Cartoon Network’s Peabody Award-winning series Steven Universe earned a huge following in the 2010s for its unusual mix of rich and complicated space opera with tight stories about life in a small beachside town, along with its commitment to pushing the boundaries of queer representation in children’s television. After concluding its run with a movie, a limited series tied up loose ends and examined what life was like after the main conflict was resolved. Now, creator Rebecca Sugar is returning to that world with Steven: Universe Lars of the Stars, a sequel series in development for Prime Video.
Lars Barriga (Matthew Moy) had quite a journey on Steven Universe. An insecure punk kid who worked at Big Donut in Beach City, his primary concerns were originally maybe having a crush on his coworker and trying to impress the cool kids in town. Then he wound up being abducted alongside the show’s
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