The adaptation of Canadian Jeff Lemire’s dark comic books makes for lovely escapism
In the normal course of events, I wouldn’t be paying attention to. Too much eye-rolling involved. It arrived recently and my interest was piqued by two things. First, while looking for more information than the summary “endearing family-friendly fable,” I came across a review by a Netflix subscriber saying it was, hands down, the best thing watched all year.
Here, the look of the show, all opulent colours, and its tone, which veers toward magic realism in its treatment of animals, turn it all into a contemporary fable. Gus, who has antlers growing on his head, is drawn out into the world. In fact, it’s deer that draw him out. Eventually he abandons seclusion to find his mother, who might be thousands of miles away. He’s also entering a new world in which these hybrid children like him are being blamed for the virus that brought a world to collapse.
Some elements do border on the silly. There’s a militia group called The Last Men that believes hybrids should all be killed off or tortured in experiments. Their leader is very much a cartoon villain. And, as in any journey-story, characters appear and are left behind before they are fully known.
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