Airing on Hulu (US) or Disney Plus (outside US) - Monday, August 14, 2023 at Eastern Time (ET) 03:00 a.m/ Pacific Time (PT) 12:00 a.m

  • HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Am I the only one who’s having trouble processing the fact that Leela and Nibbler casually murdered someone early in the episode? I mean Futurama has always shown a lot of dark or mean humor, but that really threw me. Especially when they followed it up with such a sentimental story. I don’t like it when shows try to mix the two. Either I’m watching the show with the mindset that nothing matters, or I’m getting invested in the characters and their arcs. I don’t know about other people, but I can’t do both at once.

  • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    I think that this reboot suffers by unconscious comparison to the best episodes of seasons past, and the competition from a lot of great animated shows that have come out in years since. Also, this time around, the writers are much more into sentiment than rapid-fire comedy. We already got hints of that by the conclusion of the Comedy Central run.

    Again, I was glad to have this episode, even if it’s not a classic. I feel it’s about on par with The Thief of Bag Head, to pick an example, and just about anything is better than The Beast with a Billion Backs.

    • MajinBlayze@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, the DUNEg reveal got a bit of a chuckle out of me, and the rest was… Fine. At least it didn’t actively undermine existing stories like the Kiff episode.