Turn on your TV and surf the stuff meant for kids. I dare you.
You’ll likely find a surfeit of fast action and fart jokes. And that’s what makes Esme & Roy so unusual.
The new show, about an unlikely duo who babysit monsters, is Sesame Workshop’s first animated children’s program in more than a decade, and it deftly combines the Workshop’s parallel passions — for learning and play. In fact, Esme & Roy is dedicated to an idea that can feel radical these days:
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