New Delhi, June 8 -- Among Us is a genuinely fun watch, and smarter than it has any right to be.

Created by Owen Dennis (of Infinity Train fame) and produced by CBS Studios and Titmouse, the series takes the deceptively simple premise of the 2018 multiplayer game and stretches it into something that functions, rather brilliantly, as a ten-episode detective thriller.

The setup will be familiar to anyone who has spent time shrieking accusations at friends online: a crew of eccentric, monochromatic crewmates aboard a ship transporting junk across the galaxy must root out an Impostor in their midst before they fall victim to its villainous designs.

Where the show complicates things is in making the Impostor not merely a fellow crewmate wit...