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‘Futurama’ Review: New Episodes on Hulu Are Fun Fan Service, but Not Much More (And That’s OK) (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nothing will ever be worse than the cat episode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

All of their many, many reboot episodes have been nothing but meta in jokes. Episode 2 will be much more informative.