Univision Gets Political With New Web Series ‘Heads Of Space’

Univision is getting into the election year spirit. The network aimed at Hispanic-Americans has launched Heads of Space, an animated web series that satirizes six of the eight remaining candidates in this year’s Presidential race.

Heads of Space, which was developed by Latin-American ad agency Plop, opens with a cataclysmic meteor hurtling toward the earth. President Obama decides to stay behind and sacrifice himself, but he sends six other politicians–Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Donald Trump, and Marco Rubio–to Mars, where they are expected to lead a newly-colonized society. They’re crammed onto a spaceship together, and the bickering begins almost immediately.

The first episode of the show is embedded below. It is available on Udisea, a recently-launched digital destination aimed at bilingual millennials.

Heads of Space is clearly playing up each candidate’s best-known characteristics: Trump is rich, Sanders speaks for the common folk, Clinton comes off as scripted, and so on. At the same time, the writing is pretty funny, and the voice acting is on point. And while the first episode’s exchange about Latino identity appeals to a particular type of viewer, Heads of Space is fairly broad, and it has the potential to attract a wide audience.

Univision will roll out new episodes of Heads of Space each week, with the in-show characters commenting on up-to-date political twists. My only hope is that, as some of the candidates drop out of the race, Heads of Space writes them off in increasingly extravagant fashion.