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From 2015 to 2019, there was this little spring of sitcom sunshine and rainbows called Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which coupled dark themes with optimistic storytelling.
And now, four years after the series ended, the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt team of Robert Carlock, Tina Fey and Sam Means is back with Mulligan, a new animated post-apocalyptic show.
The 20-episode series will be released on Friday, May 12, on Netflix.
Per the show’s official logline, “After Earth is destroyed by an alien attack, a rag-tag band of survivors has to start society over from scratch. It’s an opportunity to learn from humanity’s past mistakes and get things right this time. Or make the same mistakes all over again. Probably the second one.”
Nat Faxon, Chrissy Teigen, Tina, Sam Richardson, Dana Carvey and Phil LaMarr have been confirmed as the main voice cast, with recurring guest stars, including Daniel Radcliffe, Ayo Edebiri, Ronny Chieng and Kevin Michael Richardson.
The rag-tag pack of misfits includes Matty Mulligan (Nat) – a working class everyman from Boston who single handedly saved Earth from the alien invasion, but is now in way over his head as the leader of what’s left of humanity; Lucy Suwan (Chrissy) – a beauty queen who had a whirlwind romance with Matty during the attack, making her the de facto First Lady, despite having just met Matty and having nothing in common; and Dr Farrah Braun (Tina) - a military super-scientist and single mom, who’s still trying to ‘have it all’, but is still being dismissed as ‘just a female scientist’ in a world that really shouldn’t have time to bother with that stuff.
Daniel plays Jeremy Fitzhogg aka ‘King Jeremy’ - the party-boy son of an English lord who was working in the British Embassy when the aliens attacked, but everyone in the USA thinks he’s smart because of his accent. And when Jeremy realises he’s the last surviving British citizen, he declares himself King.
