The Custodians

5️⃣⏹️ = MIDDLING!

Barking through time and space, one adventure at a time!

“THE GAME OF DEATH!”

What’s up with the future and all these weird hats and glasses people are wearing in place of using normal technology?

And we have yet another story about the dangers of video games and how they can be used to wipe the minds of children. This could’ve been fine if they hadn’t given us the silly scenes inside the game company with the Custodians (the smirk on that one guy’s face makes me want to punch him; also, he looks like Rivers Cuomo from Weezer).

Now that Forgettable Girl and Annoying Kid are sidelined for a bit and we focus on Villain Moher, Dull Professor, and Bad Starkey, things generally flow a bit better. Annoying Mother gets a chance to show that she is actually a pretty good mother when given the opportunity.

There’s also a pretty basic but interesting alien conquest plot here, along with a cool alien design.

The climax is slow but quite meaningful in many ways.

Gently profound, if a little uneven in places. The moment Thorne temporarily loses control, before the alien menace lets go had the right amount of tension. The inclusion of VR headsets and Zuckerberg style middlemen makes the show quite on the pulse for 2010. This is a proper show.