Paramount+ surprise-drops full season of Among Us animated series

But we kid Among Us, which does, legitimately, have a pretty incredible team of people lurking behind it. That most especially includes the voice cast (which includes Randall Park, Dan Stevens, Ashley Johnson, Elijah Wood, Yvette Nicole Brown, Liv Hewson, Kimiko Glenn, Patton Oswalt, Wayne Knight, and certified voice acting royalty/MadTV alums Phil LaMarr and Debra Wilson). But it’s also got a solid track record with its behind-the-scenes crew, most especially creator Owen Dennis, who parlayed work on Regular Show into the truly excellent Infinity Train a few years back. All of which makes for a much better pedigree than “all ten episodes shoved on to a mid-tier streaming service with no advance warning” might suggest, but, then, we’re not streaming executives, or privy to their labyrinthine ways.

Working from the premise of the game, the show centers on a crew of astronauts (identified only by their spacesuit colors) who realize problems are afoot when members of the crew keep bloodily dying. (An alien Imposter may, in fact, be Among Them.) The trailer indicates that it won’t be taking the subsequent murder mystery much more seriously than most rounds of Among Us—which frequently devolve into slapstick, random accusations, and general playing to frustrate—do, going heavy on a comedic tone maybe best embodied by Park’s goofball, self-interested captain. The series is available… Well, right now. Like we said! Hell, there’s only ten 14-minute episodes; you could probably get the whole thing knocked out before bedtime, were you so inclined.