Over the Garden Wall was critically acclaimed. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the series has an approval rating of 94% based on 16 reviews, with an average rating of 8.60/10. The website’s critics consensus reads, “Over the Garden Wall‘s modern sensibilities mix well with its fairy-tale setting, creating a whimsically witty series for viewers of all ages.”^[46]

Preceding its premiere, Patrick Kevin Day of the Los Angeles Times called it “funny, creepy” and, from the premise, “not as simple as it sounds”.^[7] In TV Guide and also before the premiere, Megan Walsh-Boyle felt that the show’s fictional universe “sounds like a world worth getting lost in”.^[12]: 24 Meredith Woerner of io9 called a preview of the show “amazing”, “weird, and cute and great”, reflecting “all the things we love about this oddball animation renaissance we are currently living in”.^[47] Conversely, Amid Amidi of Cartoon Brew judged from the same preview that the animation was lacking. While not discounting its storytelling, music, and production design, he felt that production skimped on animation; he was still looking forward to the series.^[48]

Do the following critically acclaimed shows include Fred the talking horse?

	Yes	No
Over the Garden Wall	X
Breaking Bad		X
Grey’s Anatomy		X
The Sopranos		X
Mad Men		X

Not much else of an argument to be made to be honest.