James Gunn’s recent Superman reboot is already generating a number of sequels and spinoffs, including new movies about Supergirl and Lex Luthor, plus a series about Supe’s lecherous pal Jimmy Olsen.
While the idea of dedicating that much time to Clark Kent’s co-worker may seem kind of odd, it isn’t all that surprising, seeing as how it’s coming from the same company that just gave us a whole TV show about the sexy adventures of Batman’s butler.
But we’re genuinely excited about this show now that there’s a chance that it could find Jimmy Olsen investigating dick doodles and poop attacks.
It was recently announced that the Olsen show will be helmed by Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda, the duo behind Netflix’s American Vandal. This makes total sense, considering that the mockumentary series was also about youthful journalists.
American Vandal, which began in 2017, was a masterful satire of the true crime genre, which used the familiar trappings of podcasts like Serial and docuseries like Making a Murderer to tell a story about high school students looking into one bully’s claim that he was wrongfully accused of a crime. The crime? Scrawling dicks on the entire faculty’s cars.
The second season found the same lead characters (brilliantly played by Tyler Alvarez and Griffin Gluck) investigating the villainous online troll “The Turd Burglar,” who may have been responsible for spiking a school cafeteria’s lemonade with laxatives, an incident that became known as “The Brownout” (for obvious reasons).
American Vandal wasn’t just some depthless spoof, both seasons served up genuinely compelling narratives that clearly had a lot to say about the state of modern media, both traditional and social. It was insightful, and surprisingly, even poignant at times.
And, as far as we know, it’s the only series predicated on dicks and diarrhea to win a Peabody Award.
While we don’t necessarily need Jimmy Olsen to exclusively investigate scatalogical crimes, if the DC show were to take its cues from American Vandal, that wouldn’t be such a bad thing. After all, unless Superman is going to pop up in every single episode, presumably the stakes for the Olsen-centric stories will be far lower than in a blockbuster superhero film. American Vandal was proof that audiences are more than willing to invest in ground level stories that, while not life or death, are hugely compelling nonetheless. If Perrault and Yacenda can manage to imbue the same sense of earnest curiosity in Jimmy Olsen, the project will no doubt be a success.
It’s just too bad that Netflix canceled American Vandal in 2018. But at least they still make that show about cake that looks like stuff.
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