Owen Dennis Launches Among Us Tv Show on Paramount+
Paramount+ quietly released the among us tv show, and Owen Dennis is steering the animated adaptation. The series takes the 2018 game’s four-to-15-player deduction format and turns it into a story built around 11 crewmates on the spaceship Skeld.
Owen Dennis on the game’s reach
Dennis said Among Us was “quite the phenomenon,” after playing it and seeing how far it spread during the 2020 lockdowns. “And then I remember my next-door neighbor had a birthday party and kids were driving by with Among Us characters hanging out their doors,” he said. “I’d go to parks and see it graffitied on stuff.”
“It was everywhere man, it was nuts.” That kind of reach is the reason the property made the jump to animation at all: a game that started in 2018 with little fanfare later became one of the clearest shorthand references from the lockdown period.
Skeld crew and cast
The new series follows an alien impostor picking crewmates off one by one, which keeps the show anchored to the same suspicion mechanic that made the game click. Randall Park voices Red, the spaceship captain, while Kimiko Glenn plays Cyan, described as a new-age spiritualist geologist.
Yvette Nicole Brown, Elijah Wood, Dan Stevens, Randall Park, and Kimiko Glenn round out the cast, giving the show recognizable voices without changing the game’s stripped-down visual style. That balance matters here: the adaptation leans on the cast to carry a format that, on paper, is closer to social deduction than traditional serialized drama.
Kimiko Glenn’s read
“I always assume, especially when you’re joining a project that obviously has a stacked cast and an awesome creative, they’ve got you,” Glenn said. “There was so much on the page to play with that, even if they were just the color brown or whatever just floating in space, I think people would still enjoy it because the script is so good.”
That is the real test for the among us tv show: whether the writing and ensemble can do the heavy lifting once the novelty of the game’s name fades. Paramount+ has made the first move by releasing it quietly; now the series has to hold attention on its own, one crewmate at a time.
