Skeleton Crew - A Review
It's been out on Disney+ for a little while, now, so it's time for me to finally weigh in (now that I've seen the first two episodes). Clearly, Skeleton Crew is aimed at a youth audience. Kids are the main protagonists, hailing from a planet which seems almost too much like American suburbia for its own good. The street lamps look rather like American street lamps. The buildings look rather like those of any modern urban city. There are trams and cars - all of which run on slotted tracks - as well as speeder bikes, which seem to be exclusively ridden by the rebellious sort who refuse to conform to things like tracks on roads. The only thing that makes it look a little less Americana and a little more alien-world is the school classmates - half of which seem to be some weird sort of alien. For example, Wim, the main child-protagonist, has a best friend named Neel who is an oddly Dumbo-headed-like creature. The authority figures, from police, to firefighters, to teachers, are...