Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal Season 3 returns with a teaser trailer

He’s a zombie. I’m not gonna talk about how he became one. We’ll obviously reveal it in the show. I finished the [season 2] story and I was moving on. Then I started to have second thoughts. I just spent 20 episodes having people care, and then I kill off the main character, which is okay, but then, what are my options? The other stuff I was doing wasn’t feeling quite right, maybe because I hadn’t finished the story. And because we had that “Plague of Madness” episode in the first season where it was a zombie dinosaur, this is part of our world. It’s pulp. It’s the ultimate pulpy thing, the undead.

Primal is probably the purest 12-year-old Genndy thing I’ve ever done. It really speaks to me, and this is exactly the kind of show I would wanna watch. It’s what I’ve trained myself to do from Dexter until now, and it’s the best expression of that. So for me, boy, if the world supports it, I’d love to have Primal as the brand, and then every maybe one, two seasons it changes up. What I started to develop…I was like, creation is interesting to me. I was trying to figure something out [with] a female alien, Adam and Eve-type of thing: two creatures born into this world, and we’re with them and we are them, and they discover the world, how crazy it is with us. It didn’t click beyond that ’cause it felt like the first season of Primal. What’s different about it? I couldn’t find an answer for that. But the goal is to continually do this type of low-dialogue or no-dialogue storytelling that’s based on visuals. It’s hardcore and it’s pulpy and it’s got all those things going for it.