The Futurama season 8 revival trailer proves the sci-fi comedy is risking its audience goodwill with a strategy that has historically failed the show.
The Futurama revival is one of the most anticipated comedy shows of 2023, but the trailer has already proven that the series is taking a major risk upon its return. Futurama has a complicated history. Debuting in 1999, Futurama lasted for four seasons that aired from 1999 to 2002. The animated sci-fi comedy was then revived for four standalone feature-length movies between 2007 and 2008.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT This complicated history inevitably affected Futurama’s reception. While Futurama’s original revival ending was brilliant, it came at the end of two messy, divisive seasons. Like the revival movies, Futurama seasons 6 and 7 were inconsistent and featured some major misfires as well as some classic outings. This was nothing new for Futurama.
Futurama’s New Revival Shouldn’t Rely On Topical Gags The worst outings of the first Futurama revival, like the abhorred episode that inexplicably parodies Susan Boyle, were written in response to timely news stories. Already, the Futurama season 8 revival’s trailer features gags about COVID-19 and cryptocurrency, two timely topics that have largely faded from the news cycle in recent months.
Sometimes, this can be funny in and of itself. It is amusing to imagine that, even in the year 3000, Americans would still be voting for the cryogenically frozen head of Richard Nixon. However, this can just as often prove distracting and unfunny. In the aforementioned Susan Boyle episode, Futurama season 6, episode 3, “Attack of the Killer App,” the series parodied the iPhone with the eyePhone.
Futurama’s Best Episodes Are Timeless Sci-Fi Stories Futurama is at its best when the show is parodying sci-fi tropes, not summarizing the news like South Park. Futurama’s Dungeons and Dragons parody was the best adaptation the game received for years, thanks to its affection for the source material and its sharp eye for comedic detail. This sort of genre parody is an area Futurama has always been comfortable, whereas the show’s forays into topical satire have consistently been hit or miss .
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