After runs on Fox and Comedy Central, Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s animated sci-fi comedy leaps into the bold new frontier of streaming.
I’m really annoyed at the sentence “And That’s OK” as if I can’t form my own opinion on a topic. Yes, I’m triggered but it’s a useless choice of words for a title.
Yes, I’m triggered but it’s a useless choice of words for a title.
And that’s ok.
I liked it. I watched it at 2x speed.
I haven’t seen it yet, but I know that in the past when they’ve come back from cancellation, the first episode can been very meta and fan-servicey.
Leela: “What about us and our many fans?”
I watched it last night. You hit the nail on the head - it was just like the first episode after the other reboots. Not a bad thing, and I enjoyed it. Still felt like Futurama and the writers continue to respect the continuity of previous seasons, which is something I always appreciate.
The writing also felt pretty sharp still - the characters all acted in line with what I expect from them, and the Hulu/fulu futurama/all my circuits meta parody stuff worked really well.
Yeah first episode was alright, but nothing spectacular, a little too meta in my opinion. I feel like it didn’t have much emotion for the characters, but we’ll see as the next episodes are released
Personally, I feel the episode was subpar. Even when compared to the worst episodes of Comedy Central’s run of the show. That run was rife with Meta humor.
This episode just felt beneath even those IMO. It doesn’t help that it seemed like their was only one good joke that landed which was a 20th century version of binging. The rest fell flat or just gave a slight chuckle.
Overall for me, it was not a good start, but here is hoping the next episodes are better.
This was pretty much my take too. I went in wanting to love it, but it ultimately fell flat for me—even if I didn’t exactly hate it. I re-watched the first four seasons back when it was announced this was coming. So, maybe I did this to myself by setting the bar way too high. I’m still going to give it a chance, hoping the overreliance on meta humor was a one-off, but I’ll be tempering my expectations going forward.