An Afrofuturistic story enclosed within an old-timey radio show, Adventures in New America focuses on two characters in New America: IA Winter, a black man “who can’t get arrested to save his life (literally)” and Simon Carr (voiced by Paige Gilbert), a black lesbian who decides to help him and herself survive New New York. Taking place a few years in the future, IA and Simon go on a bunch of heists and missions to pay for IA’s treatment and encounter dangers capitalistic, colonialist and supernatural along the way. There’s horror and comedy, usually at the same time; musical numbers; and trap-door situations where you think you’re safe but soon you drop down into something much deeper and darker than expected.
Adventures in New America is produced by the creators of Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead, which stars Jasika Nicole as a black lesbian who goes on a cross-country supernatural adventure after learning her wife isn’t dead as she had previously…
