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Over the Garden Wall Is an Uplifting Halloween Story, That Brings Back the Joys of the Old School Animations

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We live at a time, when the animated medium has gained completely new connotations than it ever had before. Today, when someone says "cartoon" or "animated movie", our mental pictures go way beyond classic Disney movies or Hanna-Barbera series. That is because at some time at the break of the millennia, works such as South Park and The Simpsons began to redefine the medium in the public consciousness. Nowadays, the genre has become a frontier for the impossible stories and fantastic ideas that could not make it onto the screens as live-action projects. In a way, that was the purpose of animation from its conception, but as the time went, on, the ideas and stories got crazier and wilder. Creators were also not afraid to explore themes and topics that until then were only portrayed in more serious forms of visual storytelling. Soon, critiques, parodies and fantastic caricatures of our world began to find their rightful place among the many frames of animated media....

10 Episodes of The Twilight Zone That Have Aged Well and Are Worth Watching Even Today

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Next year it will be 60 years since Rod Serling first graced America ' s television screens with his ominous monologues accompanied by an unforgettable score. These 6 decades have been a wonderful opportunity for the mystery-hungry audience to satiate their hunger for the unknown and terrifying just by sitting in front of their television screens. The series could seemingly never get boring, with new and original story freshening it up every week and so, it has eventually found its way into the zeitgeist of the the sixties. The Twilight Zone had remained entertaining for five long years before it aired its last episode. During this time, it has brought us gems such as  Eye of the Beholder or To Serve Man, which were considered peak storytelling at the time and judging by their current ratings, still are. Despite the three attempts at reviving the show by adapting it to the style of its contemporaries, it has never quite reached the greatness of its original r...