Aridity

Aridity is an American animated police procedural comedy-drama web series, created by Edgar Ivanov, Chelsea Liu, Peter Knudsen and Jasper Montoya. The series debuted on YouTube, later appearing on Netflix.

The series tells of four policemen in the rural arid town of Castillo, New Mexico, as well as their lives, duties, and various skirmishes and situations they get into and have to solve.

Premise
Set in the world of anthropomorphic animals, the series takes place in the rural arid town of Castillo, New Mexico, somewhere in the.

The series mainly focuses on Deputy Jesse Martinez, a new member of Castillo's sheriff's department and a really timid guy, who has to yet build the relationships with his colleagues, and show that he is worthy as a policeman.

Castillo policemen

 * Deputy Jesse Martinez (voiced by TBA) - a cat and a shy young policeman, a new member of Castillo's sheriff's department. He has some self-esteem issues, but his good qualities - them being bravery, kindness and altruism - are often remarked by other people.
 * Sheriff Yuma McKinley (voiced by TBA) - a tall . She is often relaxed and jokes around when there's no calls, but whenever the situation requires it, she can be very serious.
 * Deputy Paige Freeland (voiced by TBA) - a snarky, but friendly . She has been friends with Sheriff McKinley for some time already. She becomes Jesse's partner after a while.
 * Deputy Andrew "Drew" Forrester (voiced by TBA) - a quiet and usually serious, who is often the voice of reason. He is skilled in using a rifle. Later on, he turns out to be asexual.

Castillo clinic

 * Dr. Alec Tempest (voiced by TBA) - a dog and the chief of medicine in the Castillo Medical Center. He is a relaxed person, deeply in love with his profession, what shows an empathic and kind personality of his. His namesake is Dr. Bruce Tempest, a doctor from New Mexico who was the first to notice the in the region.

Castillo school

 * Maria Bennally (voiced by TBA) - a coyote and a local teacher.
 * Erin Whitehawk (voiced by TBA) - a tomboy coyote and a local highschooler. She often hangs out and entertains students from the elementary school.

Influences
One of the influences for the series was, which, according to the authors, helped them create a show that handles social issues with humor.

Castillo's police department was partially modeled after the one in. The town itself was largely based on the towns of, and.

Addressing social issues
While the series acts as a comedy, it also tells of certain social issues present in both the American society as a whole, and in the groups of Native Americans and residents of the region given.

The series reviews the issues related to mental issues, racism, sexuality, poverty, unemployment, violence, people's relation to police, social stigma, alcoholism and drug addictions, as well as the gradual loss of uniqueness of the Natives.

The theme of social stigma, for example, is present in the episode "(TBA)", where an outbreak of a strange disease starts in the region, prompting the media to call it with names, which soon cause stigma.