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This is one of the more tonally faithful re-visits, but the writing is kind of weird. It’s like each episode is 90% cozy nostalgia-bait, and then in the last three minutes they remember they had a conflict to resolve. You can also totally tell when Johnny Hardwick isn’t doing Dale; it’s unsettling.
also making Bobby old removed like 50% of the comedic relief.
I keep feeling like the writing is a few years behind.
Seriously, an episode on cultural appropriation? That hasn’t been a big thing for a hot minute - moreso by anyone writing for a ‘big’ magazine in Dallas of all fucking places.
You saw a similar thing when Futurama came back after the films. I think writers have these ideas in their head for years and when the show returns they really want to use the jokes or storylines they’ve been thinking of for a long time.
It was one of the nice things about having ~22 episode seasons every year. You had plenty of time to tell little stories, and if one was a little silly or outdated, whatever you have a bunch more. Plus things were within a year or so of being relevant, so a show reflected that era more closely.
With futurama specifically i honestly think executives are getting too involved you can almost here the conversation they had to the writers. “We want it to be like that one really successfull episode in the 3rd season do that.” Or if they try to make a statement you can see where the execs asked them to tone it down. (Though futurama can be pretty hit and miss there to. Their lgbtqia+ stuff can raise eyebrows). Futurama is a perfect example of what happens when execs become to imvolved everytime the writers have had freedom its excelled. Sorry this has been bouncing around in my brain for a while and some reason i decided to get it out here.
Can’t wait for the episode about John Redcorn getting murdered by Texan bigots.
Anyone wanna take bets on who dies next?
Nah there’s a 2 person per series limit. Quota is met.
RIP great actors tho
We are at 4
Who’s the fourth? I know Dale, John Redcorn and Luanne’s VAs have passed away, I don’t think I’ve heard of the fourth.
Lucky is gone too
Don’t care how good it might be, not going to watch a remake/revival/reimagining of a completed show. Fuck all the nostalgia, I want to meet new characters and get to know them through a natural story progression.
King of the Hill is an episodic sitcom. It’s never “complete,” it’s a new slice of life each episode with minor seasonal arcs. One could jump into any random episode and enjoy it (which is pretty much how I saw it when young).
If this was, like, a meticulously planned serial epic with an apocalyptic last episode, I could see where you’re coming from…
Replace completed with cancelled then. It’s an end. Things end and there’s a satisfaction to that. There’s a sense of letting go that reboots fly in the face of to me
👍 “stop having fun” meme
Enjoy it all you want, I’ve got my opinion and the comments are where it goes. You have yours too
As a counter argument, a show like King of the Hill is a sitcom that is never really complete. Sure characters do grow and change, but especially in an unaging cartoon, everyone is roughly the same.
King of the Hill aged their characters up, so now we get to see them grow and change at a different point in their life, which is new and interesting.
