The series aired on FX and features a star-studded cast of vocal actors.
QUICK FACTS:
- Walt Disney Co. subsidiary FXX released a show called “Little Demon” on Aug 25 starring the 13-year-old child of Satan and a pagan woman.
- The girl, referenced in the trailer as the “antichrist,” is featured along with her mother who is in a battle with Satan to keep custody of the teen.
- The show was described by Deadline as “animated horror.” However, the group One Million Moms is concerned that the way the series was made it will likely draw in a younger audience.
- The cast of the show includes Aubrey Plaza, Danny DeVito, and Lucy DeVito, and was created by Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner, and Kieran Valla.
- “We are going to keep going for it, until we are told no,” Kirschner told reporters about the boundary-pushing nature of the show. “We cut a bunch of stuff out, oddly enough.”
- The show’s trailer can be seen here. VIEWER DISCREtION ADVISED.
TROUBLING ISSUES:
- “I have a quest as the devil,” explains Danny Devito. “I met a beautiful woman and I have a gorgeous antichrist daughter who I love and want to be with. I get to play all the devilish things I’ve had in my career and this also gives me a family I care about.”
- When interviewed at Comic-Con in San Diego about her role as the mother figure, Plaza said, “I love that we are normalizing paganism. Laura is a pagan; she’s a witch; she’s jacked.”
- “We now call [Fowler, Kirschner and Valla] ‘The Demons, collectively,” Plaza said. “We were trying to find a place that felt like a good place for [Laura and Chrissy] to go hide, and Delaware is kind of a mysterious state because people don’t really know a lot about it, and we do.”
BACKGROUND:
- The Disney corporation has had a number of problems, both in person at their parks and in popularity, as reflected in their financial outcomes.
- Disney has bought several other media conglomerates, including 21st Century Fox, but has seen falling stock prices since they stood up to Florida’s parental notification laws.
