Netflix’s Matt Groening Animated Comedy Series ‘Disenchantment’: Everything You Need To Know
Netflix is expanding its animated sphere with a new series by animation masterMatt Groening.
The streaming service has picked upDisenchantment, an adult animated comedy fantasy series by theFuturamaandThe Simpsonscreator. 20 episodes have already been confirmed to be ordered, with a possibility for more.
Groening is behind some of the biggest staples of American animated series, with the wacky working-class comedyThe Simpsonsstill on the air since 1989, andFuturamaairing on-and-off for 14 years. Now, he has big plans for his next animated series, partnering with Netflix to bring his animated fantasy-comedy to life.
Netflix has picked up 20 episodes of Groening’s new series, which follows an unlikely trio of a princess, an elf, and a personal demon in the medieval kingdom of Dreamland, as they go on quests and adventures. It’s another big leap in range for Groening, who has explored everything from American suburbia to futurstic science-fiction with his animated shows.
“Ultimately,” Matt Groening said in a Netflix press release accompanying the news, “Disenchantmentwill be about life and death, love and sex, and how to keep laughing in a world full of suffering and idiots, despite what the elders and wizards and other jerks tell you.”
Here’s the official synopsis forDisenchantmentbelow:
“In Disenchantment, viewers will be whisked away to the crumbling medieval kingdom of Dreamland, where they will follow the misadventures of hard-drinking young princess Bean, her feisty elf companion Elfo, and her personal demon Luci. Along the way, the oddball trio will encounter ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, walruses, and lots of human fools.”
The main characters will be voiced byAbbi JacobsonofBroad City,Nat Faxon,andEric Andre, with additional voices byJohn DiMaggio, Billy West, Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille, David Herman, Matt Berry, Jeny Batten, Rich Fulcher, Noel Fielding,andLucy Montgomery.
Groening will executive produce the series alongside Josh Weinstein. The ULULU Company for Netflix is producing.
Disenchantmentwill join the likes of other Netflix adult animated series like the critically acclaimedBoJack Horseman,and upcoming projects likeAmerica: The Motion Picturestarring Channing Tatum and an R-RatedPower Rangersseries.
Contrary to the usual Netflix model of dropping all its episodes at once,Disenchantmentwill premiere its first 10 episodes in2018, and continue airing 10 episodes at a time.
