytelling.”

Adventure Time and Louie are, on the surface, vastly different shows; one’s a kaleidoscopic cartoon, the other a Woody Allen-esque sitcom about a middle-aged comedian. So how is it that they have come to be so fundamentally similar in a way that is radically reshaping TV storytelling?

Read the whole article at Crikey.

Did a bit of a double take seeing these together. Interesting read about TV storytelling.