Titus Welliver's R-Rated DC Return Is Officially One Of HBO Max's Biggest Shows
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Titus Welliver is no stranger to the great comic book genre in the world of television and film. Ever since he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise as Agent Felix Blake in Marvel Studios' Item 47, before a handful of recurring guest spots on Agents of SHIELD seasons 1-3, the Bosch lead has also crossed over to the DC brand numerous times. While the star has taken on numerous dramas over the last few years, one of Welliver's latest projects is now taking him back to the superhero genre.
Adult Swim recently launched their latest DC animated series, Get Jiro!, based on the late Anthony Bourdain's Vertigo Comics property, with the first two episodes having premiered on Sunday, October 4. Starring Brian Tee as the titular character, the show takes place in Los Angeles in the near future, depicting it as a post-apocalyptic era. In this timeline, food dictates class and wealth, as Jiro begins going after restaurant-goers who are committing murder just to get reservations. The adaptation comes from Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, and is the latest project from the famous comic book publisher on Adult Swim, joining My Adventures with Superman, which finished its season 3 run on August 16.
Titus Welliver's Newest DC Project Has Quietly Found A Global Audience
Signal Received · Deep Space Broadcast The Ultimate Sci-Fi TV Trivia Quiz “The truth is out there.”
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The most famous opening monologue in TV sci-fi begins: “Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the ___.” Complete the line from the original 1966 Star Trek series.
✓ Engage! William Shatner’s iconic opening — “Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before” — has become one of the most quoted passages in all television. Later Trek series would adapt it, but the Enterprise is the one that started it all.
✗ Subspace interference! The answer is Starship Enterprise. USS Voyager belongs to the 1995–2001 series, the Defiant to Deep Space Nine, and the Discovery to the modern 2017 series. It’s the original Enterprise, captained by James T. Kirk, that William Shatner immortalized in that final-frontier monologue.
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The Doctor’s time machine is disguised as a 1960s British police box and is famously bigger on the inside than the outside. What is the acronym it’s known by?
✓ Allons-y! TARDIS stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space. The name was coined by the Doctor’s granddaughter Susan in the very first 1963 episode. The police-box shape is the result of its chameleon circuit getting stuck while parked in 1963 London — and it’s stayed that way for sixty-plus years.
✗ Chronal distortion! The answer is TARDIS — Time And Relative Dimension In Space. The other options are invented distractors. The TARDIS first appeared in 1963 and has followed every regeneration of the Doctor since, though its interior famously redesigns itself whenever the showrunners want a fresh look.
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The acclaimed 2004 Battlestar Galactica reboot — considered one of the greatest sci-fi TV shows ever made — was developed by which writer-producer, a veteran of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine?
✓ So say we all! Ronald D. Moore developed the modern Battlestar Galactica, reimagining Glen A. Larson’s 1978 original as a gritty, post-9/11 political allegory. Moore had cut his teeth writing many of TNG and DS9’s best episodes. His BSG aired 2004–2009 and tackled terrorism, torture, faith, and what it means to be human.
✗ Frak! The answer is Ronald D. Moore. J. Michael Straczynski created Babylon 5, David Eick was Moore’s co-executive-producer on BSG, and Glen A. Larson created the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica. Moore took Larson’s cheesy space opera and rebuilt it into a Peabody Award-winning meditation on war and morality.
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Netflix’s ’80s-drenched sci-fi hit Stranger Things is set in a small American town sitting above a secret government lab that tore a hole into the “Upside Down.” What is the town called?
✓ Friends don’t lie! Hawkins, Indiana is the fictional town the Duffer Brothers invented for Stranger Things — home to Hawkins National Laboratory, where Dr. Brenner’s MKUltra-style experiments opened a rift into the Upside Down. The show is actually filmed in Jackson, Georgia, but the Hawkins sign is now an iconic TV landmark.
✗ The Upside Down! The answer is Hawkins, Indiana. Derry is Stephen King’s fictional town from IT, Castle Rock is another King town (and an anthology series), and Springwood is from A Nightmare on Elm Street. The Duffer Brothers deliberately evoked King’s small-town horror tradition when creating Hawkins.
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In The X-Files, Fox Mulder has a famous poster hanging in his FBI basement office — a UFO photograph with a three-word tagline beneath it. What does the tagline say?
✓ The truth is out there! “I Want To Believe” sits below a blurry UFO photo on the poster that hangs in Mulder’s basement office throughout the series. The line became so associated with the show that it was used as the title of the 2008 feature film, The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
✗ File that one away! The answer is “I Want To Believe.” “Trust No One,” “Deny Everything,” and “The Truth Is Out There” are all iconic X-Files taglines — but it’s “I Want To Believe” that’s literally printed on the UFO poster in Mulder’s office, and which became the title of the franchise’s 2008 movie.
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Apple TV+’s Severance — about office workers whose memories are surgically divided between their work and personal lives — was created by a first-time showrunner who used to be a customer service rep. Who is he?
✓ Praise Kier! Dan Erickson wrote the Severance pilot while working soul-crushing office jobs — literally daydreaming about splitting his mind so the “work-him” would suffer instead. Ben Stiller came on as executive producer and directed most episodes, but Erickson is the creator whose personal ennui gave us Lumon Industries.
✗ Outie interference! The answer is Dan Erickson. Damon Lindelof created Lost, The Leftovers, and Watchmen; Ben Stiller is Severance’s executive producer and primary director (but not its creator); Jonathan Nolan created Westworld and Person of Interest. Erickson’s script sat on the Black List for years before Stiller championed it.
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In 2018, Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror released a groundbreaking feature-length episode that let viewers make choose-your-own-adventure style decisions for the protagonist. What was it called?
✓ Interactive transmission received! Bandersnatch followed young programmer Stefan as he adapted a choose-your-own-adventure novel in 1984. Viewers could make choices at key moments, branching the story into multiple endings. It was Netflix’s most ambitious interactive experiment — and the meta commentary on viewer control remains quintessential Black Mirror.
✗ Null pointer! The answer is Bandersnatch. USS Callister is the Emmy-winning Star Trek riff, San Junipero is the beloved ’80s romance episode, and Metalhead is the black-and-white robot-dog thriller. All are Black Mirror, but only Bandersnatch was the interactive choose-your-own-adventure special that launched in December 2018.
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Joss Whedon’s space-western Firefly became a legendary cult classic after Fox infamously cancelled it — airing episodes out of order, burying the pilot, and pulling the plug. How many episodes aired on Fox before cancellation?
✓ Shiny! Only 11 of the 14 produced Firefly episodes aired on Fox in late 2002 before the network pulled the plug. The remaining three (including the two-hour pilot “Serenity”) first aired in proper order on the Sci-Fi Channel and eventually on DVD. Fan outcry led to the 2005 film Serenity — a rare cinematic rescue for a cancelled series.
✗ Fox strikes again! The answer is 11. Fourteen episodes were actually filmed, but Fox only aired 11 before cancellation, and they aired them out of order with the pilot held until last. The complete set finally aired on Sci-Fi Channel and DVD, and the fan-driven “Browncoats” campaign eventually convinced Universal to greenlight Serenity.
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Following the airing of Get Jiro! episodes 1-2, the R-rated animated DC entry has already started to find its audience worldwide, as the series is also getting released on HBO Max, including in the United States, and is now climbing into the Top 10 Overall for this week. The series, which features Welliver voicing Bob, a rival chief warlord, has become a hit for the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streaming platform, as it has climbed to #3 in #3 in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, as well as #5 in Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine.
For HBO Max's Top 10 TV shows of the week, the animated DC show is also holding the #2 spot in #2 in Bahamas, Belize, Haiti, #4 in Brazil, #5 in Albania, Moldova, North Macedonia, #6 in Portugal, Italy, #7 in Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Montenegro, and Slovenia. In addition to that, subscribers in Germany have brought it to #8, as well as #9 in Spain and Switzerland, while sitting at #10 in England. As of writing, Get Jiro! season 1 is still holding its stellar Rotten Tomatoes score of 89%.
Is Get Jiro! Season 2 Happening?
Get Jiro!, which marks Welliver's fourth DC property he has been part of, after playing Lex Luthor in live-action in the Titans season 4 premiere while voicing Carmine Falcone in Batman: The Long Halloween and Rorschach in Watchmen, has yet to be renewed for season 2. As of writing, there are still at least four more episodes to air, and it will all depend on how the series performs for both Adult Swim and HBO Max.
Given that Warner Bros. Discovery is set to be acquired by Paramount, which will bring the two studios together to become Skydance, time will tell if the merger will potentially delay any renewals. If that is the case, Get Jiro! wouldn't be the only DC TV project that is waiting to learn its fate, as it's not known yet if HBO's Lanterns, Prime Video's Batman: Caped Crusader, and My Adventures with Superman will be picked up for more episodes.
Get Jiro! season 1 airs new episodes on Adult Swim on Sundays at midnight, along with releases on HBO Max.
- Release Date
- October 4, 2026
- Network
- Adult Swim
- Directors
- Cecilia Aranovich, Sam Liu, Milo Neuman
Cast
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Brian Tee
Jiro (voice)
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Tessa Inez
Cam (voice)
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Rose (voice)
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Courtney Taylor
Cynda Lynn (voice)
- Writers
- Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka
- Creator(s)
- Alessandro Tanaka, Brian Gatewood
- Executive Producer(s)
- Alessandro Tanaka, Brian Gatewood, Jordan Blum, Sam Register
- Producers
- Joann Estoesta
- Seasons
- 1
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