Split (TV series)

Split is an animated fantasy comedy-drama series created by Dana Terrace for Warner Bros. Animation for HBO Max. Starring the voices of Kari Wahkgren, Grey DeLisle, Janice Kaywze, Corey Burton, Candi Milo, and Lara Jill Miller, the series centers on the lives and struggles of the kids of an interdimensional divorced couple.

Loosely inspired by the Cartoon Network pilot Splitting Time, Terrace wanted to create a series thst was "similar in concept, but also very different". In order to accompkish this, she used interdimensional travel instead of time travel, and went for a more dramstic tone, with a "realistic and three-dimensional" focus on the divorce aspect. Terrace consulted with several divorced couples in order to include an accurate potrayal of divorce. Animation services were provided by Rough Draft Korea and Don Yang Animation.

Split was released on HBO Max in January 5, 2031, and was met with pisitive reviews, who lauded its potrayal of divorce, humor, characters, visuals, and animation. The series earned a Peabody Award for Children's & Youth Programming.

Synopsis
Split centers on two kids, Anne and Julie, whose parents just divorced. All normal, right? Well, the thing is, their parents live in two different dimension: Their father on Earth and their mother on a magitech-filled dimension. As the two struggle with having so different separeate lives, their entire family has a toughter job at hand: Coming to terms with the divorce.

Main cast

 * Kari Wahlgren as Anne, Bob and Marie's older sister, and an A-list student eho struggles with her work on both schools and the divorce.
 * Grey DeLisle as Julie, Anne's younger sister, who develops anxiety when their parents divorce.
 * Janice Kawaye as Marie, an energetic but mature young woman from another dimension and Anne and Julie's mother, who struggles with recently becoming a single mother.
 * Corey Burton as Bob, a loving and down-to-earth man from Earth and Anne and Julie's father, who tries go comd to terms with the divorce.
 * Lara Jill Miller as Marylin, a Jewish girl from Earth and Anne's girlfriend, ekth a strong sense of fun, duty, and loyalty,
 * Candi Milo as Elizabeth, a curious toddler from another dimension and Marie's best friend.

Recurrnt cast

 * Bill Farmer as Henry, a no-nonsense but somewhat incompetent teacher from another dimension.
 * Wanda Sykes as Claire, a school director from another dimension.
 * Brenda Song and Phil Lamarr as James and Hailey, two siblings and Anne's best friends on Earth.
 * Jesse Harnell as Runner, a living Magitech taxi.
 * Cree Summer as Linda, Bob's friendly neighboor.
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Charlie: A horse adopted by Bob.
 * Rob Paulsen as Jerome: An angry turtle-like creature who hates being bothered.

Episode list

 * 1) Hard Times Are These: Nearly a month after their parents divorced, Anne and Marie go to their mother's dimension for their bi-semanal two week stay, where their mother tries to help them cope.
 * 2) School Days: The girls go to their first day at the magitech world's school, where they discover that being the half-human daughters of a divorced couple dosen't make things easy.
 * 3) Love is in the Air: Anne takes her girlfriend, Marylin, to a date in the Magitech dimension, but is she ready for such thrills?
 * 4) Lovely Days: Back on Earth, Bob struggles with loneliness after the girls leave, so he buys a pet.

Trivia

 * This is the second time Candi Milo and Jenice Kawyze worked together, after Nickelodeon's My Life as a Teenage Robot.
 * According to creator Dana Terrace, the leads were conceived as having different ages to showcase how kids of different ages are affected by divorce.
 * One of the Earth toys Marie gives to Elizabeth is Harnet from Cartoon Network's Steven Universe.