Season Review: Oh My God, Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances Season One

Adult animation produced by African-American demos are typically male-oriented and anime-esque. The likes of Carl Jones, Aaron McGruder, and LeSean Thomas have largely dominated the black-produced animation industry over the course of the last decade with a few exceptions, but where are the women? Fortunately, they are a-coming. Last year, we announced Good Times: Black Again as the best animated comedy of 2024 just narrowly beating out Adult Swim’s Royal Crackers. This year, Adult Swim gives us a brand-new adult animated comedy series from erotica-artist Adele “Supreme” Williams called Oh My God, Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances becoming the first animated comedy since Hey Monie! to feature a black female protagonist.

In OMG Yes!, three quirky, unconventional black chicks navigate the world of sex, dating and womanhood in the 22nd century. Our setting is that of an Afro-futuristic Los Angeles, imagine if Futurama and Jet Set Radio had a baby, and that’s kind of where we are here. Robots, aliens, anthropomorphic characters, and everything in between may sound outlandish but this series is actually rather grounded in its characters’ personalities. For those who are fans of Adele’s artwork and thinking this series was going to be a seven-episode fuck fest, let me go ahead and temper those expectations for you a bit. For starters, Adult Swim is a network on basic cable and features a standards & practices department that doesn’t like bodily fluids or genitalia so you’ll see none of that here.

Noticing the show’s writing credits, I couldn’t help but see Ms. Adele is taking a crack at writing each of the show’s episodes, an increasingly common practice for Adult Swim animated comedies. I’ve not seen a lot of Adele’s writings but it seems like she has a pretty good handle at breaking into premises and having a lot of fun with futuristic concepts juxtaposed with a lot of paranormal happenings. As the show moves through it’s first season however, I couldn’t help but think as the episodes wore on, the onion that is Adele starts to really split open and we find a writer who is talking about very vulnerable topics like thinking about past loves, depression, anxiety, and missing her mother after all these years. THIS is where I think really starts to shine because Adele seems like a really confident producer, but she’s still compartmentalizing a lot of her own personal issues which is coming through in her writing and I’m loving every second of it. It takes a bit to get to this point, but if you, the viewer stick with it, I promise there’s a good amount of payoff by the time you make it to the end.

To help tell these stories, Adele has concocted a rather strong voice cast featuring the likes of Gary Anthony Williams, Xosha Roquemore (Captain America: Brave New World) DomiNque Perry, Arif Zahir (Family Guy) and a number of guest stars like Chris Parnell, Keith David, and Cree Summer. In fact, in a stroke of sheer brilliance, someone asked the legendary Cree to not only do what she does in putting together stellar performances in the series but also act as a voice director which, if you’re going to ask someone to voice direct, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone has versed in the arts of voice as you would Cree Summer. That said, it takes a few episodes before some(I won’t name names here) of the actors are feeling comfortable with their characters as some the performances seemed a bit stoic in their execution, but as time went on they got a lot better so I was happy to see that. Some of the dialogue DOES get a bit hokey at times but the humor and heart of the matter always seems to shine through.

Six Point Harness and studio director Greg Franklin takes on directing duties for OMG Yes! and does a fantastic job. I mentioned the Futurama comparisons before and that’s very much evident here even whence factoring in the show’s many background gags and character designs and the amount of color that the futuristic Los Angeles showcases is really quite remarkable and probably one of the freshest looking series on Adult Swim this side of Rick and Morty and he’s probably doing so with a fraction of the budget that show gets. Moreover, near the end of the season you’ll get a chance to check out one of the craziest car chase scenes I’ve seen since Archer and again, Greg’s probably doing it with a fraction of the budget that FX gave THAT show but I would say it’s very much on par here.

If Adult Swim’s lineup were a bowl of delicious M&M’s, Oh My God, Yes! A Series of Extremely Relatable Circumstances is like finding that surprise Starburst that you weren’t expecting. Largely Adele Williams gives us a very strong series, but I think her best stuff is yet to come and I hope that plays out in either a second season here or anything else she wants to work on in the future.

Oh My God…Yes! season one is available now on Digital