Solar Opposites
2020
Original language: English
- comedy
- animation
- sci-fi & fantasy
The story
A family of aliens from a much better world must take refuge in middle America after the destruction of their planet. Their mission: protect the Pupa, a living super computer that will one day evolve into its true form, consume them and terraform the Earth.
What it’s like
Bright, flat, cartoon colour in a suburban house that looks like a catalogue set: beige kitchens, cul-de-sacs, sun-washed daytime streets, and a sterile lab-like sheen to the alien family's home that gives the whole show a slightly clinical gloss. The animation is simple and deliberately stiff, with rubbery character movement, quick cuts and cheap-looking sci-fi gadgets played straight against ordinary domestic settings. The sound design leans on bouncy synth stings, sitcom-style cues and deadpan laugh-track-free pauses, so jokes land in the gaps. Episodes are short and fast, with absurd cutaways and running gags that stack up quickly. The vibe is cheerfully cynical and oddball: a weird-family comedy about four very different beings trying to be a household while hiding their larger purpose. The intensity is moderate: frequent crude humour, sexual innuendo, cartoon gore and bloody violence played for laughs, and some profanity. Expect mild dread only as comic menace. It suits a lazy evening, a comfort rewatch with friends, or background laughing while doing something else. It is for viewers who like adult animated satire, dry bickering family dynamics, and sci-fi played for absurdist comedy rather than awe.
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