‘Fionna and Cake’ Review: Better Than an ‘Adventure Time’ Reboot

C’MON, GRAB YOUR FRIENDS!

The fan-favorite, gender-swapped characters are starring in their own show, five years after the Cartoon Network classic ended. But it’s much more than the same ol’ thing.

Fionna high-fives Cake in a still from their new show.
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When Cartoon Network’s animated series Adventure Time premiered in 2010, it was destined to become a hit. The show arrived at the perfect time, when its bite-size doses of quirky humor, colorful characters with strange voices and magical abilities, and shades of queerness embedded into its characters’ backstories matched a...

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