But it’s tempting to do so anyway: With its emphasis on familial relationships both healthy and broken, its heady admixture of sci-fi, horror, humorous pop culture references and profound emotion, even its central, ever-looming truth (“Summer ends”), Alex Hirsch’s short-lived beauty summons up thoughts of BoJack Horseman, Bob’s Burgers, Adventure Time, and Rick and Morty, not to mention live-action inspirations such as Twin Peaks, The X-Files, and Lost. The Forces of Evil, has acquitted itself well in the 21st century so far. Placing Gravity Falls in the animation canon doesn’t require drawing comparisons to series outside of Disney, which, from Kim Possible to Phineas and Ferb to Star vs.
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