Adult Swim series are often able to successfully mash together genres or find fresh takes on traditional ideas. In a broad sense, it doesn’t sound like there’s anything special about their latest animated series, Hot Streets. The program follows the law-abiding antics of the top secret “Hot Streets” division of the FBI. These unusual special agents keep the city safe from a wealth of supernatural entities, while they also clash with one another and bicker over the mundane.

Hot Streets comes from Brian Wysol, whose previous credits include Rick and Morty and Robot Chicken. Wysol channels those same chaotic, creative sensibilities here and he’s able to turn this supernatural FBI show into a series that immediately grabs the audience’s attention. Adult Swim is only acquiring more content and as a result it’s very easy to get lost in the shuffle between their many new programs, but Hot Streets feels like something that it’s worth making the time for. In honor of the show’s premiere, we touched base with its creator, Brian Wysol, to talk about how this twisted series came to life and where he hopes Hot Streets is headed.

DEN OF GEEK: How did the idea for Hot Streets come about and evolve through production? Have you had this idea for a long time?

BRIAN WYSOL: I had made a bunch of these shorts for Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab’s Channel 101. I had made two shorts in particular that I really liked. One was called Hot Cross Buns and another one was called We Solve the Crime. I was trying to come up with ideas for a TV show and I really liked the characters from We Solve the Crime, but I wanted to put them in more of a science fiction setting. So I kind of merged the sensibilities together between both of these smaller ideas.