Premiere date and time: Monday, July 24 at 12am PT / 3am ET
Streaming service: US - Hulu, outside the US - Disney Plus
Lol at people reporting this post for misinformation. Futurama season numbers have always been ill-defined and now we just have to live with it. Be thankful you’re not in the UK where the DVD ordering made it even weirder.
There is new Futurama coming out. Be less cranky and more excited!
Oh no my boy what have they done to you Slurms
None of the flavour, all of the addiction!
He survived the mine collapse!
Was absolutely great. A little too much advertising for the platform we are actively watching it on, but an absolutely great return to form. Nothing felt forced and all the jokes landed well.
Loved the “scarry mirror”
I mostly liked it. The joke that got me the hardest was probably the robot standup comedian.
My only complaint really was that they pulled an “oh no fry is dead but wait he’s not” again which the writers really started to like to do in like every other episode after the first reboot, so I hope this doesn’t become a running theme in every episode.
I appreciated the fry dying call back, I feel like it had to have been self aware. Great reboot episode, an average Futurama episode, which is great!
The robot standup was the gag that convinced me “ah, Futurama is back”
i love how everyone was theorising about how the time skip would work and they fully gloss over it cause it doesn’t actually matter.
Good news everyone!
Binge no less than 10 episodes in a single sitting…got it.
That writer’s joke… oof. What a bad time for that joke to air
The one where the writers worked themselves to death and were replaced by a robot that ruined the show?
Which part was bad timing?
I think he’s referencing the Writer’s Guild strike which has been ongoing since May.
I believe they’re implying that those jokes are actually a perfect metaphor for what the writers are striking about.
I think you missed the joke, they were replaced by a robot.
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Season………8?
I guess it could be 8 or 11. Production season 8, broadcasted season 11.
https://theinfosphere.org/Season_8
If you do a search for “Futurama new season” you will get results with one or the other.
Huh, gotcha! I just saw 11 seasons on Hulu and was super confused
Varies on who you ask, but it looks like both agree on Season 8.
Wikipedia:
FOX: Seasons 1-4
Movies: Season 5
Comedy Central: Seasons 6-7
Hulu: Season 8
TheTVdb:
FOX: Seasons 1-5
Comedy Central: Seasons 6-7
Hulu: Season 8
That’s gonna fuck up downloading for me…n of the pirate persuation.
Hulu in the US says 11 seasons though: Hulu season list
Not saying who’s right or wrong, just might cause some confusion since many of the US watchers will see that!
my plex server is confused, and has been for a very long time.
mine just tool season 6 ep 14 and called it season 8 ep 1… which is sitting next to season 11 ep 1…
Sonarr grabbed the wrong episode for s8e1, and I unfortunately feel like that is going to continue
Gotta manually search and import for now.
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Yes but release groups don’t agree on season numbers.
That’s because the DVD collections didn’t agree with the aired order either.
I expected to be disappointed. I am so glad it was as good as ever
Good News! Kidnap the actors and get back here at once.
Best line in the ep
I generally don’t like meta episodes like the jokes in the show reflects on the real cast and writers. The self awerness usually ruin it for me. R&M did it well with the train episode, but I didn’t like it too much here. Not only that, the entire advertising if Hulu was a bit much.
I mean the idea is great, they tried to tell us, the audience, that times are changed and the world have changed with all the pc, me too, gender awerness, etc. And showed even a bit of concern. Also that they laugh at themselves with all the reboots and breaks. But I just didn’t like how it was served. I wish it was an interview and not an episode (they laughed about that as well with the "that’s too smart joke) and just write an episode like the know, without being afraid of all the pc and do on.
It wasn’t bad I still enjoyed it, but as I said it felt to meta and self aware for my taste.
Any one feels the same?
I’m starting to wonder what the fuck is going on at Hulu’s writing offices because Solar Opposites is also filled with jokes about Hulu.
And so did the Animaniacs reboot. I’m sensing a trend. Or maybe just a coincidence.
Actually I felt the opposite. I though it was alright. Just hope that’s not the writing style they’re going to carry on with. Later episodes of Rick and Morty leaned in to “meta” style writing way too much.
I though the Hulu bit was some sort of pisstake on streaming and how TV has so massively changed since it last aired. Again if they leave it there I’ll be happy.
Sorta, yeah. I also didn’t initially care much for the first episode on Comedy Central. I guess maybe the writers feel they have to do this sort of bridge episode.
I’m sure the future episodes will be better. I’m SUPER excited for Parasites Regained as Parasites Lost is my favorite episode.
I really hope you are right!
I’m 40% right!
It really wasn’t bad. I liked how they recalled the tear-squishing ending of the last season and picked up immediately in the same scene. I was a bit afraid they would something like “ohhhh, somehow futurama returned. <unspecified>” and yet they went with the setup the writers left 10 years ago and it worked.
I liked the meta aspect of it, it was very futurama and anyone who says its bad is wrong or prolly doesn’t remember or has never watched the show before. However it felt a bit much halfway through the episode. I think this should have been a short sequence of jokes or one 5 minutes long scene at most; did not have to make an entire episode around the show rebooting after a decade. Yes, we get it: it’s funny how it got cancelled and rebooted so many times by so many different networks.
Having said that though, I honestly expected worse and have high hopes for the remaining 19 episodes.
Only one episode?! Now I have to binge at least 9 older episodes!
I let it run through 9 espisodes of solar opposites to help hulu get engagement numbers
I’m not optimistic based on that first episode, did they have a hard time getting a writer’s room together this time?
The animation was extremely unambitious and the plot was, charitably, a minimum viable effort. I’ve loved this show for the majority of my life, but if you don’t have something to say, move on.
The comedy in this episode was the “Now that’s what I call jokes we missed 201x” and there wasn’t anything beyond it to latch onto. After the quality of that last finale, I just want to forget that this happened, so far.