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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

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.