Futurama is a show that has a special place in my heart, and it is one of the greatest animated shows of all time. After the perfect finale that was 'meanwhile', I was apprehensive and worried for the announced reboot, but I found myself really enjoying the first episode, to my delight. However the season has kept deteriorating, where most of the plots are stupid and nearly all the jokes don't land. It all culminates in this episode. Futurama used to be hilarious for its slight jabs at social issues where it sometimes almost parodied it, but always kept it fresh and it felt like it had a place within the universe. Now the humour is far too on the nose, with no attempt to be subtle, and it brings in things directly from our world that make no sense within the futurama universe. Futurama already did a great flu pandemic episode, with the one where fry develops a cold and he thinks the cure is with his hamster from a science project, which has touching flashbacks and some great jokes, as was the norm for old futurama. In this episode, it is just jokes about the covid 19 pandemic, most of which are very unfunny, but also just explicitly referencing stuff that happened to us in an attempt to be 'meta', but they don't do anything to make it link to the 'world of tomorrow'. No funny parody, no subtle digs, just 'ha ha remember zoom', 'ha ha remember covid tests'. It's just stupid and it is really sad to see all this it what was once such a great show. A final grievance, is the use of legacy characters, such as Barbados slim, because 'haha remember him?', instead of actually making a half acceptable attempt to fit him in a plot. You could have introduced a new 'voodoo king' or whatever it was that could have been interesting, like the robot devil, but no it was Barbados slim because errrr reasons. Futurama you should have just ended it with 'meanwhile'.
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