Get ready to enter the bizarre world of Jordan Peele’s Weird City,
as EW got the exclusive first trailer for the six-part YouTube Originals series from the Oscar and Emmy-winning creator on Wednesday.
Michael Cera, Awkwafina, Rosario Dawson, Dylan O’Brien, Laverne Cox, The Walking Dead alum Steven Yeun, Modern Family star Ed O’Neil, and New Girl‘s Hannah Simone are among the cast recruited by Peele in the anthology series that will debut on YouTube Premium on Feb. 13.
Peele teamed up with Key and Peele writer Charlie Sanders to pen Weird City, which is set in a near-future metropolis called Weird. Each episode takes on present-day issues within a sci-fi comedic world, and the episodes are directed by Clueless filmmaker Amy Heckerling, Tricia Brock, and Adam Bernstein (each directing two episodes). Channeling a tone and world akin to Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone (the latter of which Peele is rebooting for CBS All Access this year), the Weird City trailer shows a high-tech, sleek urban town and an impoverished, unpolished neighborhood, divided by “The Line.”
Peele, who won an Oscar last year for his directorial debut, the searing social satire horror film Get Out, is fast becoming the busiest man in showbiz across film, television, and streaming platforms.
