The Binding of Isaac
If you’ve ever watched an animated series on Adult Swim – namely Super Jail, Metalocalypse, or Rick and Morty – you know that there’s a certain draw to dark and disturbing ideas given shape through moving pictures. Enter The Binding of Isaac, a long-time indie darling about a young boy who must fight his way through the darkness and devilry of his basement in order to escape his murderous mother. Full of depraved and demonic character designs masked in an almost cutesy aesthetic as well as a bevy of different items which change the appearance of Isaac, there’s plenty of potential for how a full animated series could work: It could offer a monster of the week framework with a different completion scenario each time, showing Isaac twisted into a strange new form each time in order to overcome different bosses. It doesn’t even have to be a full-length series either; weekly shorts about Isaac’s misadventures could make for some great bite-sized bits of entertainment, much as a quick round of the game is for regular players.
