{"id":104,"date":"2026-01-15T02:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/?p=104"},"modified":"2026-01-15T02:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:38:15","slug":"the-solar-opposites-team-has-a-new-sci-fi-animated-series-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/the-solar-opposites-team-has-a-new-sci-fi-animated-series-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Solar Opposites&#8217; Team Has a New Sci-Fi Animated Series Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SolarOpposites-sidecar-1280x853.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>While <em>Solar Opposites<\/em>\u2018 cancellation was one of the sad pop culture losses of 2025, there\u2019s fresh hope in the hellscape: two of the creative minds behind Hulu\u2019s delightfully crass alien family have a new animated series coming to Amazon Prime Video. It\u2019s called <em>Odd Jobs<\/em> and it looks at the gig economy through a deeply dystopian lens\u2014and given the source, we\u2019re expecting unhinged hilarity galore to ooze out of that concept.<\/p>\n<p>Variety reports the official <em>Odd Jobs<\/em> description is as follows: \u201cThe year is 2127, the world is an extreme late-stage capitalist hellscape. The show follows a reluctant team of gig-workers as they travel around the neo Midwest, doing the weirdest most dangerous tasks the ODD JOBS app demands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to the trade, co-creators Dominic Dierkes and Mike McMahan\u2014both <em>Solar Opposites<\/em> alums; McMahan\u2019s other credits include <em>Star Trek: Lower Decks<\/em> and <em>Rick and Morty<\/em>\u2014elaborated. \u201cWhile wandering through the wilderness, we accidentally stumbled through a portal and found ourselves hundreds of years in the future,\u201d they said. \u201cWe witnessed bizarre and grotesque portents about where humanity is heading. Instead of acting on those warnings, we\u2019re thrilled to turn them into an animated show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Melissa Wolfe, head of animation for Amazon MGM Studios, called <em>Odd Jobs<\/em> \u201csharp, absurd, and laugh-out-loud funny, taking a wildly imaginative look at a future that\u2019s as chaotic as it is entertaining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Yes.<\/em> Sold. We are already 100% on board with this, and we haven\u2019t seen a single frame, know any details about its voice cast, or even have any idea when <em>Odd Jobs<\/em> might be hitting screens. Rest assured we\u2019ll be eagerly keeping track of its progress and updating you as we learn more.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Solar Opposites\u2018 cancellation was one of the sad pop culture losses of 2025, there\u2019s fresh hope in the hellscape: two of the creative minds behind Hulu\u2019s delightfully crass alien family have a new animated series coming to Amazon Prime Video. It\u2019s called Odd Jobs and it looks at the gig economy through a deeply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SolarOpposites-sidecar-1200x675.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}