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Despite the fact we were execited to see a new short film featuring elves Lanny and Wayne, we found this not just disappointing, but inferior in several ways.

The animation feels "off", looking cheaper and making the characters look less like their original selves.

The storyline, telling lies and keeping secrets, tries to segue into a parable about friendship with little success.

And...we have Disney's now consistent protocol to insert gender identity issues into kids programming where they don't belong.

So, in a nutshell, poor visually, disappointing story, and inappropriate.

Those are three things Disney used to not have trouble with. Sadly, those days are over.

As happens with many streaming shows, and stuff written by Rian Johnson, the quality got shaky the further it went along.

And didn't improve with the last two episodes.

What started as an updated Colombo, with grit and real stakes, turned into a lot of camp and shenanigans that, while not hard to watch, wasn't excellent.

Had the series not attracted lots of strong acting talent the stories would have appeared as bare and predictable as they truly were.

Don't get me wrong, there were good episodes (3?) in season two (apparently the last season, at least with Lyonne in the lead role). Just not many.

It'll be interesting to see whether the Peter Dinklage led recast of the series finds a home.