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The Bluey Method of Reducing Grown-ups to Tears
In its most disarming episodes, child and adult experience blend into something beautiful — and sob-inducing — in under seven minutes.
The tree growing, an older Bluey, Jean-Luc’s reappearance — all of it is legible to kid viewers, and on that level feels like a happy conclusion of a story that otherwise would have remained sadly unresolved. “Onesies,” another regularly named Bluey weeper, is packaged inside a premise in which Bingo puts on a cheetah costume and becomes consumed with the feral spirit of an apex predator. The two sides don’t undermine each other; there’s no easy answer to parental frustration or impatience or sense of loss, but there’s also no moment when the adult problems are given more weight or significance than the silly kid games.
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