The Tall Grass

While not having the most crazy plot or anything, this rather short episode has a beautiful (!) style of animation and a great, very intense atmosphere.

This was easily the best episode of season 2 for me, but that was never going to be difficult as the other episodes were all pretty poor.

The animation was really nice and the story fitted into the short story format. It wasn't scary but the horror element remind me abit of Lovecraft. Worth a watch.

When the steam of modernity stops, the old world creeps back upon us in all its superstitious horror.

'The Tall Grass (2021)' focuses on a man who becomes entranced by otherworldly lights as he waits for a train to get back in working order. The piece has an atmospheric presentation, with a painterly graphical style that almost emulates something like 'Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018)' (but with less chaotic energy). It's initially a slow burn, as our hero makes his way through the eponymous vegetation to find those alluring lights, but it soon picks up the pace for its action-oriented finale. It's rather suspenseful, if not scary, and it works well for what it is. It's enjoyable pretty much all the way through. That is until its exposition dump of an ending, which does nothing but take all the steam out of the affair. It's too late to be learning the sort of stuff it covers, as the thing's one-and-done story is essentially over already, and much of it doesn't make sense anyway so it would have been better to keep those elements ambiguous. Still, it doesn't ruin the rest of the affair, which is typically an effective suspense piece. 7/10.

Loved the design in this episode a lot like in the tall grass which is a movie on Netflix based of a Steven king book.