Griffin Newman & Valorie Curry On Amazon’s ‘The Tick’ [VIDEO EXCLUSIVE]

Amazon’s newest original series, The Tick, hits the streaming service on Aug. 25. The show follows Arthur Everest (Griffin Newman) as he uncovers that his city is owned by a super villain. While connecting the dots, he comes across The Tick, a relentlessly optimistic super hero who promises to take a reluctant Arthur under his wing.

Newman and his co-star Valorie Curry, who plays Arthur’s sister Dot, recently sat down with uInterview founder Erik Meers to discuss the first season of The Tick.

One of the show’s central conflicts is that the audience is unsure if Arthur is simply experiencing delusions – i.e., a super villain controlling his city and a blue man-sized tick fighting crime – or if it’s all real. But eventually, Arthur comes to believe that what he is seeing and experiencing is the truth.

“There’s this thing our mom on the show says, which is, ‘What’s good is great.’ You don’t need to aim for great, if your good, that’s good enough,” Newman told uInterview exclusively. “And I think this show is the arc of Arthur figuring out how he can become great and having to convince everyone around him that he knows what he’s doing and that he’s not going to die in the process.”

Curry plays Arthur’s sister, who had to become the Everest family’s caretaker while Arthur was ill and their mother despondent. But now what Arthur has taken to becoming a superhero himself, Dot needs to find herself.

“She’s really spent her entire adult life anchoring her life around him and putting, not just grief, but her ambitions on the back burner,” Curry said. “So for her, this season is really a journey of self discovery, in that, her life has been defined by Arthur needing her and if he possibly doesn’t need her anymore, what is she living for and what has she avoided dealing with, which maybe she doesn’t want to look at.”

The Tick, according to Curry and Newman, although a comedy, blends in a little drama that will hopefully get audiences to become more attached to the characters.

“This show is like a sampler platter. You get all of these different amazing flavors that hopefully add up together to something greater than the parts,” said Newman.

Said Curry of a dramatic scene in the pilot episode, “To have permission to do that on a show like this was really wonderful and freeing.”

The Tick is available to stream exclusively for Amazon Prime members on August 25.