The second season of Solar Opposites is streaming now on Hulu and, if you haven’t yet, go ahead and watch that right now. In the meantime, those who did watch it may recall getting a note by Korvo promoting the link to a page called “The Lesson Analyzer”. The site which clearly has web design odes to the mid-90s features bad gateways, broken image files, and a big ol’ button that lets you learn a lesson.
On a click of the button, you get such classic one-liners as “Don’t Judge A Book By It’s Cover”, “Thaw the turkey before you put it in the deep fryer”, and “Teamwork makes the dream work”. All important lessons, but I think the biggest lesson I’ve learned from watching this show is that it’s don’t piss off your now mutated neighbors.
This isn’t the first-time a show has used real interactive experiences with their fanbase. South Park had a hotline last season, Rick and Morty fucked around with QR codes, and there have been more than a few now defunct websites created by TV shows. With a third season of Solar Opposites already ordered, who knows what other kinds of cool shit the show is going to come up with?
Read our review of Solar Opposites season two here.
Synopsis:
Co-created by Justin Roiland (Rick & Morty) and Mike McMahan (ex-writer’s assistant on Rick & Morty), Solar Opposites centers around a team of four aliens who escape their exploding home world only to crash land into a move-in ready home in suburban America. They are evenly split on whether Earth is awful or awesome. Korvo (Justin Roiland) and Yumyulack (Sean Giambrone) only see the pollution, crass consumerism, and human frailty while Terry (Thomas Middleditch) and Jesse (Mary Mack) love humans and all their TV, junk food and fun stuff. Their mission: protect the Pupa, a living super computer that will one day evolve into its true form, consume them and terraform the Earth. On season two of Solar Opposites, the Solar Opposites take it bigger, funnier, and more opposite than ever before. Solar Opposites is executive produced by Roiland, McMahan and Josh Bycel. The series is produced by 20th Television.