8/14/2023 0 Comments Alien news desk castSyfy kept it relatively quiet regarding what should be called one of their surprise milestone hits in the adult animation sphere to begin the year, and whatever press it had was through the SNL connection back in November 2018. Alien News Desk Season 2 Release Date: When will it premiere? As the critical consensus and fans have agreed, these jokes do land well – making the show an overall powerful package with immense potentials. The show structurally resembles a late night news show as well, and the cusp of its content then relies on how it sets up and executes each joke, each of which is presented in the garb of news clusters. The alien perspective, while it is the launching pad for any number of joke setups, also acts as the perfect frame to satirize human folly. It is a show about two extraterrestrial beings who occupy a late night newsroom and discuss various goings-on about the earth and humankind, the oh-so-interesting species. Alien News Desk Plot: What is it about?Īlien News Desk is pretty straightforward as long as nomenclature is considered – you get exactly what you read. Will Forte, the very same mind behind The Last Man on Earth, plays Drexx Drudlarr, while Super Mansion-starrer Heidi Gardner fills in as Tuva van Void. The two hosts Drexx and Tuva are played by their original voice talents, likewise. The show, unsurprisingly, has its cast consist almost exclusively of SNL members both on and off-screen. The show itself has a number of SNL execs working behind the camera, including Lorne Michael, and producer Erik Kenward. The format of the show was first a running sketch on Saturday Night Live (this is also not even remotely the first time that a full-fledged show has developed out of placeholder SNL tryouts), which Syfy deemed would feel at home given their show-reel agenda. That said, the show is not a work of original innovation, but rather the extension of an idea with a strong Saturday Night Live pedigree. Admittedly, Austin Reading and Chris Prynoski’s work under the supervision of Lorne Michael himself does not match up to the legendary incisive satire of South Park or the early Simpsons seasons, yet it is still probably one of the biggest and brightest ‘silly’ shows of the year – one that knocks its implicit satire out of the ballpark. The fact that it so conveniently places itself under the category of ‘adult animation show’ only heightens this strength. ‘Alien News Desk’, even though it sells itself as a lighthearted detour from sincere journalism – ‘silly’ to put it in Monty Python-speak – becomes a parody of this very aspect of modern TV media.
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