• Disenchantment - We are most amused.
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https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/143062/39e15623-f330-4c96-92a0-d3480c4ce30b/image.png Created by Groening and featuring Simpsons/Futrama/Gravity Falls veteran Josh Weinstein as showrunner, Disenchantment is a medieval fantasy series set in a realm known as Dreamland. It's a pretty textbook medieval landscape, spiced up with the occasional fantasy race like elves (more Keebler than Tolkien) and the amphibious humanoids of the neighboring kingdom of Dankmire. Into this realm comes a heroine named Princess Teabeanie (Broad City's Abbi Jacobson), or "Bean" to everyone but her closest friends and worst enemies. She's joined by a plucky elf named Elfo (Ben and Kate's Nat Faxon) and a pint-sized demon trickster named Luci (man Seeking Woman's Eric Andre). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp_RnJcb8Ig
I watched the first episode of this and wasn't impressed at all. Does it get better?
7 episodes in, I'm still rather enjoying it!
I've been passively watching this while lying about sick and it's quite a bit better than I had written it off as when I first saw the trailer. Couple good gags, couple of recycled gags from earlier works - I really hope they're just callbacks to earlier works? Otherwise oof.
It's certainly weaker than both [classic] The Simpsons and Futurama, but there's about a gag or two per episode that can stifle a laugh or a smile. The story itself is kind of interesting, but the balance between comedy and dramatic storytelling can be awkward at times. I wouldn't write it off quite yet, perhaps a season 2 could help it get better.
I saw the first episode, and it was rediculously predictable. They seemed to go with the least possible effort on every gag and joke.
After watching Futurama I feel like I've had far more than enough of this exact style and humor
I'm very interested in season 2...
Yes.
Yeah this lays with a solid 7 for me. Its good enough, not great but not bad. Theres been some good laughs throughout the season. That cliff hanger tho fuck
What a weird show. It definitely felt like it took 7 episodes for it to figure out what it wanted to be. The last three episodes were great, though. I think with those awkward blips out of the way, season two will be pretty solid watching.
I have to echo what everyone else is saying, it's a very weird show. I'm not sure why it exists, really, because it's not really doing anything the Simpsons or Futurama hasn't already. I've enjoyed it for the most part though, it's just, the vast majority of the jokes are really oddly paced? They either linger too long or they're gags that you think are just gags but end up very plot relevant - it actually hasn't gotten too many laughs out of me in general. But the laughs it has gotten have been very genuine. I remember finding the "humble folk" from the pilot utterly hilarious.
I'm enjoying it but it never really gets any laughs from me. I do think it's establishing it's world and setting first and foremost. Like people have pointed out, even both the Simpsons and Futurama took a few seasons to settle in and find their feet. I'll stick with it and see where it goes.
so some of the episodes are somewhat a drag, they're still a lot of fun visual gags and other side jokes. Bean is a fun character though I think they haven't quite nailed the chemistry yet. episode 5 was more of what I had hoped this show would be. can't wait for season 2, in like a year I guess...
Finished this last night. I found it... amusing, I guess? from the start, though I don't know as I actually laughed much. From episode six on, though, the story picked up and it seemed like a different show. I finished the last episode and thought, "That's it? It just got started! How long do I have to wait now for more?"
Season Finale Futurama Easter Egg The backwards time machine appears for just a few frames at one point
Link if anyone wants to see it. I was surprised that the Futurama characters are actually there. Looking into it, there's actually a decent amount of cheeky Futurama and Simpsons references throughout the season. Mostly minimal background details, though apparently you can see both Scruffy and Cletus among a pile of corpses in one episode.
Fry's hair is in a wig shop. The King saying 'Bad day to wear my new pair of sandals' might be a reference to Sal saying the same thing in Futurama, but probably not.
damn Bob, ruining it for giants everywhere.
I'm kind of getting tired of shows ending season 1 on cliffhangers these days. like the season was great but episodes 9 and 10 really just feel shoehorned.
This show is unexpectedly good. The first episode gave me bad first impressions, but all the other episodes i've watched so far were pretty cool and with some nice jokes here and there. (I'm at episode 6 currently).
3 episodes in and it feels weird. I actually liked the first episode a lot. It wasn't incredible, but I laughed quite a bit. Episode 2 was pretty similar. Not as good as episode 1, but still pretty good. But episode 3 and it's starting to wear on me. Maybe it was just a weak episode. So far Luci just feels like a discount Bender. I'm not really a fan of his design, either. I thought the nose and upper lip were going to be the snout and lower jaw, and I think that would have worked a lot better, but no. Maybe that's just me, though. I'll give it a few more episodes, since it apparently gets better around the last episodes.
I've finished watching it yesterday, don't let your expectation fool you, Matt Groening did good. I just wish it didn't end so abruptly and had some sort of closure instead of basically opening the main plotline in the last episode.
Yeah and they don't really know what to do with Luci yet either and his role. I find him funny in some scenes but pointless in others.
Me and my boyfriend decided to watch it on a whim a few weeks ago. It wasn't as bad as we thought!
7 episodes in and Luci still feels tacked on. I don't see me watching multiple seasons of this show if he is more than a character arc.
Reminder Bender was literally talk shit: the line for two and a half seasons.
Can't wait for Part 2 Absolutely brilliant series. Good mix of the Simpsons and Futurama with some extra adult humor.
Yeah but he was a normal part of that world, actually bent stuff sometimes, and was Fry's friend. Luci hasn't shown us much why's he's there. I'm sure they'll figure it out
yeah i thought it was gonna be shite after reading a few reviews but it was solidly enjoyable. the gag where [sp]they fix the prince with elf blood and his brain drops out of his head[/sp] made me laugh harder than anything in recent memory.
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