Showrunner Nate Cash and supervising director Victor Courtright unpack the season premiere, and make the case for producing more animation domestically.

Finn and Jake’s return in Adventure Time: Side Quests was warmly received when the series debuted in June on Hulu and Disney+. Now, the team behind the show is using its second season to make a case for something increasingly uncommon in U.S. television animation: doing more of the animation itself in-house.