When watching a show a while after it’s released you can sometimes tell when a show was canceled because a season will end on a big (occasionally spiteful) event.
The following season after it’s picked back up occasionally stumbles a bit but I’m wondering what examples can you think of that were especially bad?
i’ll say it: futurama
Besides mentions of Hulu appearing in the show (which combined with Solar Opposite’s Hulu episode which makes me wonder if it’s a requirement by Hulu) why do you say that?
new season ep 1… did you watch it? matt is stuck in the past. just like the simpsons it has lost touch on all levels.
in simpsons matt failed to adress changes like mobile phones , tablets or just the fact that he owns a house, two cars, two kids and has one job pays the bills. insane. matt felt that and tried make them use a cellphone once in a while but geez this feels outdated and so does futurama this year. not one of the jokes was pointing the viewer to anything new. south park has a hard time these days aswell but did not fail like futurama 2023.
solar opposites is nice I agree. Final Space was better. And again shit wins: lower decks.
I’m with you on all of that. Except for South Park. It doesn’t really fit the topic, and also, I am constantly shocked by how after all these years, it can still seem so relevant, and such quick turnaround time on mocking some large social issues that should be made fun of. To me it’s stayed more relevant that SNL. Sure it has times where it tries too hard, or gets formulaic
SP is still relevant but when this other co writer joined and the whole trump shit went down it kinda lost much of its appeal. i am not even sure if it is a regular show or not anymore…do they plan put out weekly episodes again some time soon?
IIRC the Trump stuff was even more of a scramble than South Park usually is, because they were just assuming Hilary would win and had planned out a bunch of stuff around that, so when Trump won they had to dump everything and quickly do something with that.
Probably the closest we’ll ever see to a cartoon being produced live I think!
Not really they just release specials every once in a while.
On August 5, 2021, Comedy Central announced that Parker and Stone signed a $900 million deal for extending the series to 30 seasons through 2027.[14] The deal also included a series of 14 films for Paramount+, which are released twice per year.[15] Parker and Stone later denied that the projects were films, and clarified that it was ViacomCBS (currently Paramount Global) which decided to advertise them as such.[16] Paramount+ advertises the projects as “exclusive events”, and they are generally accepted to be television specials.[17] - Wiki
South park lost it’s relevance when it moved to Paramount. By doing so it vanished from the mainstream. It’s not even available where I live so the only way for me to watch it is by pirating
In regards to Simpsons, I’d say that expecting that but not any other sign of passing time is a bit ridiculous. They’re literally stuck in time. They do not age. Why expect anything else?
But then they also do things like flashback episodes that show Homer & Marge as teenagers in the 90s when they previously had them meet in the 70s because the show’s so damn old now.
But also, it’s a cartoon so it’s not like it’s obligated to make sense anyway. Just do whatever I guess lol.
I liked the new season so far. But like anything, searching for nostalgia is never going to work. It’ll never hit like it did when you were 20 years younger and watching the show for the first time
did you watch solar opposites or final space? it is the feeling. it can be done. but maybe not by matt anymore.
Absolutely watched both. Enjoyed both of them a lot. Wasn’t quite the same, still, great shows
lemmy know if you find shows of a similar magnitude…always interested.
Here’s hoping!
I just watched episodes three and four (with the Bitcoin and being unable to watch a movie without using your phone jokes) and think I get what you mean now.
South park made a massive mistake moving to Paramount. The show is essentially dead now to me because it’s unavailable to stream in Canada unless you pirate it. They literally cut off their life long fans, so as far as I’m concerned south park is finished
dude if you stumble upon any good and worthy substitute for SP let me know.
I regularly watch Futurama and the other revival episodes were pretty good, but this time around it’s just not funny. The jokes don’t land.
I don’t say this as someone who wants the nostalgia, again, I regularly laugh at the other episodes, and this season is just meh through and through
I was thinking the same thing. It’s had two awkward revivals now.
They show got a clean, decisive, clear cut, happy ending. Why the fuck would they keep going after that? Just make a new show, even a spin-off in the same universe, but there’s no point to bringing back the same characters