Planet Shlorp was a perfect utopia…until the cancellation hit. At its peak Solar Opposites was the big animated man on the Hulu campus, but now that the streamer is hanging with the really big boys like the Hills and the Planet Express crew, they feel no need for their former friends. The show says toodle-oo this October.
The official description of how this series wraps up is the same one they gave us last summer: “Once their alien diamond making machine gets destroyed, the Solar Opposites must face their greatest challenge yet: living their expensive lives on a budget! When their consumerist habits and expensive hobbies are gone, only their true selves will remain… but will they like who they find? ALSO: The epic story of the people of The Wall has all built to this thrilling and shocking conclusion…”
The big question is if that conclusion is something they were given ample time and notice to craft, or if they had to rush something together. A press quote from earlier this year suggests the latter. “We were starting to write this season when we found out that it was most likely going to be the end,” said executive producer Mike McMahan. “And then we were scrambling around panicking, trying to make them not let it be the end. But just in case, we figured there’s some stuff we have to do with the Wall, there’s the stuff we had to do with the Solars, there’s some really cool stuff coming. So, we do culminate some stuff, we do get some storylines finished, but we leave it open to more adventures too, at the same time.”
The quote has since been updated with a newer statement where they make a different claim. “We fully loaded this season of Solar Opposites with ridiculous alien family antics, a resolution for the nefarious Silvercops, an epic final adventure for the tiny people in The Wall, and a bunch of ROMANTASY®,” they say now. “Solar has always been an experimentation of how deep, weird, loving and funny an adult animated family show can get. This time, our biggest challenge was wrapping up six perfect seasons in a perfect way. Which we did. You’re welcome.” Which statement is the truth? Guess we’ll see what we get.
Solar Opposites features the voices of Dan Stevens as Korvo, Thomas Middleditch as Terry, Mary Mack as Jesse and Sean Giambrone as Yumyulack, alongside Tiffany Haddish, Kieran Culkin, Christina Hendricks, Ken Marino, Alfred Molina, Natalie Morales, Jerry O’Connell and Beck Bennett. The series returns for its final season October 13.
