The Adventures of Reemo Green

Series · Comedy · Sci-Fi TV-14 2 Episodes · ~18 min English

Series Review

Written by Kineograph

A gold-helmeted drifter steals a spaceship, accidentally kidnaps its robot, and crosses a planet to ask the wisest being in the universe how to kill a god — then spends his one question on something else entirely.

A Pilot Who Stole the Ship

The series opens mid-argument in a cockpit. Reemo Green — a robed figure whose entire head is a smooth golden orb — has stolen a “master ship” and, in the process, accidentally kidnapped its robot, XD310. His first act as captain is to rename the robot Dan, because XD310 is “too much”. The robot’s deadpan misery against Reemo’s total confidence is the show’s engine, and it fires from the first exchange: Reemo has never crashed a ship, he announces, seconds before the alarms start. “Excellent first crash, sir,” says Dan, from the wreckage of Indula.

The Long Way Round

Reemo has a mission: reach the Council, the wisdom of the universe, and learn how to kill the ruler of the Zaronians — the revenge he calls his life’s purpose. What follows is a quest that plays like a tall tale told by a bartender, because it literally is one. The route she gives him — out of the desert, through the gagging forest of D’Doro, over the unscalable wall, then the even more unscalable wall, past a giant ice monkey, through a canyon of creatures triggered by all five senses — is delivered in one breathless monologue and then actually walked, in a montage that keeps topping its own joke. It is silly, confident storytelling, and the photoreal worlds — desert outposts, crystal sellers, a temple valley that has stood for eons — sell every step of it.

One Question

The Council, when Reemo finally kneels before it, turns out to be a single serene being with a glowing orb for a head. “We’ve had to downsize,” it explains. “It’s been a rough year.” Reemo gets one question. And then the bounty hunter Verander walks in with Dan as a hostage, and the episode stops being a romp. What Reemo does with his one question — the question he crossed a planet and built his whole life around — is the moment this series goes from funny to unforgettable. I won’t spoil the words, but the droid’s quiet gratitude afterwards (“thank you for bringing me back from the complete piece of non-existence”) earns every second of the journey.

Episode 2: The Hundred-Year Heist

“Breaking Into Black Holes” is a different animal: a heist briefing, a century earlier. A resistance cell plans to steal the most powerful weapon in the universe from a Hive munitions facility on Torga V, where it sits inside a gravity vault that simulates a black hole. Their volunteer’s device can survive ten seconds inside. The catch, delivered in the episode’s coldest line of dialogue, is that ten seconds in the vault is a hundred years outside it — everyone the volunteer loves will be gone. Then the card: 100 YEARS LATER. And out steps a figure wearing a golden orb, while back in the present Dan remarks, almost as an aside, that the superweapon “parasitically leeches onto an organism”. Suddenly Reemo’s ridiculous golden head is the most interesting mystery on the site — and who, or what, walked out of that vault is the question the series leaves hanging.

The Craft

Neural Viz performs most of the voices himself (his own description says so), and the double act never sounds like one man talking to himself — Reemo’s breezy arrogance and Dan’s wounded politeness are fully separate people. The worlds are cinematic and consistent: the same cockpit, the same desert light, the same golden orb, from the crash to the temple. Episode 2’s briefing is talkier and more static than the pilot, and its final scene deliberately hands you more questions than answers — but as a pair, the two episodes are a masterclass in how much story eighteen minutes can hold.

Final Thoughts

Watch it for the banter; stay for the question he asks. The Adventures of Reemo Green is a comedy with a loaded secret at its centre, made with real craft and real warmth. If Neural Viz makes a third episode, I will be first in the queue.

Scene Breakdown

Episode 1 — “The Adventures of Reemo Green” (11:12). 0:00–1:33 — Cockpit banter: a stolen ship, a renamed robot (“We’re gonna go with Dan Droid”), and an “excellent first crash” on Indula. 1:33–3:27 — The captain’s log gag, a parting of ways that doesn’t take, and the road to the outpost. 3:55–6:42 — The bartender’s impossible directions, and the compressed journey: gagging forest, unscalable walls, ice monkey, canyon. 6:43–10:35 — The Council (“We’ve had to downsize”), Verander’s ambush, and the question Reemo actually asks. 10:35–11:12 — Dan restored; “So, Captain, where are we heading to next?”

Episode 2 — “Breaking Into Black Holes” (6:44). 0:00–1:26 — Wordless infiltration of the Hive munitions facility on Torga V. 1:26–5:05 — The briefing: a weapon the Hive keeps as insurance against the Zaronians, a gravity vault, and the hundred-year price of ten seconds inside. 5:05–5:33 — “100 YEARS LATER”: the volunteer emerges wearing the orb. 5:33–6:44 — Back in the present cockpit, where a throwaway line about the weapon “parasitically leeching onto an organism” reframes everything — and the crash talk loops straight back to Episode 1.