cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/22813480
Release date: July 29 on Hulu.
The show keeps living! Glad to see it still around.
I wish it would! It’s basically decreasing the quality of its own obituary at this point
I thought the newest season was okay. Not as good as pre-season 6, which I expected, but better than a lot of the previous reboot episodes, which I didn’t expect.
Honestly my biggest gripe with the show as it stands is that a lot of the current events references (e.g. Amazon, Bitcoin) are a bit on the nose.
I love your link, but I want to clarify that I was quoting an Futurama opening line.
Did they replace the writers from season 11?
That is the only season I skip on my eternal rewatching loop for relaxing before bed.
There were a few good episodes, the Santa time travel one, the multiverse one, the mom Corp one. I liked the dune one even though it’s got mixed reactions.
That episode 9 was a fucking train wreck, however.
Yeah I don’t mind season 11 besides episode 9 I skip every time. Mostly ok but a few good ones.
Garbage. It was the one with multi parts, with the weird through line where Leela was trying to marry some handsome pig dude or some nonsense.
I think 11 would’ve been a lot better if it had come out in 2021. In 2023 all of the COVID themes were really played out.
Hopefully 12 wasn’t written 3 years ago.
That’s a weak defense of the season. The thing that made a lot of the classic episodes classics is that they are more or less timeless. If releasing the episode a year or two later means it’s not going to land well, then they should be rethinking the writing.
A great example is the iPhone episode. Its a bad episode because the premise was hardly interesting even when it was relevant, and it hasn’t aged well at all.
Am I crazy or is this season 8/9? Why is it called 12 here but 9 elsewhere?
EDIT: Apparently every season after 6 has had two halves, so if you count each half separately this is season 11, but otherwise this is the second half of season 8. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Futurama_episodes#Series_overview
So why is it 12? I’m confused.
It’s broadcast seasons vs how many purchases (“episode orders”) were made. Fox aired 5 but paid for 4 (held back some episodes), then the movies, Comedy Central aired across 4 seasons but made 2 episode orders, and now Hulu split their first order across 2 aired seasons.
Aired: 5 Fox, 1 movies, 4 CC, 2 Hulu -> season 12.
Orders: 4 Fox, 1 movies, 2 CC, 1 Hulu -> Season 8.
(Hulu made a second episode order already, but since that wouldn’t start until at least next year I didn’t count it. Assuming it’s split again, it’ll be seasons 13+14 or 9.)
I’m surprised it got another season. I’m not sure if there was any episode I’d call good (or even decent) from season 11. While I’ve watched the series multiple times, I don’t see myself watching this next season.
“I consumed the content multiple times but I don’t understand why they’d make more”
Homie you provided direct signal that you want more
Watching the series many times doesn’t mean they’ve watched the newest season many times. I myself have watched all od it many times over, minus the newest season which I wasn’t a fan of.
So am I not supposed to watch things I like?
For the new season it took me about a year to power through it, but I doubt I’ll ever watch it again. It doesn’t mean I don’t want to watch the older seasons though.
After the last laughable abomination of a season that was definitely not even close to what Futurama should be, bringing it back again to ruin it even further is a joke at this point.
Stop Simpsonizing shows by dragging them out over a billion seasons.
