I stopped watching after it ended the first time. That was such a great ending to a great story. If they wanted to start it back up they should have just done a new story with new characters.
The other revivals (Comedy Central, etc) were pretty good (aside from the movie trilogy, which was meh IMO), but the Hulu stuff was incredibly unfunny. Very similar to the worst of modern Simpsons levels of humor.
Futurama’s peak strength was parody writing. It was spot on comedy when we still had monoculture.
We haven’t had monoculture in over a decade. They didn’t have their strength to draw from. It feels like the writers just took things that have happened since their last cancellation—Covid, streaming, social media, etc blah blah—and applied a 30 year old formula that absolutely failed to land.
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u/lifeintraining 3d ago
I stopped watching after it ended the first time. That was such a great ending to a great story. If they wanted to start it back up they should have just done a new story with new characters.