The words ‘Pixar Original Disney+ Exclusive TV Show’ pop up on your screen, and suddenly your blood pressure spikes. Those industry titans of the early 2000s who seemingly couldn’t help but knock it out of the park have finally kicked the bucket and gone full streamer. ‘It makes sense,’ you tell yourself as you begin to round up your old Pixar merch like Andy at the end of Toy Story 3, ‘all good things must come to an end.’ The Wall-E pop figure your parents got you years ago looks at you, as if pleading that they’re still the same as they once were. Looking away, tears fall onto your cheeks as you drop a fluffy Mike Wazowski action figure into a trash bag, signifying the end of your childhood as you know it. And, scene.

It's a shame to say, but this will be some people’s instinctual gut reaction to ‘Win or Lose’, Pixar’s first foray into the world of TV. That’s par for the course for a studio that is currently weathering the storms of what has been 15 years of pushback following a run of movies no animated studio, American or otherwise, has managed to replicate. Imagine making Toy Story, and then making A Bug's Life, and then making Toy Story 2, and then making Monsters Inc., and then making Finding Nemo, and then making The Incredibles – just writing it out on the page opens your eyes to how much of a miracle it is. Now, people expect that every single time. A small blip like Cars 2 seems comparatively catastrophic until you end up in 2025, where people view the idea of a Pixar TV show as taking one step into an already dug grave.

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