LOS ANGELES — Breathe in. Breathe out. Imagine a world in which anxiety is cured.
In the year 14,002 in the Ergulon galaxy, two alien surgeons will face the possibility of eradicating anxiety, but at what price?
“The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy” follows Dr. Sleech and Dr. Klak as they tackle anxiety-eating parasites, illegal time loops and deep-space STIs. And as the best friends take on a groundbreaking case, existence itself is put on jeopardy.
Cirocco Dunlap, who serves as showrunner, writer and executive producer, told Spectrum News the show came from personal experience as she, like most of us, experienced anxiety.
“My first therapist told me to take anxiety medication, and I started crying and said no. My second therapist told me to start anxiety meds, and I said OK. It changed my life. I wrote the show. It was not about anxiety to begin with and then slowly — as it developed — it was, of course, a story I wanted to tell and needed to tell. It came out naturally in a way that felt funny, and at times intense, at times light. It was a really great experience to write it out,” she said.
Maya Rudolph, who plays Dr. Vlam and executive produces the show, said that people should discuss anxiety more.
“It’s not taboo. Let’s talk about it. You are not a weirdo just cause you got it. Also, who doesn’t have it?” she said.
“We are all just kinda struggling with it. With that and depression and some sort of mental health illness, it is very hard to live in this world without it. The sooner we all just kinda are like this is how we are … that’s cool, the easier it will be for all of us to walk around,” said Dunlap.
The series also stars Emmy Award nominee Natasha Lyonne, Academy Award nominee Stephanie Hsu, Keke Palmer, Emmy Award winner Kieran Culkin and Grammy winner Sam Smith.
All eight episodes are now available on Prime Video.
Click the link above to watch the full interview.
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