What do you think of the last 2 seasons of Futurama?
For me there are basically only 1-3 episodes in each season that I could consider somewhat funny. The jokes aren’t great anymore. Don’t know if it’s Disney ownership that made season 11,12 boring or the writers basically done all jokes already.
I think it was the wrong move to revive Futurama for these 2 last seasons. Last time it ended perfect with meanwhile. Or the ending in into the wild green yonder with the wormhole. Those two I consider great.
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I remember thinking the same things on the last renewal for Comedy Central. Now, over time they grew on me. There are still things I don’t like about them. There are whole episodes I skip, but there are also a lot of really good jokes that I didn’t catch the first time when my hopes were sky high.
Yes, they are not good
Yep, and if I remember correctly there are two more season to come :-(
The original series runs didn’t have that many “topical” episode plots. That’s become the go-to for the new seasons, and some of the topics are already too old to be topical in the way South Park has pulled off. Initial run topical episodes I can think of:
- A sort of Titanic parody
- Iron Chef parody
- Kidnappster, I guess
And I think those were still very light connections to current events and more parodies, compared to eyePhone, cryptocurrency, NFTs, fast fashion, antivax…
The VAs have been aging, too, and I feel like their hearts aren’t in it either. I’m going to assume this is a cash grab – Disney is good at extracting as much value out of IP in the short term; from their perspective, there’s only upside to cranking out some more Futurama.
Billy West is 72, and Katey Sagal is 70. They’re trying to voice 20yo’s. There is a limited amount of content we’re going to get out of them. I’m also sure the budget wasn’t was it once was for the VA’s or the writers.
I’m happy that we’re getting more content. Even mediocre content has gems in it. I do wish they’d stray away from current issues as it takes them so long to produce episodes at this burn rate that the content is a bit aged by the time we’re watching it.
They have a few good jokes here and there, but the overall plot for the majority of the episodes are just so lame. Even all the way up to season 10 things like NFTs crypto, and COVID would have been a one off joke not the entire plot of the episode. The eyePhone episode is subtle compared to how in your face these new seasons are with “current” events. And these new seasons are just fanfare mixed with topical bullshit. “Hey, remember all the characters from the show and their catch phrases? Now watch this episode about NFTs or an episode about the King of Space that feels like it was written for a completely different show.”
I’ve been falling asleep to Futurama for almost 15 years and I’ve seen every episode dozens of times (I’m literally watching season 3 in the background right now as I procrastinate on sleep). I even watch it when I’m working out. But when it reaches season 11, I just restart the series. Which is a shame because there are some decent episodes in the new seasons. But I’m kind of avoiding them like the plague after I watched half of season 12 and found myself more pissed off than entertained.
