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Why Solar Opposites Season 2 Brought The Wall Back

This interview contains SPOILERS for SOLAR OPPOSITES seasons 1 and 2. Mike McMahan and Justin Roiland’s sci-fi animated sitcom Solar Opposites is technically about a family of aliens stuck on planet Earth, learning lessons about how to love one another while, they try to repair their spaceship. However, as the first season progressed, the show slowly revealed it was simultaneously telling another story. One of the aliens, Yumyulack (Sean Giambrone), has a habit of shrinking down humans and imprisoning them in a wall-sized terrarium. In a surprising twist, we get to see that the tiny humans have actually formed their…
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Solar Opposites Season 2 Review (Spoiler-Free)

This Solar Opposites review contains no spoilers. The aliens of Solar Opposites are like a classic sitcom family, sort of. They try to learn a lesson at the end of each episode, but they’re also opportunistic jerks with access to all manner of overpowered sci-fi technology, so the path to learning is always paved with a lot of human corpses They’re also very stupid aliens, so all they usually end up learning is that they’re stuck together on Earth. But they love each other …maybe? Kind of. In contrast with Solar Opposites’ creators Mike McMahan and Justin Roiland’s other show,…
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