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.

        • oldGregg@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          “I’m conservative but I will fight tooth and nail for his freedom of speech” is definitely not how american conservatives today are.

          That’s the same today.

          They say ‘I’m conservative BUT I respect free speech.’

          Not ‘I’m conservative SO I respect free speech.’

        • snooggums@kbin.social
          1·
          11 months ago

          It still works as a contrast to authoritarian regimes like Russia clamping down on dissent, and would require minimal rework if any.