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Disenchantment (NetFlix) [Matt Groening][2018]

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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,003 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Very interesting. I think Netflix's comedy output is very strong, more so than their dramas and that, coupled with Groenig and the cast is promising.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,952 ✭✭✭corkie


    First look at Matt Groening's first new show in two decades

    disenchantment-netflix-3.jpg

    The series, whose 10-episode first season launches Aug. 17, also will feature the voice talents of John DiMaggio, Billy West, Maurice LaMarche, Tress MacNeille, David Herman, Matt Berry, Jeny Batten, Rich Fulcher, Noel Fielding, and Lucy Montgomery.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,571 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    First trailer. :)
    Out August 17th.



  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,072 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    It’s most of the same cast as Futurama then? Doing for fantasy what the former did for sci fi I assume.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I have an immediate mental block / bias to work against, because the fantasy setting & Groening character styling makes me think of that execrable "Benders Game" feature-length episode of Futurama :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,571 ✭✭✭✭Mr E




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    "Part 1", consisting of 10 episodes, has dropped. Kinda looking forward to this given the pedigree, though like Futurama (and the Simpsons too in fairness) before it I expect it to take a while to bed down & find its voice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,878 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    I have watched the first episode....I enjoyed it! Not sure why its getting pretty poor reviews.
    The 3 main characters are excellent.
    It looks terrific lots of little details in the background.

    Also couple of the side characters they bump in to are great fun, the fairy and the priest in particular.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭5555555555


    Hmmmm first episode was poor.

    Maybe it will improve.

    Matt Berry playing his character from the IT crowd is promising


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,519 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    Just watched it. It's just flat and lacking in energy. Even the opening sequence trying to establish Bean with the Poker fight was just absolutely lifeless. It's as if every interaction goes on a beat too long. I'd like to see it more aggressively edited for better timing.

    edit: also better writing. And while I'm at it, some of Groening's established players are making it sound like a best of his other works. Did DiMaggio really have to go to that well again.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Yeah the first episode is a mixed bag. Some of the gags were chucklesome, some not so much but it's the usual complaint with Netflix comedies: the pilot was too damn long with too many scenes stretching past the punchline.

    Curious to know the plot though, and I kinda liked the characters anyway so the good generally outweighed the bad on balance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭cython


    My, how far(ahem!)-reaching some Father Ted jokes seem to be, unless there was a massive coincidence in the writing of that first episode!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,412 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    3 episodes in and I quite like it. Bean is a good lead. The gags do raise a chuckle.

    This too shall pass.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 PenguinEggs


    Only a couple of episodes left and I really like it. Its not brilliant, but I thought the same of Futurama for the first few shows as well, but I do think its getting better and better so hopefully Part II will have ironed out the uneveness

    I like the balance of crap magic and semi realistic medieval living conditions vs outright fantasy. The characters and plots as well as series spanning sub texts are fine. It just needs better jokes


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Only popped on episode 2, penned by Futurama alum David X Cohen himself, and it was a much funnier, sharper beast. Lots of great rapid fire asides that felt very similar to that previous Groening show in its pomp.


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    A lot of the humour stinks of zombie simpsons. Really shallow stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,412 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Got to the end, which ends on a bit of a cliff hanger, and I have enjoyed it enough to be annoyed if they don't get renewed to resolve the new developments.

    This too shall pass.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Finished up with those first, released 10 episodes and ... uhm, well, it was Okay. There are laughs to be had, but in between masses of bloat and flatlining comedy. It was a more serialised beast than previous Groening shows - for better and worse. Honestly I didn't care about half the cast so the big cliffhanger at the end didn't leave me eager to know everyones' fate. Elfo was particularly annoying and his whole arc a total dud.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,952 ✭✭✭corkie


    Disenchantment Theory: Is The Netflix Series Set In The FUTURE?



    Theory from clip: -
    Set in destroyed New York, which we see when FRY is frozen.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,412 ✭✭✭✭flazio




    New episodes stretched out over the next 3 years.

    This too shall pass.



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Because when your show gets broadly lukewarm reviews and a tepid reaction, what you really should do is stretch out those remaining episodes?

    Yeah, I don't get it. Weird decision.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,952 ✭✭✭corkie


    New episodes stretched out over the next 3 years.

    Is that clip just confirming that there will be 3 more seasons of the show? (And not one spreadout?)


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Yeah, it's a bit unclear. Though it'd be equally surprising if Netflix were committing to 3 more seasons too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 164 ✭✭Daxve


    IGN reporting it as one more season (season 2) split in 2 (10 episodes each) with the second half of Season 1 (10 episodes in 2019). 30 episodes total over the next 3 years but only 2 seasons (40 episodes in total).

    https://ie.ign.com/articles/2018/10/22/disenchantment-season-2-renewed-netflix


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Frank O. Pinion


    pixelburp wrote: »
    Because when your show gets broadly lukewarm reviews and a tepid reaction, what you really should do is stretch out those remaining episodes?

    Yeah, I don't get it. Weird decision.
    It's 10 episodes a year, for a few years, like many other modern shows.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    I quite enjoyed Disenchantment so I'm glad it'll be coming back.
    It was a bit middle of the road but it was shut off your brain entertainment so this will be back to be commuting entertainment for me :)
    Perfect epsiode lenght for me on the bus.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,412 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Next, part, series, season, new episodes on September 20th
    https://twitter.com/disenchantment/status/1129031247827595266?s=19

    This too shall pass.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    A show I completely forgot I even watched. Possibly not a good sign, though there's definitely potential in there, somewhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson




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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Full trailer has popped up; looks like it still has that weird mix of serialised drama & comedy.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    The next batch of episodes dropped today BTW :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 hereforthechat


    What did everyone think of part 2?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,270 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    A bland, joyless series. I'll be surprised if it gets a season 3.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,412 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    What did everyone think of part 2?

    I'm 5 episodes in. I'm a bit meh about it so far.

    This too shall pass.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,412 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    J. Marston wrote: »
    A bland, joyless series. I'll be surprised if it gets a season 3.

    It already has.

    This too shall pass.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,952 ✭✭✭corkie


    J. Marston wrote: »
    A bland, joyless series. I'll be surprised if it gets a season 3.
    flazio wrote: »
    It already has.


    Looking for season 3, when we are still watching season 1?

    Is Part 2 of the same season. In there stupid reasoning they split the seasons in half and showing over different years.

    "Disenchantment, which hails from Simpsons and Futurama creator Matt Groening, debuted in August with its first 10 episodes — aka the first half of Season 1. The second set of 10 episodes will release sometime in 2019, while Season 2 will also be split among two, 10-episode releases in 2020 and 2021."

    https://tvline.com/2018/10/22/disenchantment-renewed-season-2-netflix-premiere-return-date/

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5363918/episodes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 890 ✭✭✭seamusk84


    Seems to be getting decent reviews for whatever reason. Frankly I thought part 1 was better.

    Have yet to laugh out loud watching this new batch of episodes.....


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Trailer for the new season popped up; some gags made me laugh,so who knows maybe the show will finally find its groove



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,952 ✭✭✭corkie


    ^^^ Bump this Friday 15th


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    corkie wrote: »
    ^^^ Bump this Friday 15th

    ... annnnnd is out today...


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Man, this show is so frustrating. The jokes are so completely half assed for something this slick a production, coming from someone in as high regard as Matt Groening. The actual story and characters are interesting enough, but the gags always feel like the writers would forget so throw in some random brainfart.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Need a Username


    Is there going to be a season 4 ?

    I watched the first season over the first few months it was released but never got the chance to see 2 & 3.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    AFAIK there's no update on a season 4. Dunno how you found season 1, but it doesn't improve or change much through the second and third run.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Need a Username


    I really enjoyed it. I wasn’t expecting there to be a “serious” element to the story and characters. There were moments were I wanted it to just be all out comedy (not that the serious part didn’t work (it did)) but becassue I just wanted all out comedy’.

    Futurama had serious and dramatic moments but it had laughs all over those moments.

    I quickly adapted though.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Story and plot surface more in later seasons, to the point where it's interesting enough without the need for comedy - especially as I've found that part of the show really subpar. Can't think of a single moment or episode I found especially funny it lingered in memory, while the actual story of Princess Bean and her friends' arcs have been the most intriguing part.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Trailer for this; and as is standard with the show most of the humour is deeply meh ... apart from the one gag with the executioner's axe;




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Useless Lump


    Started this show recently. I really enjoy it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,952 ✭✭✭corkie



    Sorry to see it go, but it ran its course, I had forgotten about it, don't remember where I left off watching.



  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,072 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    May have a lot to do with Futurama, which has much of the same cast, returning. Although Netflix doesn’t tend to let series run long anyway.



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