“Part of the fun is how confusing it is!” he says. ![]() For that latest Möbius-twisted pretzel of a story, he has done us the service of including diagrams and graphs to explain the timeline. In the first, the playful tot Emily Prime is visited by her adult clone from the future for a brief history of how the world will end in the second, a handful of Emily’s doubles go on a sightseeing tour through such fantastical abstract locales as Triangle Land and the Bog of Reality in the third, a tertiary character from episode one reappears to prevent his own assassination. Any attempt at synopsis makes the summariser sound like a mad scientist, but let’s try nevertheless. ![]() Its three instalments condense a dizzying volume of concepts and information into the length of a sitcom. With the next major phase of his career, the ongoing World of Tomorrow era – launched in 2015 and most recently updated this month – Hertzfeldt has upped the ante in terms of both complexity and the devastating poignancy he has made his trademark.
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