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.