With so much competition on the cable dial, a TV show would have to be insane to hide its intelligence. But that’s exactly what Steven Universe has done. The Cartoon Network show, from former Adventure Time storyboard artist and writer Rebecca Sugar, appears to focus simply on a young boy (the titular Steven Universe) and his adoptive monster-fighting alien family the Crystal Gems—but it’s one of the stealthiest, smartest, and most beautiful things on the air.
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