Review: 'Strange Planet' is a sweet, cheerful examination of humanity through an alien lens
, has been expanded, by Pyle and Dan Harmon, into a television series premiering Wednesday on Apple TV+. Bright, sweet and cheerful, if unusually concerned with mortality, it is, as satire, highly affectionate — keen to human frailty but understanding, hopeful, more engaged with our possibilities than our limitations.
The series centers on a race of vaguely lightbulb-shaped, barely distinguishable blue beings who, for all intents and purposes, are human beings on a planet that, for all intents and purposes, is Earth, its two moons notwithstanding.
Where the comic is highly conceptual, with discrete gags typically delivered in the space of four panels, the series requires something meatier, with more action, identifiable characters and narrative and emotional arcs, which come in longer and shorter varieties. Each of its 10 episodes explores different settings and themes — air travel, sports, fandom, friendship, fitness, quarter-life crisis, children separating from parents, wild versus domesticated animals, love.
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