EXQUISITE CHAOS! ADULT SWIM’S ‘THE ELEPHANT’ IS A MULTI-CREATOR EXPERIMENTAL NIGHTMARE AND WE’RE STRAPPED IN

 

Adult Swim just dropped the official trailer for their upcoming special, “The Elephant,” and if you were hoping for something coherent and easy to digest, you are watching the wrong network.

This isn’t just a new special; it’s a “mindblowing special made by a remarkable team of creators who didn’t have a clue what the others were crafting.” Yes, you heard that right. The latest Adult Swim event is a collaborative, experimental animated mind-meld where the directors were apparently not allowed to talk to each other. This is peak, glorious, high-concept chaos—the kind of TV that requires a flow chart and a therapist to watch.

The trailer promises a “story told in three parts about finding your place in this cruel world.” But given the production method, we expect these “three parts” to be less like a cohesive narrative arc and more like a fever dream where three strangers were told to paint the same subject while blindfolded.

“The Elephant” is dropping on Friday, December 19th at 11:00 PM, with next-day streaming on HBO Max.