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Futurama has accidentally become a fascinating document of social change (www.independent.co.uk)

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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.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 102 points 1 year ago

The satirical show has to change with the times. It's true. Some of the jokes do get dated. It's hard to write ageless satire. Satire only exists inside of a context. Which is time-bound.

I'm hopeful they're going to find a nice stride this season. The first episode seemed like a rehash of previous ideas. I'm looking forward to some deep satire and thinking coming forward

[-] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

I'm hoping it gets better. The last time they got canceled and came back they made a few jokes about it then moved on. This time it seemed to be a whole episode focused on the joke.

Are they still the most educated writing staff on TV? IIRC the original writing staff had a bunch of PhD peeps.

[-] Lith@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 year ago

I noticed the same thing! It seems like Hulu was really keen on making the first episode all about Hulu, which was annoying and a big red flag for me. Last time I remember they made a "we're back on a new channel" joke it was a bit more subtle and all of 15 seconds long. This new episode just felt like one long eternalized ad.

[-] jscummy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

To be fair the episode was centered around streaming so it makes sense to have some Hulu jokes. Although that might just be an excuse to include more Hulu jokes

[-] DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

There were several Hulu jokes in the Animaniacs reboot too. I wasn’t too put off by them. I guess its trendy these days. Netflix OC Black Mirror is full of meta.