Programming on the Adult Swim network is often an acquired taste. The company tends to play to the comedy nerd crowd, investing in absurdity and extremity to reach a cult viewership that enjoys wild visions of silliness and horror. The brand has managed to hit a few mainstream heights during their run ("Aqua Teen Hunger Force," "Robot Chicken," "Rick and Morty"), but nothing perfectly encapsulates the Adult Swim way better than 2014's "Too Many Cooks." The short arrived quietly, only to become a secret handshake offering of insanity from writer/director Casper Kelly, who turned the vanilla charms of network sitcoms into a hellish descent, making a fine mess of parody and genre perversion, crafting an 11-minute-long valentine to weirdness. Kelly returns to oddity in 2022's "Adult Swim Yule Log" (actually titled "The Fireplace" on the movie), which retains the "Too Many Cooks" atmosphere, once again launching sustained strangeness with a large collection of characters, often turning to heavy violence to keep viewers on edge. However, "Adult Swim Yule Log" is not a short, but 92 minutes long, pushing Kelly to maintain oddity for an extended amount of time. The strain of this mission shows, though the core experience of the endeavor remains appreciable, as Kelly is working to make something wholly bizarre, and he's periodically successful when focusing on a growing log-based nightmare. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com