animation
mELtdoWN is an animated show set in a not so far future, where global warming has gone out of control, and ruined most of the world.
An alcoholic polar bear, Gus, finds his home at the North Pole overrun with animals from the melted South Pole. Driven away from his home by invading penguins and tourists, Gus is forced to do something about the situation.
He teams up with Daisy, a social incompetent tree hugger, and together they decide to put an end to global warming. Together they will venture out on a journey and seek out a wide selection of targets they consider to be responsible, such as oil and fast food companies, power plants etc. They meet their goal in every episode, but not in the way they intended to, instead they’ll cause even more damage to the environment, yet still thinking they’ve done great. As if fighting against a cynical world where nobody cares wasn’t challenging enough, they’ll have to fight even harder to stay together.
Their very different personalities, such as him being a carnivore and her being a vegan, will constantly clash and get them into trouble. Last but not least, they have to navigate and succeed in a world none of them understands; Gus, because he isn’t used to being among humans and their way of life, and Daisy is just so annoying that nobody could stand her long enough for her to gain any real knowledge about her fellow humans. The story will be told in retrospective by Gus and Daisy, who are both being interrogated by an unidentified male. In the very last episode it will be revealed that the reason that they are held captive, is because their actions throughout the series has increased global warming so much, that they ended up causing a new ice age.
The animated series is, just as the storyworld it is derived from, meant to entertain, but at the same time help raising awareness of urgent environmental matters without evangelizing.
Instead Meltdown will work with real life problems and threats to the Environment, placing them in its own quirky satirical universe, letting Gus and Daisy try to solve it their way, and thereby, hopefully, point out the absurdity in how our way of life is ruining the world around us. Meltdown isn’t only focusing on environmental matters it also uses its stereotypical characters to comment and reflect on different topics and themes such as feminism, immigration, substance abuse, political correctness, racism etc.
He teams up with Daisy, a social incompetent tree hugger, and together they decide to put an end to global warming. Together they will venture out on a journey and seek out a wide selection of targets they consider to be responsible, such as oil and fast food companies, power plants etc. They meet their goal in every episode, but not in the way they intended to, instead they’ll cause even more damage to the environment, yet still thinking they’ve done great. As if fighting against a cynical world where nobody cares wasn’t challenging enough, they’ll have to fight even harder to stay together.
Their very different personalities, such as him being a carnivore and her being a vegan, will constantly clash and get them into trouble. Last but not least, they have to navigate and succeed in a world none of them understands; Gus, because he isn’t used to being among humans and their way of life, and Daisy is just so annoying that nobody could stand her long enough for her to gain any real knowledge about her fellow humans. The story will be told in retrospective by Gus and Daisy, who are both being interrogated by an unidentified male. In the very last episode it will be revealed that the reason that they are held captive, is because their actions throughout the series has increased global warming so much, that they ended up causing a new ice age.
The animated series is, just as the storyworld it is derived from, meant to entertain, but at the same time help raising awareness of urgent environmental matters without evangelizing.
Instead Meltdown will work with real life problems and threats to the Environment, placing them in its own quirky satirical universe, letting Gus and Daisy try to solve it their way, and thereby, hopefully, point out the absurdity in how our way of life is ruining the world around us. Meltdown isn’t only focusing on environmental matters it also uses its stereotypical characters to comment and reflect on different topics and themes such as feminism, immigration, substance abuse, political correctness, racism etc.