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COCOMELON LANE: Season 5

“An Unworthy Alternative to BLUEY”

Family Content: -1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

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What You Need To Know:

Season Five of COCOMELON LANE, an animated program on Netflix, follows a group of pre-school children who go on exciting field trips. They visit an airport, make pancakes for first responders, visit the zoo, help out at a recycling center, pick apples, and plant baby trees. Before the field trips, JJ and his pals envision themselves wielding 3D cardboard models with crayon-colored textures. The children sing catchy songs to remember what the adults are teaching them in the field trips. 

 Season Five of COCOMELON LANE is entertaining, but it’s designed mostly for pre-school children. The episodes have a strong bias toward teamwork, curiosity and getting outside one’s comfort zone. The program’s strongest aspect is the “imagination scenes.” These visuals perfectly capture a “childhood imagination” vibe. However, the vibrant and colorful animation isn’t enough to mask the program’s strong environmental themes. Also, the introductory credits show a same-sex male couple, but the men don’t appear in any Season Five episodes. Ultimately, COCOMELON LANE fails to engage young viewers who are above pre-school age. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children. 

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

  Strong mixed pagan worldview combines moral elements with humanist, environmentalist content where pre-school children take field trips to learn about the world around them, as questions, work together, be patient, use their imaginations for problem solving, visit a recycling center, plant baby trees, and display a strong respect toward their parents and other authority figures, plus a homosexual male couple is briefly shown during the introductory credits, but they don’t appear in any Season Five episodes;

Foul Language:

  No foul language;

Violence:

  No violence;

Sex:

  No sex;

Nudity:

  No Nudity;

Alcohol Use:

  No alcohol use;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

  No smoking or drugs use;

Miscellaneous Immorality:

  One girl expresses fears in Episode 5.3 about not getting to spend enough time with a giraffe at the zoo, but she is taught to patiently wait her turn to feed and touch the giraffe a second time. 

 

 

More Detail:

COCOMELON LANE is an animated pre-school series on Netflix based on the COCOMELON YouTube series. The program is a light musical adventure about a group of pre-school students as they navigate the modern world with boundless imagination. Season Five consists of four episodes with two smaller segments where JJ and his classmates go on exciting field trips around the city. However, these challenging new experiences begin to overwhelm their developing minds. Can they push through it all? 

 In each episode of COCOMELON LANE, JJ and his pals play “imagination games” where they act out various professions. The group is then summoned to a place around the city of Cocomelon Lane. The children try to perform an activity like baking or apple picking, but get flustered with the job. A teacher or a parental figure helps the kids process this newfound emotion. The children overcome their frustration through the power of catchy music. Finally, they learn a valuable lesson at the end. 

 Season Five of COCOMELON LANE is entertaining, but it’s designed mostly for pre-school children. The series perhaps can be described best as a modern take of DORA THE EXPLORER. Both shows focus on young children venturing out of their comfort zone, using their imaginations, and overcoming the uncertainty of trying new things. Thefour episodes consist of eight small sections where JJ and his friends take a bus to do such things as visit an airport, make pancakes for first responders, visit the zoo, help out at a recycling venter, pick apples, and plant baby trees. The COCOMELON LANE episodes stress catchy songs and the power of imagination and teamwork. 

 In terms of production values, COCOMELON LANE is vibrant and colorful. The animation quality is simple but good. It never gets ambitious with its camera angles or lighting, but it is a pleasant looking series in its own right. The program’s strongest aspect is the “imagination scenes.” JJ and his pals envision themselves wielding 3D cardboard models with crayon-colored textures. These visuals perfectly capture a “childhood imagination” vibe. It’s easily the best part in the entire COCOMELON franchise. 

 COCOMELON LANE has a strong humanistic moral worldview. Season Five focuses on the children helping their local community, processing out their frustrations, and working together as a unit. There is no mention of God or Christianity, but the pre-school characters respect their fathers and mothers. Moreover, the children focus on sharpening their problem-solving skills and using their imagination. COCOMELON LANE seems like a safe bet for sensitive children, but Season Five has a few questionable elements. 

 The intro to each episode has a same-sex couple (two fathers holding hands with one another), but they don’t appear in any Season Five episodes. The fifth season has a strong bias towards environmentalism and helping animals. In two episodes, JJ’s group learns to care for abandoned puppies and giraffes at a zoo. The team later volunteers at a recycling plant and harvesting apples from an orchard. Season Five is completely devoid of violence, foul language and lewd content. 

 That said, COCOMELON LANE is an inferior alternative to BLUEY on Disney+. Both programs focus on pre-school children who experience the world through “imagination games.” However, there’s one crucial difference: BLUEY successfully appeals to both children and adult viewers. BLUEY teaches the whole family to work together and then some. It’s equally stimulating not only for children, but also for their parents. COCOMELON LANE is made specifically for small children. It does not invite their parents to actively engage with the lessons. If you want a quality series with deeper Christian values, BLUEY is the superior option.