Good(ish) News Everyone. Futurama's Coming Back

I'd expect trailer(s) soon then.

 

I sure hope so!

 

I didn't realize we were getting it that soon.

 

Good news, everybody! The show returns in just two months!



Season synopsis and other details (the link also includes a couple of stills):

“After a brief 10-year hiatus, Futurama has crawled triumphantly from the cryogenic tube, its full original cast and satirical spirit intact. The 10 all-new episodes of season 11 have something for everyone. New viewers will be able to pick up the series from here, while long-time fans will recognize payoffs to decades-long mysteries—including developments in the epic love story of Fry and Leela, the mysterious contents of Nibbler’s litter box, the secret history of evil Robot Santa, and the whereabouts of Kif and Amy’s tadpoles. Meanwhile there’s a whole new pandemic in town as the crew explores the future of vaccines, bitcoin, cancel culture, and streaming TV.”

The cast includes John DiMaggio, Billy West, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr, and David Herman.

Futurama returns July 24 with a weekly rollout of new episodes; season 11 will contain 10 episodes, which means—since Hulu announced a 20-episode order in February 2022—there’ll be more on the way after that.​

 

Hooray![/Zoidberg]

 

The one thing that stood out to me about the last Futurama return was how horribly they handled "modern topic" type stories, like the Eye App episode, so that description of the new season is sending ice cold chills down my spine. I really don't care to hear what over the hill (mostly white, and mostly male) writers think about things like "Cancel Culture", vaccines or Bitcoin. Basically, I really don't need or want to know which Futurama characters are Anti-Vax morons or Crypto Bros, and that combined with the show being made by people who are basically at Modern Simpsons level of writing ability really does not bode well for the Hulu Futurama stuff.

Futurama's original run was great, and sometimes amazing. Its return was mixed but did have a few classic episodes. I'm worried this return will just be Modern Simpsons/Family Guy or Disenchanted levels of "meh" at best, it really feels like diminishing returns for the series at this point. It probably won't be the worst thing ever, and it might even have a watchable episode or two, but right now I'm thinking that mediocrity and outright cringey BS is going to make up most of the new season.

 

And yet you've seen not a single episode.

 

Good news everyone! You don't have to watch it!

 

I'm glad you're just as optimistic as ever.

I'm really looking forward to the new season, I am curious the freedom of being on a streaming service will have much of an effect on it.
Futurama has always been one of my favorite shows, and I never really saw that much of a change in quality between the Fox seasons and the Comedy Central seasons, so I'm optimistic they'll be able to keep that quality up on Hulu now.

 

Aside from not being restricted to a particular running time in order to accommodate commercial breaks, I doubt there will be much difference, content wise. I don't think Comedy Central had very many restrictions about what they could or couldn't do.

 

I assume the content level will probably stay about the same, I was talking more about the tone and issues they dealt with. A lot of shows that start out on cable and are saved by streaming do have noticeable difference in tone and storytelling even when the content level stays about the same. Longmire is perfect example, that got noticeably darker and more complex once it moved to Netflix.

 

Disenchanted on Netflix doesn't feel that much different that what you could probably get away with on TV.

 

The return of the Borax Kid!

Dune references! Hopefully with Al Gore!

More crazy shenanigans!

I can't wait!

 

From the weapons it looks like the same episode as the worm war episode earlier in the trailer.

 

All the more reason they need Al Gore!

 

I just noticed that Wikipedia has all of the episode titles for both batches of ten episodes.

First batch

The Impossible Stream
Children of a Lesser Bog
How the West Was 1010001
Parasites Regained
Related to Items You've Viewed
I Know What You Did Next Xmas
Rage Against the Vaccine
Zapp Gets Cancelled
The Prince and the Product
All the Way Down

Second batch

The One Amigo
Quids Game
The Temp
Beauty and the Bug
One Is Silicon and the Other Gold
Attack of the Clothes
Planet Espresso
Cuteness Overlord
The Futurama Mystery Liberry
Otherwise

 

So excited