Showtime Developing ‘Multifarious Maris’ Animated Series

There’s something about Maris.

Showtime may be doubling down on original animated comedies. The same network that currently has Our Cartoon President under the hood for a second season is teaming up with Annah Feinberg (Arrested Development) is teaming up with Big Beach studios and Shadowmachine to develop a new animated comedy for Showtime called Multifarious Maris. 

The series revolves around Maris who has the power to travel the multiverse while inebriated thereby getting a chance to see how her life could’ve been had she made different decisions in her past. Whilst during her travels, she hopes to learn important lessons that she can then make a better future for herself.

Our Take

Rick and Morty, Family Guy, Futurama, and others have done this bit to great execution. To have a whole series revolving around a familiar concept but with a female lead helps spice things up a bit and could be a nice change of pace for Showtime. It’s interesting to see the types of animated projects that Showtime is taking on versus network sibling CBS whose All Access streaming service already has a couple of series both in development and production.

[Variety]