Premiere date and time: Monday, July 24 at 12am PT / 3am ET

Streaming service: US - Hulu, outside the US - Disney Plus

  • Fog0555@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Were they praising Hulu for resurrecting it, or decrying that they only bought a single season?

  • lamprivate@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Not the best episode but not the worst! Honestly as far as reboots go I’m VERY happy with it. I’m sure they’ll find their footing!

    I saw some people complaining that the voices weren’t the same but it’s been 24ish years since the pilot and they probably haven’t practiced in between the 10 year hiatus. Also Billy West is over 70 and Katey Sagal is 69! I couldn’t believe it. Seriously impressed how little the voices have changed if you take that stuff into account.

    I’m looking forward to the next episode as it probably won’t be as meta and doesn’t have to address being revived after 10 years.

    • Psythik@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      What a weird complaint. The voices sound the same to me. And I literally watched the Season 7 finale the day before S08E01 aired.

  • gotnuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Timestamp 20:09 S11E01: ominous warning from the future for Elon Musk “X equals suicide”. Ummm? Futurama did it!

  • c3p1o@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    1 year ago

    Season 11 - episode 1. The only correct thing in your post is the premier date/time.

    • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Most places seem to be calling 102 and 128 splits of the previous season instead of new seasons.

      As much as I don’t care for the idea, the TV databases the ultimate source of truth for many. I know when I inducted into my Plex server it’s going to show up this season 8.

    • Pop@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      My broadcasted TV from the 2000’s and torrents don’t lie, companies wanting to make their TV shows seem longer do, it’s season 8

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        I suspect it’s because they contracted for two more seasons and then released each of those seasons over two consecutive years with enough episodes to fill two seasons each.

        E.g. Season 6 had episodes released in June 2010 and July 2011. It’s a pretty reasonable expectation that that would be two different seasons.

        For torrenting and Plex purposes the TVDB is the ultimate source of truth, If they said it was 14 seasons we’d be using 14 seasons for those numbers because it makes our automation work.

  • TeaHands@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Lol at people reporting this post for misinformation. Futurama season numbers have always been ill-defined and now we just have to live with it. Be thankful you’re not in the UK where the DVD ordering made it even weirder.

    There is new Futurama coming out. Be less cranky and more excited!

  • Smadels@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    i love how everyone was theorising about how the time skip would work and they fully gloss over it cause it doesn’t actually matter.

  • darth_helmet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’m not optimistic based on that first episode, did they have a hard time getting a writer’s room together this time?

    The animation was extremely unambitious and the plot was, charitably, a minimum viable effort. I’ve loved this show for the majority of my life, but if you don’t have something to say, move on.

    The comedy in this episode was the “Now that’s what I call jokes we missed 201x” and there wasn’t anything beyond it to latch onto. After the quality of that last finale, I just want to forget that this happened, so far.