A singing orange unicorn holds an entire cast hostage inside a warped television-show world in Buddy, a 2026 comedy from director Casper Kelly.
What is Buddy about?
The premise sounds like a children's show gone wrong, and that is exactly the joke: a magical, brightly colored unicorn who performs songs for the camera starts to unravel, and as he does, the people trapped in his surreal broadcast dimension realize just how little control they actually have. What plays as cheerful kids'-TV spectacle on the surface curdles into something stranger and more unsettling the longer the cast stays inside it, with the film leaning into the gap between the unicorn's sunny performance and the increasingly demented behavior underneath it. It is a premise built for dark comedy, using the trappings of children's entertainment to tell a story that is anything but.
About the cast
Cristin Milioti and Delaney Quinn lead the trapped cast, joined by Topher Grace, Keegan-Michael Key, Michael Shannon, and Patton Oswalt, with Clint Howard and Eric Bauza rounding out the ensemble.
Context & significance
Buddy is a joint US-Israel production running 95 minutes, a tight runtime for a premise this concentrated. The film sits in horror-tinged comedy territory, built around a single confined setting that lets its cast play the escalation for both laughs and genuine unease. That confinement is part of the design: with nowhere else for the story to go, every scene has to squeeze more strangeness out of the same warped set, and the film leans into that pressure rather than opening the world up.
Watching Buddy on Ktime
K-Time streams Buddy with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so the film is easy to follow whether a viewer wants the dialogue delivered in Farsi or the original performances with Farsi text alongside them. A free K-Time account login is all that is needed to start watching, and the Farsi-first design of the platform makes tracking down offbeat comedies like this one straightforward.