At Hulu’s Television Critics Association winter press day today, Oswalt and Blum talked to reporters about their angle on the character. “He’s this weird, oddity and that’s baked into the character,” Blum said. “He’s aware he’s not an A-lister and it drives him insane!”
Marvel s M.O.D.O.K. (Credit: Hulu)
Blum said that playing with the fact that this super villain (in his head) has a huge ego riddled with self doubt was a font of comedy gold. “To explore that with his family and work lent itself to the show,” Blum continued. “Creating a show around that excited us.”
Patton Oswalt is literally a Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing in
M.O.D.O.K., a new Hulu series that takes the Marvel Comics villain to very silly places. The stop-motion animated series finds M.O.D.O.K. kicked out of his evil organization, dealing with a crumbling marriage, and having an all-around midlife crisis. Watch the
M.O.D.O.K. trailer below
MODOK Trailer
I can tell you right now that I am completely unfamiliar with M.O.D.O.K. as a character. I think I maybe vaguely heard of the supervillain at some point, but beyond that, I am ignorant of all-things-M.O.D.O.K. So I don’t know how much this animated Hulu series has to do with the source material that inspired it, but gosh darn it, this looks fun.