Krapopolis is an American adultanimated sitcom created by Dan Harmon for the Fox Broadcasting Company. Before its series premiere, the series was renewed for a second season in October 2022[2] and for a third season in March 2023.[3] The series premiered on September 24, 2023, on the Animation Domination programming block.[4] The first season concluded on May 19, 2024.[5] In July 2024, Fox renewed the series for a fourth season ahead of the season 2 premiere.[6] In May 2025, the series was renewed for a fifth season, ahead of the season 2 finale and the season 3 premiere.[7] The third season is set to premiere on September 28, 2025.[8]
Set in a parodic version of mythicalAncient Greece, the series centers on a dysfunctional family of humans, gods, and monsters that tries to run one of the world's first cities without killing each other.[9]
Voice cast
The main characters of Krapopolis (From left to right) in the season three promotion: Deliria, Shlub, Tyrannis, Stupendous, and Hippocampus.
Main
Richard Ayoade as Tyrannis, son of Shlub and Deliria, paternal half-brother to Hippocampus, maternal half-brother to Stupendous and the main protagonist who is the demigod king of Krapopolis.
Shlub, the thousand-year-old father of Hippocampus and Tyrannis who is a Mantitaur (a centaur/manticore creature), Deliria's husband, and an unemployed artist.
Paizo, a third generation Mantitaur who is Hegemone's husband.
Pam Murphy as Stupendous, the daughter of Deliria, Tyrannis' maternal half-sister, and Hippocampus' stepsister who is a half-cyclops demigoddess that wears an eyepatch that covers up where her right eye is supposed to go. She is the leader of Krapopolis' military.
Duncan Trussell as Hippocampus, a fish-like Atlantean who is Tyrannis' paternal half-brother and Stupendous's stepbrother. He is an inventor who wears a fishbowl helmet filled with water to survive and a bronze baby walker that helps him get around on land.
Hannah Waddingham as Deliria, the mother of Tyrannis and Stupendous and Shlub's wife who is the Goddess of Self-Destruction and Questionable Choice. She was mentioned to have been kicked out of Mount Olympus for an as-yet-unidentified offense.
Tessa Bonham Jones as Pippa, the narrator whose voice can be heard at the end of some episodes explaining how certain moments in Ancient Greece would lead to the creation of something in modern times.
Michael Urie as Hermes, the Messenger of the Gods and one of Deliria's few remaining friends on Mount Olympus where he tells her some juicy gossip about anything.
Stephanie Beatriz as Daphne, a wood nymph and Hippocampus' occasional love interest who along with other wood nymphs want to rid the world of humans to protect the forest.
Chris Hardwick as a fictionalized version of himself, an Ancient Greek who is cursed to moderate all panels until the end of time.
Holmes as Prack the Unstoppable, a known friend of Stupendous who died from a bee sting that they were fatally allergic to and resides in the Greek underworld. Prack was identified as non-binary by their second appearance in "Hades Nuts".
Ben Stiller as Prometheus, a Titan who gave fire to mortals and was chained to a rock on Zeus' orders where he had an eagle peck out Prometheus' liver for all eternity.
Danny Trejo as Chief Ravdi, the chief of the Placeans
In June 2020, it was announced that Dan Harmon signed a deal with Fox to create a new adult animated comedy for 2022, with a straight-to-series order.[10] It is Fox Entertainment Studios' first fully owned animated comedy series. Bento Box Entertainment is the animation studio.
In May 2021, it was announced that the series would be titled Krapopolis.[11] At the same time, Fox stated that it would be "the first-ever animated series curated entirely on the blockchain", and the network would sell NFTs and other digital tie-ins to the series.[11][12] According to Fox, NFT owners "will be able to vote on specific show content and dictate exclusive on-air elements."[13]
In June 2021, it was announced that Jordan Young would be the showrunner for the series.[14]
In October 2022, Fox gave the series an early renewal for a second season ahead of its premiere.[2]
In March 2023, Fox gave the series another early renewal ahead of its premiere, with the show lasting for a total of three seasons.[3] In April 2023, it was announced that Alex Rubens was replacing Young as showrunner for the second and third seasons.[15]
In July 2024, the series was renewed for a fourth season ahead of the second-season premiere.[6]
In May 2025, the series was renewed for a fifth season.[7]
Release
In July 2022, Fox announced the series was scheduled to premiere with a special preview episode on November 27, 2022, before its official premiere in 2023.[16] It was delayed to September 24, 2023.[4] The second season premiered on September 29, 2024.[17] The third season is scheduled to premiere on September 28, 2025.[8]
In Canada, Citytv and CHCH share the broadcast rights due to scheduling issues and is available to stream on Citytv+.[citation needed]
Reception
The show has received generally mixed reviews. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 56% with an average rating of 6/10, based on 16 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Carried by its superb voice cast like Atlas shouldering the Earth, Krapopolis falls short of divine comedy but offers consistent enough chuckles for fans of animated raunch."[18]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 60 out of 100 based on 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[19]
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