On September 19, 2024, Over the Garden Wall was (incorrectly) marked for removal from Hulu. Spooky! The matter appears to have been resolved for now , but it still reminded us all of the ephemerality of streaming media — and not the good, autumnal, leaves changing colors and falling kind of ephemerality. It was a “motivation to start buying physical copies of the things you love” kind of ephemerality.
It turns out that the complete Over the Garden Wall DVD is currently on sale for $10.49 at Barnes & Noble. It comes with all kinds of special features you don’t get on streaming, plus a sense of security that can only come from holding the thing you love in your arms.
Hulu can come take it from my cold, undead, pumpkin hands. This story originally ran in fall 2020. We’re republishing it because it is, once again, fall.
There’s finally a chill in the air, a breeze in one’s step, and a nip in one’s nips. Fall is here, bringing with it the sense memories of walking home from a new grade of school, the crunch of leaves underfoot, the smell of distant bonfires, and staying inside to watch Nora Ephron movies . It’s “ bouquet of newly sharpened pencils ” weather.
Under normal circumstances, it would also be the start of a new fall TV season, although even that might be kind of a quaint notion in the era of streamers thinking, “Let’s drown everyone in a constant spigot of content.” So instead of telling you about the best fall TV to watch this year, I will in.