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.

  • Lemmy is Just Reddit 2.0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I liked it, there were a handful of old-style Futurama jokes that I appreciated.

    I was and still am concerned about all the “look at all the crazy new things in our culture like TikTok and NFTs!” that’s not gonna be evergreen in 20 more years, but I dig it so far.

    • beefcat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      The early seasons were full of jokes that were “of their time”. I don’t think this is inherently bad. The whole schtick of the show has been to satirize modern life by presenting a wackier futuristic cartoon version of it.