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Disenchantment (NetFlix) [Matt Groening][2018]

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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,045 ixoy
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    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: 8,403 corkie
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    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.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,688 Mr E
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    First trailer. :)
    Out August 17th.



  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,366 icdg
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    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 pixelburp
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    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: 55,688 Mr E
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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 pixelburp
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    "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: 34,595 gmisk
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    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.


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    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: 6,545 Oafley Jones
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    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 pixelburp
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    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: 4,825 cython
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    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: 13,672 flazio
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    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: 27 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 pixelburp
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    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.


  • Posts: 13,822 [Deleted User]
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    A lot of the humour stinks of zombie simpsons. Really shallow stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,672 flazio
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    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 pixelburp
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    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: 8,403 corkie
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    Disenchantment Theory: Is The Netflix Series Set In The FUTURE?



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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,672 flazio
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    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 pixelburp
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    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: 8,403 corkie
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    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?)

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 pixelburp
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    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
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    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
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    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: 6,498 Aisling(",)
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    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: 13,672 flazio
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    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 pixelburp
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    A show I completely forgot I even watched. Possibly not a good sign, though there's definitely potential in there, somewhere.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 pixelburp
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    Full trailer has popped up; looks like it still has that weird mix of serialised drama & comedy.



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