The DVD will not only include all ten 11-minute episodes of the series, but these special (previously unannounced) features: Brown, Tracy (May 13, 2015). "Exclusive: Pat McHale announces 'Over the Garden Wall' comic book series". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved January 5, 2016. Friedlander, Whitney (September 10, 2015). "Taylor Swift, Jimmy Fallon Among Juried Emmy Award Winners". Variety . Retrieved July 8, 2022.

The series follows two half-brothers, Wirt and Greg (voiced by Elijah Wood and Collin Dean respectively), who become lost in a strange forest called the Unknown. To find their way home, the two must travel across the seemingly supernatural forest with the occasional help of the wandering, mysterious and elderly Woodsman ( Christopher Lloyd) and Beatrice ( Melanie Lynskey), an irritable bluebird who travels with the boys to find a woman called Adelaide, who can supposedly undo the curse on Beatrice and her family and show the half-brothers the way home. [5]Ottawa International Animation Festival - Past Festivals". Canadian Film Institute . Retrieved February 13, 2020.

Award Winning Films Announced". Santa Barbara International Film Festival. February 9, 2014. Archived from the original on October 16, 2014 . Retrieved October 11, 2014. a b "Friday Final Nationals: CBS, ABC Share Night's Top Honors". TV Media Insights. November 10, 2014. Archived from the original on November 21, 2014 . Retrieved November 13, 2014.Crist, Allison; Nordyke, Kimberly (July 31, 2016). "Teen Choice Awards: Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on April 18, 2022 . Retrieved September 14, 2022. Woerner, Meredith (October 13, 2014). " Over the Garden Wall Preview Is Crushingly Charming and Batshit Insane". io9. Gawker Media. Archived from the original on October 15, 2014 . Retrieved November 8, 2014. Over the Garden Wall: Posters, Pins + "For Sara" Cassette!". Mondo. September 14, 2017 . Retrieved November 4, 2019. The series was very well received by television critics, who praised its atmosphere and characters. In 2015, the series won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. A one-shot comic book adaptation penned by McHale has been produced, with four further issues commissioned. This was later expanded into an ongoing comic series that ran for 20 issues and continued in a series of graphic novels and comic book miniseries.

After explaining this to everyone in the clearing, Wirt frees Greg and asks Beatrice to come with them. She declines, wanting to return home and admit to her family she is responsible for their curse. Wirt gives Beatrice Adelaide's magic scissors, sheepishly admitting he kept them from her out of spite. They head off as the Woodsman, mortified to learn that Edelwood trees grew from the bodies of the lost and that he had never been keeping his daughter alive, resists the Beast's lies and extinguishes the lantern, ending the Beast's life. After Wirt and Beatrice say their goodbyes, Wirt wakes up under the pond and pulls Greg and his frog to the surface, passing out as the police and his friends show up. The brothers are taken by ambulance to the hospital. Wirt wakes up next to Greg, Sara, and her friends. Sara tells Wirt that she had not listened to the tape yet, as she does not own a cassette player. Wirt offers for her to listen to it at his house, which she accepts. Greg starts telling everyone about the events they had experienced, and his frog's stomach glows with the magic bell still inside.

McLean, Thomas J. (September 14, 2014). "Rising Stars of Animation". Animation Magazine: 28–31. Archived from the original on October 7, 2014. Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times wrote that it was "a little too folksy and fairy story" at times, but that its "contemporary strangeness wins out", and concluded that "it is throughout something to behold". [51] Lloyd later wrote that it evoked "a kind of artisanal quality", both in its design and setting, and though the writing felt "a little too intent on its own folksiness", it became more enjoyable throughout. [52] In The New York Times, Mike Hale also felt the writing was sometimes weak and the stories "perilously thin", but concluded that McHale developed an environment worth visiting. [53]