Plot: Fionna and Cake try to avoid wasting the Candy Spot from being demolished whereas trying to find a remedy to help their fallen good friend, Finn.
Overview: I hope you’re down for some universe-hopping, buddies, as a result of the sophomore season of Fionna & Cake straddles Fionna-world and the Land of Ooo like a gymnast stretching earlier than conquering a pommel horse. Gary Prince is about to understand his dream of opening the Candy Spot, a bakery crammed with confectionery delights, however provided that Fionna and her buddies can lower the ribbon in time for the Spot’s grand opening. Sadly, Queenie, Fionna’s sworn enemy, owns the land the Candy Spot is constructed upon and vows to do every part inside her energy to maintain Gary’s dream from coming true.
In the meantime, Huntress Wizard goes in the hunt for a remedy after Finn turns into poisoned by the Coronary heart of the Tree Forrest within the Wizard Cave. The hunt takes Huntress Wizard on a multiversal journey as she hops between Fionna-world, the Land of Ooo, and extra for a treatment. Finn’s situation creates a way of urgency all through the season, with everybody from Princess Bubblegum, Marceline, and Simon struggling to maintain Finn alive till Huntress Wizard can return from her expedition with restorative medication or magics. Is that this beginning to sound convoluted? I’ll admit there are loads of spinning plates in Fionna & Cake Season 2, creating an thrilling however uneven environment of seriousness and silliness as we encounter life-threatening sicknesses, relationship drama, friendship squabbles, and rites of passage.
Visually, Fionna & Cake Season 2 is a deal with. Irrespective of the place you might be, the environments are ultra-colorful, teeming with weird residents, and crammed with secrets and techniques to find. The season’s drama additionally introduces an surprising maturity to the intricate internet of plots. Whether or not Huntress Wizard is risking life and limb to avoid wasting her good friend Finn, Fionna is attempting to get her act collectively whereas not letting her buddies down, Cake is navigating a possible relationship with the silent Lord Monochromicorn, or Marshall Lee desperately makes an attempt to come back to phrases along with his familial bonds, there’s at all times one thing to pierce the ludacrisness and tug in your coronary heart strings.
The Fionna and Cake sequence locations itself in an attention-grabbing place. Whereas the unique Journey Time sequence thrived on character improvement, zany sight gags, and wild fan theories in regards to the Land of Ooo (is it a post-apocalyptic Candyland?), Fionna & Cake takes a extra mature, considerably depressed worldview. Fionna and Cake is a present for adults who grew up watching Journey Time, and finally got here to learn the way harsh the world really is. Whereas Finn and Jake battled fiendish kings and different fantasy-derived villains for many of their adventures, Fionna and Cake battle eviction, overdue payments, issues of the guts, and life-threatening sicknesses as Father Time sinks his fangs into their destiny. It’s a stark contract to say the least. These mature parts made for an attention-grabbing watch as I discovered components of my very own life mirrored in Fionna’s on a regular basis trials and tribulations. In that approach, and extra, Fionna & Cake is one thing particular, although you’d greatest pray you possibly can comply with the various interlocking plotlines by means of an odd maze of overcoming self-doubt and multiversal insanity.
HBO has solely launched seven of the ten episodes for the season on the time of this overview. I hesitate to attain the season at a seven once I really feel that unreleased episodes may push it larger. Very like the unique Journey Time, Fionna & Cake is a uncommon gem that doesn’t come alongside in animation fairly often. Sure, we get loads of grownup animated wackiness from one sequence or one other. Nonetheless, few introduce the heady, reflective parts of Fionna & Cake, a present that faucets into trendy woe, slavish duty, and interpersonal stife in contrast to a lot else on supply. If Fionna & Cake may get out from underneath its personal weight every so often, it might be near perfection. Whereas I battle to attain the present with out seeing the whole season, the spinning plates proceed to revolve inside my head as I’m wondering the way it will all finish.
