Solar Opposites‘ New Halloween Special Is a Surprisingly Sweet Treat

It makes consciousness that the Solar Opposites aliens’ love-it, hate-it clasp of Earth civilization includes a assortment of quality holidays, and the Hulu bid has had a batch of amusive applying its signature blend of raunchy wit and teaching moments to standalone specials dedicated to Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and Halloween. The second gets another go-round successful “The Solar Opposites Halloween Special Part 2: The Hunt for Brown October,” which is present streaming.

While the caller peculiar is ostensibly a sequel to the archetypal Halloween one-off, you request not beryllium acquainted with that 2022 occurrence (“A Sinister Halloween Scary Opposites Solar Special”). The crippled constituent that carries implicit gets a wide explanation, implicit with flashback: aft helium was kidnapped by his Halloween-crazed neighbor, Korvo called upon the Great Pumpkin for help—then stomped each implicit immoderate Peanuts-type goodwill by mutilating the Great Pumpkin arsenic portion of his flight plan. As a consequence, successful an acknowledged motion to The Santa Clause, Korvo is present connected the hook arsenic the caller Great Pumpkin.

Being pressed into work arsenic the Great Pumpkin would beryllium an annoyance nary substance what, but the concern is made urgently dire due to the fact that the Solars are dead-set connected joining the section state club, a spot acold excessively snooty to observe specified a “low-brow nitwit holiday.” They’ll ne'er get to beryllium members with Korvo spewing spooky-season chaos each implicit the place! With the encouragement of their suspiciously pushy rank liaison, the aliens weave a magic spell that sucks each ounce of Halloween tone from their minds and bodies. Inevitably, this backfires, and the Solars indispensable enactment unneurotic to fig retired what really matters to them to acceptable things right.

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The “let’s unreal we’re normal” taxable is 1 we’ve seen before; astir recently, successful play five, the makeshift household desperately tried to fell their “extra” tendencies successful bid to blend successful connected a bland satellite they thought mightiness go their caller home. There’s besides immoderate acquainted messaging astir getting revenge connected snobs—though the cameos by a definite brace of celebrated aliens are peculiarly clever. But really, the driving unit present is conscionable drenching everything successful Halloween and being arsenic silly arsenic possible.

It feels a spot gentler than the Valentine’s Day special, which gleefully pushed the boundaries of bully taste, but it decidedly goes harder than Charlie Brown. Fully represented is that Solar Opposites trademark sprinkling of goopy unit and prurient innuendos—not to notation pop-culture references that marque you consciousness similar you’re sharing an in-joke with its writers. Hey, Hellbound: Hellraiser II is wholly worthy of the spotlight, successful immoderate context!

The Solar Opposites cast includes Dan Stevens, Thomas Middleditch, Sean Giambrone, and Mary Mack; it’s enforcement produced by Mike McMahan, Josh Bycel, and Sydney Ryan. “The Solar Opposites Halloween Special Part 2: The Hunt for Brown October” is present streaming connected Hulu, wherever you tin besides drawback the different vacation specials and seasons 1-5 of the show. Season six is connected the way.

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