The series will premiere Friday, May 12 on Netflix.
See the character posters below.
Its an opportunity to learn from humanitys past mistakes and get things right this time.

(Clockwise from L-R) Nat Faxon, Chrissy Teigen, Tina Fey, Sam Richardson, Dana Carvey and Phil LaMarrGetty Images
Or make the same mistakes all over again.
Probably the second one.
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Teigen is Lucy Suwan.

Nat Faxon as Matty Mulligan/Courtesy of Netflix
Lucy had a whirlwind romance with Matty during the attack, so shes now the de facto First Lady.
Except they just met and it turns out they have nothing in common.
Fey portrays Dr. Farrah Braun, a Military super-scientist and single mom.
Richardson plays Simon Prioleau.
Its not working, though.
No one is buying the fedora.
Carvey is Senator Cartwright LaMarr.
He now spends his days trying not to break things and remembering snippets of his human past.
Was he a musician?!
Edebiri plays General Scarpaccio/Jayson Moody.
Radcliffe is King Jeremy.
And when he realizes hes the last surviving British citizen, he declares himself King.
Chieng portrays Johnny Zhao, a Hong Kong billionaire who spent the attack partying with models on his yacht.