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All the while, a Woodsman (Christopher Lloyd) warns them to be careful, as a monstrous figure known as the Beast (Samuel Ramey) stalks the woods and hopes to turn lost souls into Edelwood trees. They find a bluebird named Beatrice (Melanie Lynskey) who promises to help them in their task by taking them to a woman named Adelaide, but they have to travel through the supernatural woods to do so. Over the Garden Wall follows Wirt (Elijah Wood) and Greg (Collin Dean), two half-brothers who get lost in the woods and eagerly hope to return home. All this gives Over the Garden Wall a richer sense of tradition than any of its contemporaries. In fact, Over the Garden Wall draws on classic fairy tales and a lot of early modern storytelling tropes, from its Puritan America-inspired setting to the moral lessons it teaches to the grotesque and frightening villains it sets its heroes against. However, unlike these other shows, Over the Garden Wall is rooted firmly in a children’s story tradition that goes back more than a few decades. Like these other shows, Over the Garden Wall incorporates modern sensibilities into fantasy storytelling, telling tales of childhood empowerment and self-learning that showcase outlandish environments and odd, even grotesque, characters. Patrick McHale’s 2014 miniseries Over the Garden Wall shares many traits with other critically-acclaimed children’s cartoons of its generation, such as Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time and Steven Universe, or the sorely-missed Gravity Falls on Disney XD.