Maya and the Three

[psocoptera]

Maya and the Three, nine-episode animated fantasy series from the same director as Book of Life. I liked it! Really cool character and setting designs inspired by indigenous Mesoamerican and South American art, well-choreographed exciting fights and action sequences, voice acting that gave the characters some real character, and writing more interesting than many kids' shows. Had a terrible case of "men are built like houses, women are built like twigs" syndrome, but clearly Western animation has just decided that humans are crazy sexually dimorphic like that, and we're not going to get over it until someone does something stunning and really different, stylistically, and everyone decides to imitate that. (Apparently little girls are going nuts for Luisa merchandise from Encanto? Maybe that will help?) Anyways, it was particularly annoying in this case because [spoilers] the mom is pregnant in the last few episodes, and is still tiny compared with the dad, and, like, fuck you, when I was pregnant I shook the fucking earth when I walked (and it was *awesome*), if there's any woman who should get to be Visibly Large Onscreen it's a late-term pregnant lady.

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[ruthling]

I tried that, and wow did I bounce hard. Glad it worked for you.

[psocoptera]

Is it the thing I would most want to watch out of the world of adult television? No. But was it way better than like four other kids' shows Q has been watching recently? Definitely. At risk of making assumptions, I suspect there may be less truly terrible children's television in your life. (I mean, honestly, I *hope* there's less terrible children's television in your life, that seems like something you should get to avoid...)