The acclaimed adult cartoon has been brought back from the dead – and not for the first time. It’s never going to recapture the brilliance of the original run, writes Louis Chilton, but the series’ stop-start history has made it a compelling record of changing cultural obsessions

I’ve just found this article about Futurama on The Independent, a UK newspaper. It comments on the changes in Futurama reflecting the changes in society in general.

  • thorbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The first episode was very meh. No moments where I actually really laughed. Not a great start to the reboot.

    • CaptPretentious@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      It wasn’t strong, but I felt like it was to rebase the whole thing. Because it retcons part of the previous end and sort of set expectations for going forward. Like drawing a line in the sand. This is Futurama and this is Hulu’s Futurama