Book Two - Cracked Reflection is the second season of the Cartoon Network series Infinity Train. It premiered on January 6, 2020.
MT, a wanted reflection and a passenger named Jesse agree to help each other in exchange for companionship of Alan Dracula the shapeshifting deer. As MT, Jesse, and Alan Dracula travel together while on the run from two mirror police officers, they navigate their own personhood and learn they are not so different from each other.
Similar to how the show's first trailer was revealed, Book Two was formally revealed through Cartoon Network's website on November 22, 2019. The website would lead to a crane game. By leading the deer to the flower and capturing the deer, the new trailer would then play.[1]
On November 25, 2019, Owen Dennis revealed the season's full title in a tweet.
Cast and Crew[]
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DVD[]
- Main article: Infinity Train: Book Two (DVD)
Episodes[]
Image | Title | Original Airdate | No. in series | No. in season |
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"The Black Market Car" | January 1, 2020 (Online) January 6, 2020 (TV) |
11 | 1 | |
Mirror Tulip tries to create a new life for herself outside the Mirror World. | ||||
"The Family Tree Car" | January 6, 2020 | 12 | 2 | |
Mirror Tulip and Jesse climb down a real live family tree. | ||||
"The Map Car" | January 7, 2020 | 13 | 3 | |
Mirror Tulip tries to help Jesse get his number down. | ||||
"The Toad Car" | January 7, 2020 | 14 | 4 | |
Mirror Tulip and Jesse get stuck in a car and face an unusual dilemma. | ||||
"The Parasite Car" | January 8, 2020 | 15 | 5 | |
Mirror Tulip and Jesse gain an unexpected companion. | ||||
"The Lucky Cat Car" | January 8, 2020 | 16 | 6 | |
Mirror Tulip and Jesse enter a carnival car and have to compete for the exit. | ||||
"The Mall Car" | January 9, 2020 | 17 | 7 | |
Someone mysterious invites Jesse and Mirror Tulip into a mall car. | ||||
"The Wasteland" | January 9, 2020 | 18 | 8 | |
Mirror Tulip finds herself in the wasteland outside the train. | ||||
"The Tape Car" | January 10, 2020 | 19 | 9 | |
Mirror Tulip searches for answers. | ||||
"The Number Car" | January 10, 2020 | 20 | 10 | |
Mirror Tulip fights for her right to make her own choices. |
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Trivia[]
- Music: The song used in the trailer is "The Passenger" covered by Siouxsie and the Banshees.
- The season's first trailer was released on November 22, 2019: this was intentional, as it is the same day in-universe that Tulip boarded the Infinity Train.[2]
- Jesse's number on the Book Two poster/cover is different from his starting number in the show by one digit.
- With Book One taking story inspiration from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Book Two is inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio. Jesse even mentioned Pinocchio in one episode.
- Book Two was not part of the original series order: Cartoon Network originally ordered 10 ten-minute episodes, which the writing team fit the entire story they had planned into, only for the studio to reverse course and order an additional 10 for a full order of 20 episodes. Not wanting to push their original story further, the decision was made to turn the series into an anthology, with Book Two focusing on M.T.[3]
- The writing for Book Two was already finished before Book One aired.[4]
- The writing team played around with the idea of making Book Two more serialized than Book One, utilizing more cliffhangers to engage the audience and focusing on the action than the emotion of episode arcs.[5]
Continuity[]
- According to Owen Dennis and Madeline Queripel, this season picks up approximately 2 months after Tulip left the train: by extension, this places it around 5 months before Book 1's epilogue.[6]
References[]
- ↑ Vailskibum94: "Infinity Train SEASON 2 Trailer & New Puzzle Explained".
- ↑ Book 2 trailer set to release on November 22.
- ↑ Book 2 Reddit AMA: "It wasn't. We originally only planned out the first ten episodes as a miniseries, but the executives saw more potential than just those ten episodes. So they gave us 20 to see what we could do with it. It didn't feel natural to have Tulip get back on the train, her story was over, so we decided to try to make the show into an anthology. Now here we are!"
- ↑ Book 2 Reddit AMA: "We had already written all of 2 before season 1 aired. It's not based on money in that way, they had already given us 20 episodes. All shows are a risk, but they put down the money for 20 episodes. This second season is still part of that first order and still part of the gamble."
- ↑ Book 2 DVD Commentary: "The Black Market Car"
- ↑ The amount of time that has passed between this and the previous season.