First Look at Season 12 of Futurama
First Look at Season 12 of Futurama
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/22813480
Release date: July 29 on Hulu.
The show keeps living! Glad to see it still around.
It just won't stay dead!
I wish it would! It's basically decreasing the quality of its own obituary at this point
Did they replace the writers from season 11?
That is the only season I skip on my eternal rewatching loop for relaxing before bed.
There were a few good episodes, the Santa time travel one, the multiverse one, the mom Corp one. I liked the dune one even though it's got mixed reactions.
That episode 9 was a fucking train wreck, however.
I think 11 would've been a lot better if it had come out in 2021. In 2023 all of the COVID themes were really played out.
Hopefully 12 wasn't written 3 years ago.
That's a weak defense of the season. The thing that made a lot of the classic episodes classics is that they are more or less timeless. If releasing the episode a year or two later means it's not going to land well, then they should be rethinking the writing.
A great example is the iPhone episode. Its a bad episode because the premise was hardly interesting even when it was relevant, and it hasn't aged well at all.
Original run writers room had a math phd, chemistry phd, and comp sci phd on the team. I think that's why any of the post cancellation seasons fail to capture the wit of the first run.
Am I crazy or is this season 8/9? Why is it called 12 here but 9 elsewhere?
EDIT: Apparently every season after 6 has had two halves, so if you count each half separately this is season 11, but otherwise this is the second half of season 8. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Futurama_episodes#Series_overview
So why is it 12? I'm confused.
I think the movies are being counted here for some reason
The numbering on the seasons is a bit weird. Going by the dvd numbering, it's season 9, but by streaming numbering, it's season 11
It's broadcast seasons vs how many purchases ("episode orders") were made. Fox aired 5 but paid for 4 (held back some episodes), then the movies, Comedy Central aired across 4 seasons but made 2 episode orders, and now Hulu split their first order across 2 aired seasons.
Aired: 5 Fox, 1 movies, 4 CC, 2 Hulu -> season 12.
Orders: 4 Fox, 1 movies, 2 CC, 1 Hulu -> Season 8.
(Hulu made a second episode order already, but since that wouldn't start until at least next year I didn't count it. Assuming it's split again, it'll be seasons 13+14 or 9.)
I'm surprised it got another season. I'm not sure if there was any episode I'd call good (or even decent) from season 11. While I've watched the series multiple times, I don't see myself watching this next season.
After the last laughable abomination of a season that was definitely not even close to what Futurama should be, bringing it back again to ruin it even further is a joke at this point.
Stop Simpsonizing shows by dragging them out over a billion seasons.
People actually thought it was pretty good. I was kinda shocked how bad it was. Started watching it when it aired, i still haven't watched more than 4 episodes and i doubt i will ever watch more.
I know people love Futurama but I sort of blame it for making the Simpsons less good.