Director: Dan Harmon
Adapted from Nathan W. Pyle's webcomic, Strange Planet imagines an alien society whose members speak in oddly formal, literal language while going through everyday routines that feel instantly familiar.
What is Strange Planet about?
The animated series follows a rotating cast of blue-skinned beings as they navigate work, relationships, and small domestic rituals, narrating each moment with a deadpan precision that turns ordinary objects and feelings into something newly strange. Created for television by Dan Harmon, each half-hour episode builds its humor from the gap between the aliens' clinical vocabulary and the recognizably human situations they describe — a birthday party, a breakup, a trip to buy groceries — letting the show comment on daily life without ever breaking its own internal logic.
Cast & crew
Hannah Einbinder and Danny Pudi voice two of the show's central beings, anchoring episodes that shift focus across a wider ensemble. Lori Tan Chinn, Tunde Adebimpe, and Demi Adejuyigbe round out the principal voice cast, each bringing a distinct rhythm to the aliens' formal, roundabout way of speaking.
Context & significance
Strange Planet keeps the visual style of Pyle's original comic — simple pastel figures, minimal backgrounds — while stretching single-panel jokes into full episodes with connected storylines. Episodes run about thirty minutes, closer to a half-hour comedy than a typical animated sketch show, giving individual characters room to recur and develop across the season instead of resetting each time. The show has been noted for translating a very text-based, one-image format into something that still works as animated comedy rather than a string of illustrated captions. Because the format began as single-panel comics, the writers needed new material to fill continuous episodes, and the series leans on recurring supporting aliens and small callbacks to build that continuity.
Where & how to watch
Strange Planet is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, through an interface built in Farsi for viewers watching from outside Iran. All that's needed to stream the series is a free K-Time account; the page itself can be read without one.