The seasons are changing and so is television programming -- at least for series such as animation that have been able to continue production during the lockdown. One case is Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim.
Last week's Sunday night saw the finales of two shows on Adult Swim, Three Busy Debras and Tim Heidecker and Eric Warheim's Beef House. This has paved the way for two new shows to take their time slots, both of which happen to be on the scary side of the genre spectrum.
Following tonight's episode of Rick and Morty is the second season of Vernon Chatman's (South Park) The Shivering Truth. After that fans will see the introduction of a brand new show, JJ Villard's Fairy Tales. We were able to get exclusive interviews with both of the creators, so keep your eyes peeled for those this month!
Below you can find the trailers for both of tonight's episodes of The Shivering Truth and JJ Villard's Fairy Tales, along with the synopses of both the series and episodes. Check them out and let us know what you think in the comments section!
A delicately crafted, darkly surreal anthology comedy. Each episode is a miniature propulsive omnibus cluster bomb of painfully riotous daymares all dripping with the orange goo of dream logic. A series of loosely linked emotional parables about stories within tales that crawled out of the deepest caverns of your unconscious mind and became lovingly animated in breath-slapping stop motion -- in other words, it is the TRUTH (squared).
In the season premiere episode titled, “The Burn Earner Spits,” we use an emotiomoral X-ray device to provide a detailed history of these United States, starting from May of 1951 all the way up until tomorrow at 3:30.
A new, twisted, fun take on the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tales like Cinderella and Snow White. The charm and cuteness of the original stories remain, but now they've been updated and packaged into a ball of raw, visceral, gross weirdness.
The animated quarter-hour series is created, and executive produced by JJ Villard (King Star King) and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. Voice talent this season includes Linda Blair, Warwick Davis, Robert Englund, Corey Feldman, Alan Oppenheimer, Jennifer Tilly, and Villard himself among others.
In the premiere episode titled, “Boypunzel,” a long haired boy is trapped in a tower by a witch.
The Shivering Truth Season 2 premieres tonight at midnight on Adult Swim followed by the series premiere of JJ Villard's Fairy Tales at 12:15.