Dead End: Paranormal Park
Netflix’s adaptation of the supernatural/slice of life Hamish Steele comic DeadEndia provided us a delightful yarn of found families, kooky horror, and a lot of laughs. But it excelled in its queer heart, centered around its protagonist Barney has he navigates the world as a queer trans teenager–giving equal weight to his struggles finding himself thrust into a world of magic, mystery, and demons as it did to him dealing with his family’s transphobia. Its deft approach to both makes Dead End an animated show unlike anything we’ve see on TV in a while, and an important one for queer youth given the awful year trans folks in the real world have had being persecuted just for existing.
