Helluva Boss Season 3 Part 1 Episodes 1-3 already premiered on October 14th, and the fandom is already excited to see what is coming next. For those unacquainted, this series is a spin-off of Hazbin Hotel, also created by Vivienne “VivziePop” Medrano. However, Helluva Boss centers on the misadventures of the employees of I.M.P., a company in Hell that offers hitman services in the realm of the living. Both series take place in the same universe.
CGMagazine had the special opportunity to speak with main characters, Brandon Rogers (Blitzo) and Richard Horvitz (Moxxie). After missing them earlier this year at LVL UP Expo and Fan Expo Canada, I finally had a chance to chat with them at SCAD AnimationFest 2026. Through the jokes and antics, we discussed what it was like to record this series through a pandemic, the emotional journey Brandon and Richard have experienced with Helluva Boss, and a little teaser for what is to come for the rest of Helluva Boss Season 3.
Clearly, there is some global fandom around the Hellaverse because I have seen you all at so many conventions and meetups. What is it about the fandom that inspires you to keep bringing these characters to life?
Brandon Rogers: First of all, people who notice the amount of detail that our fans notice in our show really makes it feel like any drop of effort we put into this show is not wasted. Everything’s being appreciated. Everything is being gobbled up, and I’m a fan of the show too, so it’s nice feeling like I’m justified in how much I love it because other people do too.
Richard Horvitz: I also think because of the way we started on YouTube, there’s a kind of feeling of proprietorship on behalf of the fans because they’ve been so intimately involved since Viv (Vivienne “VivziePop” Medrano) first started that they feel like they’re part of the story as well. So when we do get to hit the road and meet the fans, they feel like they know the characters. In fact, I would say the characters are way more important to them than we are.
Brandon Rogers: Yeah, we’re just the vessel that brings them what they love and also just people love petting me and Richard a lot in person. We feel better than we sound. So if you like how we sound, you should touch us…Oh god, don’t touch us! Please don’t touch us!
[Everyone in the room erupts with laughter]
Yeah, I don’t know about advertising that one! But talking about starting off independently on YouTube is a big thing. I think what’s cool about SCAD is how they encourage the students to explore multiple avenues of going independent and working for a bigger [animation] company.
Richard Horvitz: Yeah, I think that right now independent animation is where things are. I think that we’ve seen a lot of the traditional companies not doing much production, especially in Los Angeles right now. But I think that there’s so many more opportunities in independent animation right now that allow you to not only garner a huge following online, like Viv did before any of the shows ever came out.
It also allows for your own marketing, your own socials, your own, and you can sell your own product lines and start funding your projects. It’s very similar to the days when we went from big-budget films at the studios to the independent film market, which became really big.
Brandon Rogers: When I hear something is independent, I know it’s made with love. Or when I hear the series is independently made, I know that someone stayed up a little bit later to composite it or put a little bit more love into the soundtrack.
Richard Horvitz: I love that.
Brandon Rogers: I’m an independent creator, and when I see shows like Helluva [Boss], shows where I could tell they didn’t need to go the extra mile with this scene; they didn’t need to go this hard with this sequence or this song; it’s hard to find that in a lot of the Hollywood factory.
Richard Horvitz: I find when we work together, because Brandon and I both work behind the scenes on the shows as well, that there’s not the pressure that there is in some of the big studio projects. It allows us to have more fun and freedom to play, and that shows up in the work.
Brandon Rogers: Yeah, our [voice] booth is actually a ball pit, and we have to be very still when we record—
Richard Horvitz: But they’re golf balls. It hurts, but there’s got to be a little pain. [Laughs]
Brandon Rogers: This is technically my first big animated series, so I don’t know [about bigger productions]. I’ve never been a part of a lot of the more machinery-type productions; I’ve only really known the sandbox. Most of what I’ve done has been independent, and it’s hard doing stuff that isn’t because then it’s like [a different situation]. I wish I got into it appreciating how much fun it was at the top because after starting with Helluva Boss, a lot of other products, I’m like, “Oh wow, I got in the playroom first.”
But having someone like Richard directing keeps that energy light and keeps it fun. I think when it’s fun, you’re less critical about yourself as a performer. Blitz is my first voice acting gig, and because of Richard, I didn’t feel this imposter syndrome. I did maybe the first couple days, but after I get to know this rhythm of fun and work hard, play hard energy, I was like, “Oh, okay, I’m part of the gang.”
Richard Horvitz: The other thing is, with someone like Brandon, what we do really well in the show is that we really highlight Brandon’s talents. What got Brandon to where he is, his improvability, because he improvs a lot in the booth. That’s the other thing we have the freedom to do. We’ll do one or two [line-reads] as written, and then we’ll say to Brandon, “Okay, now just say whatever you want or how you want to do it.” I would say at least 90% of the time your take that you came up with in the booth is what we end up using.
Brandon Rogers: I really don’t know. It’s hard to remember unless I go back and read a script of what was in the original copy, and same with you. There’s a handful. It’s nice because it’s collaborative when you’re in the booth and you think of something that might work better. No one’s there to stick to the script.
I’m curious, so are you all recording Helluva Boss together or is it still separate?
Brandon Rogers: Well, we’re all, we’re separate unless there’s a specific scene where our voices need to overlap. Richard and I had a couple of scenes where we had to hear both of our voices at once, so we had to be in the studio.
Richard Horvitz: Yeah, that’s coming up in this season, as a matter of fact.
Brandon Rogers: We pretty much record separately, but Richard’s with us all the time, so that there is a sense of—
Richard Horvitz: That’s really important because we don’t record in radio play fashion at all anymore. It’s a positive and a negative in two ways. It allowed us to start the show and get through almost our entire first season during COVID. We didn’t stop working during that time. We were able to send out recording rigs to everybody, but now, because a lot of our cast members are in New York and some in LA, we usually record one-on-one.
Brandon and I both live in Los Angeles, so we’re able to come in and work together some—a lot of the time— if there’s something we have to record together. My lines are usually: “Sir, yeah, sir, sir, sir, we can’t afford a billboard, sir.”
Brandon Rogers: I’d even record it at your house.
Richard Horvitz: Yes, you did. You did come to the house to record one day. That was nice.
Brandon Rogers: It was cool, and Richard has every role he’s ever played splattered across a giant wall. It was cool to see all of that.
Richard Horvitz: And Brandon has all our bone china in his house. [Laughs]
Brandon Rogers: And I stole your remote and you stole my remote, so I could turn on your TV in the middle of the night.
Richard Horvitz: That’s right.
And what kind of evolutions [or character progressions] can fans expect from this upcoming season of Helluva Boss? Also, would you say it’s more daunting or exciting knowing that the series will end with Season 4?
Brandon Rogers: I think it’s a beautiful thing knowing where your endpoint is because then the people can’t claim, “Oh well, they just didn’t know where they were going at this point.” We’ve known how this show ends since day one, so everything you see is something navigating us toward an intention. It’s very Vince Gilligan. It’s a proper full self-contained story, and we’re not just aimlessly laying out train tracks after the train’s already moving—hoping we get another season, another season, another season. So, no, we know where the show goes.
Richard Horvitz: Yeah, I’m looking forward to bingeing the show because I haven’t seen it yet, but I hear it’s really, really good.
Brandon Rogers: Don’t get your hopes up.
Richard Horvitz: Boy, that’s an interesting question. I think that from an emotional point of view, the idea of an ending is always really hard—especially for me. But the thing is, we’re not done. We’re the Hellaverse. While this story may be coming to its conclusion, I agree with Brandon. It’s nice to know where you’re going, as far as this particular season. I would say this is…I’m really excited for everyone to see this season. I think this is probably our best season so far.
Brandon Rogers: I think someone got the cows stoned because the stakes have never been higher.
Haha! Gotcha!
Brandon Rogers: But really, no, don’t laugh at that, because really the stakes are quite high. I think everything that we’ve loved about the first couple seasons, it’s just there’s so much more on the table here.
I think Season 3 is my favourite so far. We’ve watched—or at least I’ve seen the first half of it, and it feels like a piece of art I want to place on a mantle somewhere. As a voice actor, I’m away from it for so long until after we’re done with it. We don’t see it again for possibly years. So to watch it again, I felt like a fan. I know what’s going to happen, but I’m still on the edge of my seat wanting to see it unfold. So, I think people are really going to eat well, leave happy, or if they’re already home, they’re going to be at home happy with a big full gut of HP.
Richard Horvitz: And they’ll watch it over and over again because there’s a lot to see in the episodes. Brandon’s right, it’s nice because it has taken us a while to get the seasons out. When Brandon first started, he was in preschool, so it wasn’t really appropriate when we first started, but now he’s graduated middle school—so it’s perfect.
Brandon Rogers: [Laughs] You hear my voice crack at the beginning of Season 2. Yeah, that’s when I was going—
Richard Horvitz: Don’t tease Season 3. It’s called the Puberty Season.
Brandon Rogers: Yeah, that’s when I hit puberty. Well, puberty hit me. Let’s be honest. But I feel like the show is made by fans. We love the show just as much as the fans do. It’s in the best hands possible. As a fan of the show myself, I love what the other writers are doing with the storyline. And seeing it all play out, it’s like reading a book and then seeing the movie adaptation. It’s like, “Okay, I’ve read the script to see it unfold by people who care about it as much as me.” It’s beautiful.
Well, thank you again both for your time!
Helluva Boss Season 3 Episodes 1-5 are currently streaming on Prime Video.
