Netflix You can hang the medal of having a fairly powerful animation catalog, especially when it comes to series for adults. Along with great titles like ‘Bojack Horseman’ and ‘Big Mouth’, a new addition sneaked in last year that has gone a little more unnoticed, but has the potential to become one of the most interesting animated series on the platform.
‘Top Secrets’ (Inside Job) is a perfect mix between an office sitcom and a slightly off-the-wall sci-fi series that pokes fun at conspiracy theories. It is the first project as showrunner of Shion Takeuchiwho already has plenty of tables as a screenwriter and producer with ‘Desencanto’ , ‘Current Stories’ and ‘Gravity Falls’, and also has alex hirsch as executive producer.
The animated series focuses on the agency Cognito INCwhich deals with ruling the world in the shadows and covering up the biggest secrets and conspiracies.
Reagan Ridley She is a brilliant scientist who lives in the shadow of her father and whose lack of social skills prevents her from fully connecting with her classmates… although things begin to change little by little when they put her as a partner. Brett Handwho is basically a perfect jock that everyone likes.
In their day to day, Reagan, Brett and the rest of the department have to deal with all kinds of global emergencies, from attending a reptilian summit to building a robot to replace the president of the United States… So with this We can already imagine what a normal day is like in this office.
Already input ‘Top secrets’ burden with the hateful comparisons and, being brutally honest, it doesn’t end up offering anything new that we haven’t seen in other series with the concept of “office workers, but with science fiction” a la ‘Loki’ or ‘Men in Black’. And seeing the tone of animation for adults, it’s also impossible not to compare it to ‘Rick and Morty’, but yet it still manages to separate itself from other similar projects with its very clever and biting humor and its cast of characters.
Because the good thing is that for fans of this type of series, and especially adult animation, it’s definitely worth giving it a try.
And beware, precisely to be an animation series “for adults”, ‘Ultrasecretos’ can boast of having a very careful and very expressive animationand to tell several moments of action where the quality of the animation is surprisingly good.
In its original version, ‘Ultrasecretos’ also has the voices of Lizzy Caplan, Christian Slater, Clark Duke, Tisha Campbell, Chris Diamantopoulos, John DiMaggio and Bobby Lee, who end up giving the characters even more charisma.
Because beyond a round distribution, what you stay with from ‘Ultrasecretos’ is with its very sharp and scathing humor that doesn’t cut a hair. In addition to exploring the traumas of its protagonists and exploring the political landscape, it also takes a good look at the most popular and most ridiculous cospiranoid theories without leaving the puppet head and without worrying about who it offends.
For now ‘Ultrasecretos’ consists of 10 chapters of between 27 and 31 minutes, so it is very easy to see it in one sitting. In addition and as we said above, it achieves a good balance between exposition or “filler” chapters and those that move the plot, with which it enters very easily. Yes, it suffers from too much exposure at the beginning, so the girl does not finish reaching the final stretch, but it is also necessary for us to get to know her extensive cast of characters and become fond of them.
Netflix has already confirmed that there is a second season underway to save us from the huge cliffhanger with which we ended in the last chapter, so for now we just have to sit and wait for the premiere date to be set before the end of the year.