The very funny and talented Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade have worked together a number of times over the last 20 years, including on The IT Crowd and Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. They’re reuniting, in voice at least, for a new animated series, Krapopolis, that premieres September 24 on Fox / Hulu. The series was created by Dan Harmon, who gave us Rick & Morty and Community, and also features the voice talents of Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso), Duncan Trussell (The Midnight Gospell), and Pam Murphy, with appearances by Daveed Diggs, Joel McHale, Ben Stiller, Will Forte, Annie Murphy, Zach Woods, Zosia Mamet, Dove Cameron, Will Forte, Jane Lynch, Stephanie Beatriz, Ben Stiller and more. Here’s the synopsis:
Set in mythical Ancient Greece, the series centers on a flawed family of humans, gods and monsters that tries to run one of the world’s first cities without killing each other. Tyrannis, the mortal son of a goddess, is the benevolent king of Krapopolis and is trying to survive in a city that lives up to its name. Deliria is Tyrannis’ mother, goddess of self-destruction and questionable choices. Within her extended Olympian family — forged in patricide and infidelity — she’s known as the trashy one. Shlub, Tyrannis’ father, is oversexed and underemployed and claims to be an artist and has literally never paid for anything, in any sense of the word, for his entire life. Stupendous is Tyrannis’ half-sister, daughter of Deliria and a cyclops. Hippocampus is Tyrannis’ half-brother, the offspring of Shlub and a mermaid, and, obviously, a hot mess, biologically speaking.
You can watch the official Krapopolis trailer below.
Richard Ayoade is also in Wes Andersons’ new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar that is also out in September.
