I have to give Sonny Boy credit for becoming so much more than “Lord of the Flies but weirder.” Right now, I feel the best description of it is a (relatively) cohesive animated smorgasbord of philosophical thought experiments presented via deadpan psychedelia. This seventh episode balloons the scale into an incomprehensibly large multiverse—not just a collection of empty alien worlds, but an infinite cascade of societies teeming with small dramas, the rule of law, and myriad absurdities. While I’m going to focus the most on Sonny Boy‘s notion of the absurd in my analysis this time (specifically in relationship to ideas proposed by Albert Camus), that’s only because it’s easier to think about the show with some kind of external footing. There are plenty of other perfectly valid approaches, and that’s what makes it such a fun show to have a conversation about and with.
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