Mulligan is the answer to the question – what would happen if you took the film Idiocracy, added a dash of Will Forte’s The Last Man on Earth and made it an adult animated TV series and also worse? That it is a new project from the same stable as 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (co-created by Robert Carlock, the power with Tina Fey behind those phenomenal gagfests, and Sam Means – a writer on both – and executive produced by Fey herself) makes the disappointment all the greater.
The premise is fertile. Aliens attack Earth and are thwarted at the last moment by dumb jock Matty Mulligan (Nat Faxon) doing his best to emulate Independence Day’s solution to a similar problem by chucking a hand grenade into the main spaceship’s vent. Thus are the last 1,132 humans on Earth saved and faced with the question of how to rebuild civilisation.
