Strange Planet Review: A Sweet If Insubstantial Adaptation
Strange Planet occasionally struggles to turn pithy four-panel comic observations into full episodes, but its heart is in the right place
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Strange Planet occasionally struggles to turn pithy four-panel comic observations into full episodes, but its heart is in the right place
Apple TV+In only four years, writer and cartoonist Nathan W. Pyle’s Strange Planet webcomics have become a beloved staple of internet meme virality. Since 2019, Pyle’s drawings of little blue aliens—who experience the same uniquely human phenomena that we do, but express their feelings about them in a hyper-literal manner—have garnered 6.6 million Instagram followers and resulted in two bestselling compilation books. Like most things able to achieve this level of instant, inescapable popularity
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