The Solar Opposites are almost back on Hulu, prepped and ready to fill that Rick and Morty-sized hole in our lives! Even though it feels like it’s been an eternity since the last season, we last saw the misfit family from Planet Shlorp in July 2022, getting into various flavors of dark comedic high jinks that you would expect from an adult animated sitcom about aliens adapting to life on Earth. The show became an instant hit for Hulu amongst seasoned fans of adult animation, as well as people discovering the world of mature animated comedies for the very first time. With Solar Opposites Season 4, there are some significant changes behind the scenes, so here’s a handy cast and character guide to get a grasp of who’s who before the fourth season premieres on Monday, August 14, 2023:
Dan Stevens as Korvo
Korvo is probably the closest thing the ensemble cast has to a main character, being the “straight man” of the group and the voice you hear in the narration. Korvo, his partner Terry, and their two replicants left their home planet Shlorp after a meteor destroyed it. The group crash lands on Earth and has to adapt to their surroundings, but unlike his partner Terry, Korvo is less than thrilled about his family’s crash landing on this floating rock we humans call home. He views Earth as a primitive planet and the inhabitants of it even more so.
Still, every once in a while, even Korvo can’t help but get seduced by the novelty of Earth’s customs, like the time he fell in love with the Earth-based children’s show Funbucket. Still, Korvo has still remained relatively steadfast in his goal to get him and his family off the planet and into new horizons, preferably on another world that either won’t get destroyed and/or won’t be annoying. Korvo was voiced by series co-creator Justin Roiland until Season 4. Roiland was booted off the show after domestic violence charges against the creative went public. Starting with Season 5, Korvo is voiced by the iconic Dan Stevens. Stevens’ previous voice-acting work includes the beloved Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, as well as titles like Netflix’s The Sea Beast.
Thomas Middleditch as Terry
Thomas Middleditch is well-used to playing geniuses such as he did in Silicon Valley, so his portrayal of a complete idiot in Solar Opposites feels like a nice change of pace. It’s always felt almost deliberately unclear what Terry’s exact relationship to Korvo is. Are they friends, married, in a romantic relationship of any kind, or is their relationship just purely Platonic? Whatever the case may be, their partners and Terry’s contribution to Korvo’s smarts is to be an expert on the Pupa, the infant-like tadpole creature that the group was charged to care for. Unfortunately, Terry admittedly cheated in most of his classes on Pupa science and is just about as clueless about the Pupa as everyone else.
Where Korvo is spending almost all of his time finding ways off Earth, Terry has grown quite accustomed to it, as evidenced by his constantly changing graphic t-shirts every single episode as well as his signature Star Wars Poe Dameron pajamas. Even if his and Korvo’s situation is romantic or not, Terry is more the fun-loving parent than Korvo’s strict one when it comes to their raising of the two replicants and the Pupa.
Sean Giambrone as Yumyulack
Star of The Goldbergs, Sean Giambrone plays the young replicant who clearly takes after Korvo. Though he and his fellow replicant have to attend school and have to act like human children, Yumyulack is a borderline sociopath who’s constantly thinking of new weapons to craft and using nearby humans as test subjects. He even was shrinking several humans down to the size of a mouse and storing them in a complicated wall in the replicants’ room. He eventually decided that he’d only put people who deserve to be imprisoned to be shrunk down to size. Still, by that point, he had already inadvertently created a cutthroat society within the wall. More on that in a bit. Yumyulack may be grumpy and may have a callous disregard for human life, but he still greatly cares about his family, especially his sister, Jesse.
Mary Mack as Jesse
Mary Mack brings to life Jesse, the replicant of Terry who shares his quick acclimation to Earth. While not as dimwitted as Terry, Jesse still has some childlike naivety about her, and there seems to be a clear indication that she wants to be accepted by humans even though the vast majority of them seem to despise her and her family. Still, despite the occasional bully or mean teacher, Jesse still takes it in stride and rarely ever lets negative or horrifying experiences affect her positive outlook on life. Jesse is even more fun-loving than the literal infant that is the Pupa, especially considering the dark purpose that the Pupa is destined to fulfill.
Sagan McMahan as The Pupa
The Pupa might seem like a harmless, cute little mascot for the series, but his role could potentially change the fate of the Earth forever. The Pupa isn’t a Shlorpian like the rest of the Solar Opposites, but according to Yumyulack, his DNA contains the entire history of Planet Shlorp that was lost when the planet was destroyed. There is a significant catch to this, however. Once the Pupa reaches maturity, it will apparently consume Earth and recreate the planet in the image of Shlorp. Every season, the Pupa’s appearance changes and evolves, meaning that it’s continuing to grow closer and closer to its alleged destiny. With all that being said, the Solar Opposites don’t really know all that much about the Pupa and have been wrong about him before, even with Terry supposedly being an expert on the species. Of course, while we wait for the Pupa’s apocalyptic transformation, the character has been the source of many of the show’s best moments.
Tiffany Haddish as Aisha
While not a series regular, The Afterparty star Tiffany Haddish lends her voice to the family’s ship’s AI, Aisha. Instead of being a helpful, all-powerful cybernetic being, Aisha is massively sarcastic and extremely passive-aggressive. She is almost constantly mocking and making fun of the sheer incompetency of the Solar Opposites and doesn’t have any misgivings or regrets about it. Perhaps she represents the attitude of perfectionism that was present on Schlorp that the family may or may not have forgotten about.
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