Michael Schur’s career reads like a long-running in-joke that somehow became television canon. From sharpening punchlines at Saturday Night Live to shaping the cringe-humanity of The Office (yes, Mose included), to building civic religion in Parks and Recreation and sneaking moral philosophy into network prime time with The Good Place, Schur has spent two decades proving that earnestness and absurdity are not enemies.

Delivering those shows, sometimes overlapping is less a résumé and more a sustained flex in long-form comedy architecture. Now, he is migrating that sensibility into animation. Netflix just handed Schur a new sandbox, and this one is drawn in ink. 

Netflix is officially onboarding Dang!, giving a series order to a new adult animated comedy that brings together one of modern TV’s most reliable comedy architects and a circle of trusted collaborators. The project arrives with serious pedigree: Andrew Law, Stephanie Hsu, and Poppy Liu headline the series, which is created by Law, Matt Murray, and Mike Schur. 

Law, Murray, and Schur are no strangers to emotionally precise absurdity. Schur’s résumé stretches from Saturday Night Live to The Office, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and The Good Place, shows that mined big laughs from fragile egos and complicated loyalty. Dang! now extends that lineage into animation, with Law and Murray serving as writers and showrunners and Schur heavily involved in the creative process.

Schur also executive produces alongside Alan Yang and David Miner for 3Arts Entertainment. Animation powerhouse Titmouse. Universal Television produces, with Schur’s Fremulon banner operating under its overall deal there. Schur previously executive produced Netflix’s animated Q-Force, also with Universal Television and Titmouse. 

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Dang! joins Netflix’s upcoming adult animated slate including Strip Law, Mating Season, Alley Cats, plus second seasons of Haunted Hotel and Long Story Short. The streamer is clearly investing in creator-driven adult animation. But what is the premise? 

Picture this: two siblings thriving, or at least convincingly surviving in New York City on vibes, half-baked plans, and the kind of optimism that expires every 90 days. Then the older sister arrives. Not with judgment. Not with ultimatums. Just with her fully optimized LinkedIn aura and a sincere desire to “hang out.” That is the engine of Dang!, a brother (Andrew Law) and sister (Poppy Liu) whose beautifully messy rhythm is disrupted when their high-achieving overachiever of a sibling (Stephanie Hsu) inserts herself into their ecosystem. 

This is precisely the relational pressure cooker Mike Schur has built a career perfecting. On The Office, affection and ambition quietly sparred inside fluorescent lighting. On Parks and Recreation, love manifested as aggressive support. On The Good Place, self-worth became a cosmic puzzle. His characters are not villains; they are adults negotiating closeness badly.

In animation, those emotional negotiations can expand visually, insecurity can erupt into spectacle, passive aggression can take literal shape, and sibling rivalry can escalate without gravity holding it down. 

Schur moving into animation feels like an evolution. If live-action let him dissect workplaces, governments, and the afterlife, Dang! gives him a stylized New York and unlimited comedic physics. 

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