3/5
Futuroscope
10 Epsiodes. Starring: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom & David Herman. Created By: Matt Groening. On: Hulu & Disney +.
Good news, everyone. Despite being cancelled more times than Hollywood stars, 'Futurama' is back for a lucky 13th season, baby! Even if there is some metal fatigue in the shiny Bender a## you can bite. 'The Jetsons' to 'The Flintstones' of Matt Groening's 'Simpsons' (now in its own 36th season) is still welcome to the world of tomorrow, even though the legendary writer of the 'Life In Hell' bunny comic's medieval fantasy of the middle-ages, on Netflix, was disenchanted with staying around for that long (cholera or typhoid fever probably got to it). Disney Plus and Hulu now save this show, like they did Jimmy Kimmel, after they should have never let him go, and you're tongue-in-cheek reminded with the classic captions to open the iconic light theme tune (Christopher Tyng) and compelling credits, which bring the old Planet Express ship crashing, video screen animations back. Seriously, losing them was like when the bass guitar of 'Seinfeld' dropped a stand-up Jerry's opening act. Let's gooo alreeeady!
Fox, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, even some direct-to-video movies for your home. It seems that 'Futurama' has been cryogenically frozen for more than a thousand years, and we're still waiting on that pizza, delivery boy. Fry, Leela, Bender, Hermes, Amy, Dr. Zoidberg and Professor Hubert J. Fonsworth (don't forget Scruffy), and so many more cool characters, and the entire Harlem Globetrotters, that could fit inside Moe's Tavern are back. Courtesy of a cast of voices including, Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom and David Herman. All for ten top episodes that take off, even if the iconic ship, somewhere between the legend of a 'Star Trek' vessel and something off of 'Red Dwarf', needs a little kicking at times. This social satire, science fiction animated sitcom has had plenty of current events to play with, from the world ending threats of COVID-19 to A.I., that if you're watching this in the future (like me, recently binging all that came before), you'd think it was almost as Nostradamus like as the yellow family that watches on from a couch, thousands of calendars before.
This time, this show, ran by Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, has even more space to dive into like a fellow 'King Of The Hill 'revival at Disney's HQ. First, Bender want's to turn into Giant-Man like Hank Pym. Then, some cute pandas in prams join in on 'The World Is Hot Enough' (Mr. Bond). Which may finally be the environmental warning you needed to see, punching your lights out. 'Fifty Shades Of Green' continues that love of foliage, as a mystery mirror on the wall, will reveal who is your fairest of them all. Take that, dating apps! Soulmates have never been so satirical. The, at most times, juvenile show then gets highbrow with a numbers game, which compellingly complicated, is one of their best in years. All before, it really moves with the times. Whether taking on screen addiction with a heart, or literally airing an episode about the rapture one week before half the people in America were convinced they were about to ascend into the heavens. Add a 'Murderoni' pepperoni pizza mystery, an adopted crab splatter and some cute pigs sniffing truffles, and you have a recipe for success. All before the closing white hole swallows us all. Stabby robots, devils, the mafia, and the star of 'All My Circuits'. They all compute. But the best application? Shut up, Bender. I know it! TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Further Filming: 'The Simpsons', 'Disenchantment', 'The Jetsons'.
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