Disenchantment

[Bartmanhomer]

I'm watching this Enchantment on Netflix and so far I watch the first episode.

Spoiler: My Thoughts On Enchantment

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Matt Groening did a good job making Disenchantment. The first episode is about a daring princess escaped from an arranged marriage and join forces with an elf and demon. It has a mix of Comedy and Pathfinder roll into one. The first episode always the best one. I'll give it 5 out of 5 stars.

[DeadMech]

I enjoyed the first season. It doesn't beat out futurama for me but when season two comes out sometime around September I'll watch it.

[Magic_Hat]

I enjoyed the first season. It doesn't beat out futurama for me but when season two comes out sometime around September I'll watch it.

Season 2 is out in September? Guess I'll have to renew my Netflix account soon to watch that and the new Rocko's Modern Life and Invader Zim special. Disenchantment is okay I guess. I really enjoyed the last two episodes of season 1 and am curious where the show goes from there. Also there are a bunch of very subtle Futurama references in Disenchantment. Like so subtle I only noticed them after watching youtube videos where they were pointed out.

[False God]

I found the series rather uninspired.

[Peelee]

I enjoyed the first season. It doesn't beat out futurama for me but when season two comes out sometime around September I'll watch it.

To be fair, that's a damn near impossible standard. Futurama is all that is good and holy in TV.

...there's a chance it might be my favorite show ever.

Season 2 is out in September? Guess I'll have to renew my Netflix account soon to watch that and the new Rocko's Modern Life and Invader Zim special. Disenchantment is okay I guess. I really enjoyed the last two episodes of season 1 and am curious where the show goes from there. Also there are a bunch of very subtle Futurama references in Disenchantment. Like so subtle I only noticed them after watching youtube videos where they were pointed out.

The 20th!

Also, while I don't expect it to have nearly as many subtleties as Futurama, David X. Cohen is pretty amazing about tiny little freeze-frame jokes, and there are plenty in Disenchantment . None have yet to match Lowes' א₀א-Plex, but still a lot of gold in them hills.

... I cannot for the life of me get the naught in the proper position. Ha! Bow before my forum text mastery! I have created a simple standardized expression!

[Reddish Mage]

I'm watching this Enchantment on Netflix and so far I watch the first episode.

Given your robust endorsement I imagine you'll stick through until the end. For me and most viewers, Disenchantment has a promising beginning, an uneven middle, and an awesome climax at the end.

I'll be watching come season 2.

Spoiler: The really awesome shouldn't be spoiled twist to Season One

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I think even critiquing the season one episodes spoils the ending because I think what they do amounts to one of the best fake outs in TV or pseudo-TV.

It start off appearing to try to do an episodic format like Futurama, Simpsons, or Family Guy, although with a weird status quo that isn't quite comfortable being the status quo. Towards the end, however, suddenly they all

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or what's left of them

jump onto the serialization boat and speed off into a completely different sort of show.

[Sholos]

But does it deserve an Oscar?

[Bartmanhomer]

But does it deserve an Oscar?

It's a TV show not a movie.

[Sholos]

I am also looking forward to the second season. I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of the first until the started developing the overarching plot. The episodic content was weak and a lot of the characters were men without something larger driving them. Only stuck it out because of the creator's history with Futurama, but I'm glad I did.

[DeadMech]

I'm hoping the sound quality improves. Maybe it's the recording studio they worked out or. maybe it's the voice actors still getting into their flow but much like the earliest simpsons and futurama episodes the show also started sounding pretty bad. I can't remember if it shaped up during the run of the season but I remember that being an initial reaction.

[Erloas]

As much as I loved the first 15 or so seasons of the Simpsons and Futurama, Disenchanted really didn't do anything for me. It did get better when it started to develop an actual story, but so far it was a very standard premise and it seems like most of the chances I saw for them to do something interesting and different just weren't taken.

The show isn't bad, but it isn't all that great either.

[The Glyphstone]

It's a TV show not a movie.

Does it deserve an Emmy then? That is the TV equivalent to an Oscar.

[Bartmanhomer]

Does it deserve an Emmy then? That is the TV equivalent to an Oscar.

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I watched all 10 episode and in my honest opinion. It's Emmy-worthy so yes.

[Reddish Mage]

I am also looking forward to the second season. I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of the first until the started developing the overarching plot. The episodic content was weak and a lot of the characters were men without something larger driving them. Only stuck it out because of the creator's history with Futurama, but I'm glad I did.

I agree with this assessment. Its curious, though, the maker of Futurama and the Simpsons could (or didn't bother) making the characters themselves fleshed out enough to sustain a show on a stand alone episode basis alone.