WondLa is a new animated sci-fi series that, despite some solid visuals, fails to differentiate itself in a sea of children's programming.
places them in a position many are eager to emulate. Among numerous others jockeying for this position, Skydance Media also clearly wants a slice of that pie, as evidenced by them scooping up Pixar’s key contributor John Lasseter , a girl raised alone in a sterile underground complex that looks lifted from. For the first decade and a half of her life, she’s brought up by Muthr , a maternal robot who tells her bits and pieces about the outside world.
If you’re a sci-fi nerd like myself, you may also be disappointed that this far-flung society feels as flat as these characters. While many entries in the genre bring an obsessive anthropological lens to the proceedings, fleshing out complex cultures and histories, this show fails to accomplish this. I haven’t read’s source material, but the adaptation doesn’t make this space seem particularly lively or “real,” and provides too few moments with the denizens of this empire.
Perhaps the biggest saving grace here though is that the story bounces back a bit in the last act, as it finally conjures the found-family undercurrents it’s been building towards. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but the climactic episode is sound thanks to melancholy revelations and heroic acts that play on Eva’s obsession with finding fellow humans at any cost.
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