Middle America gets some very odd new neighbours in Solar Opposites, an animated sci-fi comedy about a family of aliens who cannot agree on whether Earth is worth living on. Justin Roiland is credited behind the 2020 series and also leads its cast list. On K-Time it comes with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles.
What is Solar Opposites about?
Their home planet was a far better place than ours, and now it is gone. With nowhere else to go, a family of aliens takes refuge in an ordinary corner of middle America and tries to settle in among humans. Opinion inside the house is split: some of them find Earth a fine place to stay, others think it is a poor substitute for what they lost. Alongside the daily arguments they have a mission, which is to protect the Pupa. The Pupa is a living supercomputer that is expected, one day, to grow into its true form, consume the family and terraform the Earth. Until that day, the aliens have suburban life to deal with.
About the cast
Four names appear in the cast list: Justin Roiland, Sean Giambrone, Thomas Middleditch and Mary Mack. As the series is animated, their work here is heard, not seen. Roiland's name shows up twice in the catalogue entry, once among the performers and once as the person credited behind the series, so he is involved on both sides of the production.
Context & significance
Solar Opposites carries three genre tags, animation, comedy and sci-fi, and the premise uses all of them. The science fiction supplies the lost planet, the refugees and the strange creature in their care. The comedy comes from dropping those refugees into a quiet American neighbourhood and letting them disagree about it. Episodes are short, around 22 minutes each, which makes the series easy to watch one at a time or several in a row. It is a production of the United States and is among the well-received animated comedies in the catalogue. Viewers should note that the humour is built on a family arguing about human habits, so the target is everyday life on Earth as seen by outsiders who remember somewhere better.
Watching Solar Opposites on Ktime
Solar Opposites is ready to stream on K-Time, where the menus and the whole viewing experience are offered in Farsi for the Iranian diaspora. Anyone can read this page. To press play, log in with your K-Time account, then pick the Persian dub or the original audio with Persian subtitles.