Book Three - Cult of the Conductor is the third season of the Cartoon Network series Infinity Train. It premiered on August 13, 2020, on HBO Max.
During one of Apex’s routine scavenging missions Grace and Simon find themselves separated from their group. Deadset as they are on clinging to Apex’s way of life, when they end up meeting Hazel, an optimistic young girl traversing the train with her gorilla friend Tuba, it isn’t long before Grace and Simon begin to realize that there might just be another way to survive and thrive on the Infinity Train that doesn’t revolve around getting over on others.[1]
The season's full title and trailer was revealed on the Infinity Train panel during Comic-Con@Home July 24th, 2020.[2][3]
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Episodes[]
Image | Title | Premiere Date | No. in series | No. in season |
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"The Musical Car" | August 12, 2020 | 21 | 1 | |
Before The Apex can complete a raid, leaders Grace and Simon are separated from the kids under mysterious circumstances. | ||||
"The Jungle Car" | August 13, 2020 | 22 | 2 | |
Grace and Simon look on the bright side and hope that this will be like a mini-vacation from their responsibilities as leaders of The Apex. | ||||
"The Debutante Ball Car" | August 13, 2020 | 23 | 3 | |
The gang's uneasy alliance is tested by a challenge in their first car together: dancing in a high-stakes octopus debutante ball! | ||||
"Le Chat Chalet Car" | August 13, 2020 | 24 | 4 | |
Stuck in a blizzard, the gang seeks shelter in a nearby cabin. But when Simon realizes who's inside, he frantically searches for a way out. | ||||
"The Color Clock Car" | August 13, 2020 | 25 | 5 | |
A giant, color-changing clock creates a shifting-maze puzzle that the gang has to solve before they can leave the car. | ||||
"The Campfire Car" | August 20, 2020 | 26 | 6 | |
The Apex are just a car away! They're almost home! But first they have to make it through a forest full of pinecone camp counselors. | ||||
"The Canyon of the Golden Winged Snakes Car" | August 20, 2020 | 27 | 7 | |
The gang finds themselves in a car full of golden winged snakes, but in that dusty landscape a mystery they're unprepared for awaits them. | ||||
"The Hey Ho Whoa Car" | August 20, 2020 | 28 | 8 | |
In the seemingly innocent Hey Ho Whoa car, a shocking revelation rocks Grace and Simon's world. Will they be able to fix it before The Apex find out? | ||||
"The Origami Car" | August 27, 2020 | 29 | 9 | |
The gang is finally ready to meet The Apex again, but keeping secrets has consequences. | ||||
"The New Apex" | August 27, 2020 | 30 | 10 | |
The gang reorders The Apex, but what will the new order be? |
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Trivia[]
- Following the children's literature trend of the previous two seasons, Book Three takes its story inspiration from J.M Barrie's Peter and Wendy, a novel/play and the more popularized version of the Peter Pan story.
- There are a few Peter Pan-related references as well. Two characters are dressed like a lost boy from the 1991 film Hook, an unofficial sequel to Peter and Wendy, one of them being Rufio who is seen in "The Musical Car" and the other being Thud Butt who appears in "The New Apex".
- Book 3 is widely considered a turning point in Infinity Train for a number of reasons, mainly due to its darker themes: its emotional stakes are significantly higher than in previous seasons, it focuses on characters originally introduced as antagonists, and features multiple onscreen deaths. Critical reviews at the time of its release hailed it as revolutionary in the realm of television animation, firmly demonstrating that Western animation did not always have to be aimed at children.
- Though the show's dark shift this season was somewhat controversial to fans, this was not reflected in the reaction by the executives at WarnerMedia. According to the writing team, the executives were more concerned with the show's emotional elements than to its "darker" aspects. If anything, they were very willing to include "brutal" scenes as long as it satisfied the story's emotional core. This also meant that the most difficult part of pitching the show was explaining the emotional and mental progress of the protagonists. The most common notes for the series scripts were about number progress. Book Three had the least amount of notes regarding number simply because the characters were never concerned with getting their numbers down to zero. [5]
- Owen Dennis revealed in an interview with Cartoon Base that recordings of the Book Three DVD commentaries exists and are being "locked in a vault" as unreleased content. In the same interview Dennis hinted he has said more stuff about potential season concepts in the commentary.[6]
References[]
- ↑ Gizmodo: "Exclusive: Infinity Train's Third Season is Bringing Anarchy."
- ↑ HBO Max and Cartoon Network Studios Infinity Train Comic-Con@Home 2020
- ↑ Web Archive: "First Look at the Infinity Train Book 3 trailer".
- ↑ @isabellaabiera on Instagram.
- ↑ Gallery Nucleus Panel: "what was the most difficult part of pitching the show and was it too dark?" (Timestamp: 1:05:36 - 1:10:32)
- ↑ https://twitter.com/TheCartoonBase/status/1707172945020297328?s=20