You can never just watch a whodunnit once. You have to go back and pick out all the clues you may have missed along the way and analyze the killer’s every move.
The same goes for the TV adaptation of Among Us, which presents a horrifying space-set murder mystery.
For creator Owen Dennis, “pretty much everything” changes when you rewatch the show knowing that (spoiler!) the Impostors are none other than Green (voiced by Elijah Wood) and Orange (voiced by Yvette Nicole Brown).
“I have seen people online be like, ‘I didn’t see any foreshadowing on any of these characters,’ and I’m just like, ‘Watch it again!'” Dennis told Mashable in a video interview. “If you watch it again, you’ll see that every single interaction that Green ever has has something upsetting behind it… Same with Orange, and I find that to be a joyful thing.”
What Easter eggs can you spot when you rewatch Among Us?
Upon rewatch, viewers will be able to catch even the smallest of details that hint at how Orange and especially Green (because let’s be real, he carried the Impostor team) pulled off their murders. Take a close look at where the pair sit. If they’re on a vent, you’ll spot a glimpse of parasitic alien tendrils creeping through the grates, revealing how the Impostors are able to pull off murders in different rooms.
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“I was afraid nobody was ever gonna find that stuff, but they did,” Dennis said of the vent tendrils. “I personally animated the tiniest little triangles of stuff in them, because I was like, ‘It can’t be that obvious.’ I don’t want anyone to see it on the first go, but I do want someone to see it on the second or third. That’s what I was hoping.”
Dennis notes that in the first episode, eagle-eyed viewers will also be able to see the exact moment Green and Orange get infected by the alien parasite. Later episodes feature further clues at the Impostors and their weaknesses.
“Somebody also found out that there’s a shadow on a wall that shows up when Black [(voiced by Liv Hewson)] steps into a salt circle. When they do, the shadow disappears because it didn’t want to deal with the salt,” Dennis said. “I’m just very happy people are going through, frame by frame, and trying to find what the differences are. There’s still a few that people haven’t found yet, which I think is fun.”
For Dennis, Among Us‘ rich rewatch factor is a testament to the larger team that built the show.
“I keep seeing people ask, ‘How did you figure out all these little clues?’ I’m like, ‘I didn’t!’ I thought of a few of them, but I work on a crew with 30 to 100 people at any given moment,” Dennis explained. “Because everybody else is working towards the same goal, everybody figures out how to make a billion different clues all over the show that no one catches until later.”
Among Us is now streaming on Paramount+.
