(courtesy IMP Awards)
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Among Us follows a premise similar to that of the original video game from 2018. A crew team aboard the spaceship The Skeld discovers there is an alien shapeshifter who plans to cause chaos, sabotage the ship, and kill each member. Thus, the Crewmates must find out which of them is the actual Impostor. Among Us is an animated series created & written by animation filmmaker Owen Dennis, creator of the Galactaron – First Contact & Infinity Train series previously. Based on the 2018 video game of the same name made by Innersloth. Featuring episodes directed by Owen Dennis and Madeline Queripel. It’s made by animation studio Titmouse in association with CBS Studios & CBS Eye Animation Productions. With music composed by Chrome Canyon. Executive produced by Owen Dennis, Forest Willard, Marcus Bromander, Carl Neisser, Chris Prynoski, Shannon Prynosk, Antonio Canobbio, and Ben Kalina. (courtesy First Showing)
I have alas never played the game on which this new animated series is based, but good lord, I wish I was the gaming type because this looks like fun!
Still, thankfully it’s now a streaming series and so my rather amateurish at best gaming skills will not be called upon and I can just enjoy what looks like a very silly, quirky, quip-heavy show.
Plus at just 13-minutes or so an episode, bingeing all the episodes is the stuff of a lazy weekend afternoon, perfect when you want some diversion but don’t want to think too much, you just want to be amused.
And amused, I think, is precisely what I’ll be which isn’t bad with the world not exactly a laughfest of epic proportions, or any really, at the moment.
Among Us streams on Paramount+