Keanu Reeves' 4-part fantasy series is a perfect HBO Max binge hiding in plain sight

Sometimes kids crawl through a wardrobe and wind up meeting a talking lion, like in The Chronicles of Narnia . Or maybe there’s an impossible train platform like in Harry Potter . Even a rundown bathhouse can be a world of wonder in the case of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away .

That’s the brilliance of fantasy: it leaves open the possibility that something larger-than-life is lurking just beneath the surface of our waking world. What’s really between those towering glass buildings, beneath grimy subway stations, or maybe even under the floorboards of our own homes?