"Gravity Falls"

My pessimism was misguided. Not only that, though--this show is so many un-Disney-like adjectives it's hard to keep up, like "vibrant," "subtle", "relatable"--it seems they've finally tried to get inside the teenage psyche. Alex Hirsch has shown me here a reason to believe in Disney Channel again, to take it seriously, and not only that he has a sense of humor too, one that you can never get away from, even in the serious parts. It's also way more cynical than you would expect from this channel, all of which represents an underlying devotion to cataloguing what normal people actually think and do. And yet ultimately it's limited by its own cynicism. Grade: B