It’s been almost three years since Netflix announced it which was canceled American Vandal, Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, surprisingly funny and surprisingly poignant docuseries about cock and poop crimes in American high schools. Follow the serious language of a million podcasts and shows about real crimes, American Vandal he managed to be extremely silly and strangely resonant, telling stories about loneliness, isolation, and connection through the goal of saying the phrase “cocks” like 500 times over the course of a television season.
Perrault and Yacenda have been pretty quiet since the series was canceled; Yacenda directed several episodes of FXX Dave last year, but the couple has not collaborated in the meantime. Apparently, this is about to change, as Variety reports that the co-creators just got a new series, Players, a Paramount Plus. The show will once again be a mocku-docu-series, centered in a professional computer game team, specifically in League of Legends team, with editor Riot Games is executive producer of the program. (If you are unfamiliar with Lol, the data is not particularly important, but know that it is the type of game where competitions bring prizes in millions for the winners.) The series will focus on one of those teams, who will have to reunite their 17-year-old prodigy with a 28-year-old “veteran” if they hope to get their first championship.
And, let’s be honest: without any context, this idea sounds … a bit bad? Or at least not particularly inspired? But we would have said the same thing about “a high school journalist makes a documentary about someone who draws cocks in a lot of cars ”, and he would have been catastrophically wrong, so that Yacenda and Perrault have definitely gained a great deal of the benefit of the doubt we have when it comes to knowing how to make a premise like this come to life.
There is still no word when Players could land on Paramount Plus.