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.

From the very first moment I knew I would enjoy this episode visually, and I did. The story isn't super great but it's pretty good. Nice thrill ride.

A fun tale about listening when someone warns you not to do something.

And I loved the unique animation style.

'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.

All good short stories give you more than your money's worth and this one is no exception. It plays out like a snippet from someone's nightmare that's been transferred to the screen and it's done very nicely indeed. It also made me wonder if the writer had been reading some Stephen King lately. 7.5/10.