“Entergalactic” is an adult animated TV special created by Kid Cudi for Netflix.
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about it!
- Entergalactic is an adult animated music television special
- It is created by American musician and actor Kid Cudi
- The special serves as a musical component to the album of the same name
- Originally intended as a television series
- On August 25, 2022, Entergalactic was announced to be released as a television special
- The special premiered on September 30, 2022, on Netflix
- This was the same date that Kid Cudi’s album was released
- Jabari is a charming, streetwear-clad artist on the cusp of real success
- After a chance run-in with his cool new photographer neighbor, Meadow, Jabari has to figure out whether he can make space for love in his life
- On July 23, 2019, Netflix announced that Kid Cudi and Ian Edelman would write and produce what was originally going to be an adult animated music TV series adaptation of Cudi’s album Entergalactic
- Cudi had previously collaborated with Edelman in 2010, on the HBO series How to Make It in America
- Cudi serves as an executive producer alongside Kenya Barris, through their respective production companies Mad Solar and Khalabo Ink Society
- In September 2021, Cudi took to Twitter to thank the team that helped bring the project to fruition, and reassured fans they wouldn’t be disappointed
- In a August 2022 interview with Esquire, Cudi revealed he recorded the music first—“a suite of songs on the beauty of being freed by love”
- And that he worked backward to storyboard the narrative before hiring a writing team to script it
- On August 25, 2022, it was announced Entergalactic would instead be released as a television special
- In July 2019, Cudi was cast in the series
- In June 2022, Jessica Williams, Timothée Chalamet, Ty Dolla $ign, Laura Harrier, Vanessa Hudgens, Christopher Abbott, 070 Shake, Teyana Taylor, Jaden Smith, Keith David, Arturo Castro, and Macaulay Culkin were revealed to be the rest of the cast
- On June 8, Cudi revealed his real-life older sister, Maisha, would voice his on-screen older sister Ellie, among other voices
- On September 15, 2021, Cudi revealed that the series, and the album, is set to premiere in 2022
- In September 2021, Cudi released a short trailer in promotion for the Netflix series, which revealed the music would be produced by his longtime collaborators Dot da Genius and Plain Pat
- On April 24, 2022, Cudi took to Twitter to write “Entergalactic is gonna be something really fucking special. Minds will melt. This cast?? The MUSIC?? Listen. [You] heard it here first. Remember this tweet. Stay tuned for more news in June!”
- On June 8, Netflix unveiled the “first look” at Entergalactic, in a trailer that also revealed the cast
- On June 10, the first original song created for the series, titled “Do What I Want”, was issued on streaming platforms as the album’s first official single
- On July 12, Cudi revealed on Twitter, the official trailer for the show will premiere in August, featuring two new songs, with one of the songs set to be released as the second single
- On September 12, Netflix unveiled a new trailer for Entergalactic
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the special holds a 92% rating
- Based on 12 critics’ reviews
- With an average rating of 7.9/10
- On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, Entergalactic has received a score of 73 out of 100
- Based on 4 critic reviews
- Indicating “generally favorable reviews”
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