Al Gough & Miles Millar Team Up for Adult Animated Series Grim at Netflix

Filmmaking duo Al Gough and Miles Millar, known for co-creating hits like Smallville and the recent Netflix smash Wednesday, are re-teaming with the streaming giant for a new project: the adult animated series Grim. The show is being produced by Boom! Studios and promises a dark, supernatural comedy bent.

The series will center on the character of Grim, who is described as a disillusioned young woman working for the Department of Delegated Death in a vast bureaucratic underworld.

The Plot: A Bureaucracy of Death

Grim follows the title character as she navigates her soul-crushing job in the afterlife. The Department of Delegated Death is a massive, highly bureaucratic operation responsible for handling the influx of souls.

Grim’s life takes an unexpected and catastrophic turn when she inadvertently causes the death of the one person she was supposed to ensure lived. This immense mistake unleashes a world-threatening paradox, setting Grim on a desperate, high-stakes mission to fix the cosmic error she created.

The show is expected to blend the supernatural elements and dark aesthetic that Gough and Millar utilized so successfully in Wednesday, but with the heightened comedic and satirical freedom offered by the adult animation format.

The Creative Team

Gough and Millar will serve as Executive Producers and Co-Showrunners for the series. They are executive producing through their Millar Gough Ink production company.

They are joined by Ross Richie and Stephen Christy from Boom! Studios, along with David Lee as an Executive Producer. Megan Casey is overseeing the project for Netflix.

This venture marks a continued, successful partnership between Gough and Millar and Netflix, building on the phenomenal global success of Wednesday. The move into the competitive adult animation space suggests the duo is keen to apply their signature blend of genre storytelling and witty dialogue to new formats.