Mike McMahan's dystopian animated Odd Jobs for Prime Video

Polygon reports that Mike McMahan has revealed a new animated comedy, Odd Jobs, in the works for Prime Video.

Set in the year 2127, Odd Jobs follows a group of gig-economy workers who take on bizarre and deadly tasks through an app also called Odd Jobs. The series is set in the "neo Midwest" and the pick-up announcement described it as an "extreme late-stage capitalist hellscape" — essentially Mad Max with smartphones and slightly more water. McMahan, who wrote on Rick and Morty and served as that show's showrunner in season 4, created Solar Opposites for Hulu and later expanded into the Star Trek franchise with Lower Decks.

Odd Jobs was co-created by Dominic Dierkes, who also worked on Solar Opposites and was part of Derrick Comedy; McMahan and Dierkes said in a statement, "While wandering through the wilderness, we accidentally stumbled through a portal and found ourselves hundreds of years in the future. We witnessed bizarre and grotesque portents about where humanity is heading. Instead of acting on those warnings, we're thrilled to turn them into an animated show." Titmouse, the studio behind Big Mouth, Star Trek: Lower Decks, The Legend of Vox Machina, Metalocalypse and Scavengers Reign, is involved, and Odd Jobs does not yet have a release date.

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