HBO Max orders Adventure Time: Bubblegum & Marceline

HBO Max has ordered a 10-episode straight-to-series Adventure Time: Bubblegum & Marceline, with franchise veteran Adam Muto serving as showrunner. The announcement frames a road-trip across the farthest reaches of Ooo where Princess Bubblegum and Marceline will face new dangers and run into familiar faces, and attention has clustered on their intimate dynamic as the story's emotional core. Pride-themed celebration greeted the order alongside pointed concern about whether the show will depict Bubblegum and Marceline visibly as a queer couple given the current political climate. Some viewers praised Muto's continuity from Fionna & Cake and Distant Lands while others posted a profanity-laced critique aimed at Bubblegum's past choices with Finn.