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Rob McElhenney's new show - Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet

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Not a videogame or directly related in and of itself, so maybe better for the TV forum but...

A trailer has been released for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator Rob McElhenney's new show, Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet.

It's a fake documentary series about a video game development company in which McElhenney plays the head of a studio who developed one of the biggest MMOs and seems like a bit of a nightmare to work with.

The cast features Danny Pudi, F. Murray Abraham, Ashly Burch, Imani Hakim, Charlotte Nicadao, David Hornsby, and Jessie Ennis.

Charlie Day (fellow cohort on Always Sunny) is an executive producer along with David Hornsby and Megan Ganz (also Always Sunny). Then there's Jason Altman, Danielle Kreinik and Gérard Guillemot from Ubisoft as executive producers, according to PC Gamer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMaPCYRPhY0

Coming to Apple TV on February 7th.

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Full_Circle_81

icdg wrote: »

It’s quite good - one of only two shows I’ve watched on Apple TV+ (the other being the Morning Show) despite having been on a twelve month free trial for well over a year now. Don’t be fooled by the name or the weird marketing as some sort of fantasy drama, it’s a work com based in a video gaming firm and is quite funny. (Oddly and though they share some of the talent, I simply can’t bring myself to like Always Sunny, but I like this).

Like yourself, I could never get into Always Sunny, but really enjoyed this.
On Apple you should also check out For All Mankind, Servant and See. All well worth a watch.

yabadabado

Full_Circle_81 wrote: »

Like yourself, I could never get into Always Sunny, but really enjoyed this.
On Apple you should also check out For All Mankind, Servant and See. All well worth a watch.

For All Mankind is enjoyable.

Agent Coulson

Season 2 trailer and starts May 7th.

Zero-Cool

Liked the new ep, some really good scenes but not as good as the quarantine episode.

cdgalwegian

Caught the quarantine episode today; very good. Lots of good fun, while still managing to be touching.

icdg

First two episodes of season 2 now released, this being Apple TV+ it’s a weekly drop.

FortuneChip

Flew through the first season in a couple of days on AppleTV; including the great Quarantine episode and Everlight special.

Great ensemble cast. Fun premise - the right balance between wacky and normal. And it's got some heart too.

Really good show.

Also, credit to them for that complete curveball episode "Dark Quiet Death".

Zero-Cool

Enjoyed the first 2 ep's, second better than the first. I wish this was all out in one go, would be an easy one to binge.

icdg

Given virtually no one is paying for this, Im not sure what they gain either.

Ardent

Episode 5 DQD was out of this world. Really top notch, some of the best TV I've seen in years.

The rest of the show however is far from that standard. The actress playing Poppy for example is just terrible and the character is highly annoying.

Gave it a shot but not inclined to watch season 2.

Zero-Cool

Today's episode is getting great reviews, a backstory ep of CW, written by Craig Mazin (Chernobyl, upcoming last of us) and directed by Rob. Looking forward to this one.

https://twitter.com/RMcElhenney/status/1400864942903857153?s=19

AlmightyCushion

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Today's episode is getting great reviews, a backstory ep of CW, written by Craig Mazin (Chernobyl, upcoming last of us) and directed by Rob. Looking forward to this one.

https://twitter.com/RMcElhenney/status/1400864942903857153?s=19

Watched it earlier. It's a great episode. Bighead does a great job of playing young CW.

iguana

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Bighead does a great job of playing young CW.

That guy just can't stop failing up!

Zero-Cool

Good ep, not as good as quiet dark death (must watch that again) but CW's face at the end was just magic.

New pdcast with the cast coming soon.

https://twitter.com/QuestieBesties/status/1402292458449473536?s=19

cdgalwegian

Up to episode 4 on season 2 now. Not enjoying it half as much as season 1. Poppy discovering her inner b1tch just isn't funny. It seems to have turned to 'situation comedy,' now that the dynamics have been laid out. Or something.

Full_Circle_81

Just finished season 2 this morning. Unfortunately I didn't find it as funny as season 1. I don't recall Poppy being as mean towards her underlings in season 1 and very much put me off her character.

The standout episode was again the flashback, which featured none of the regular cast, which is maybe a worrying indictment of the show itself! I did also enjoy the follow-up episode to that "Peter", which turned out to be surprisingly touching.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/112576947#Comment_112576947

that's the joke

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/116819368#Comment_116819368

i dont think anyone else thought that

Zero-Cool

This has been picked up for seasons 3 and 4.

https://twitter.com/RMcElhenney/status/1451240186826739712?t=qNeXeXqgDQynav7ks7Ut2w&s=19

Spon Farmer

I started this earlier. Very funny,

I cannot for the life of me figure out what CW meant meant by his liver in Guam having three buttholes.

Am I showing innocence here it is it not meant to wake sense? :p

I stupidly saw a spoiler that F Muarray Abraham won’t be back for season 3 - anyone know why?

icdg

They didn’t say.

But in season 2 he has a much reduced role - his character takes centre stage in two late episodes (one of which he’s played by a different actor and another in which he and one other are basically the only regulars) and aside from that he doesn’t really interact with the other cast. For covid related reasons, obviously.

Ash.J.Williams

I really enjoyed this

TheIrishGrover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119135952#Comment_119135952

Apparently not a nice guy. And allegations of inappropriate actions.

I enjoy the show quite a bit. (The standalone episode in season one of the couple was just fantastic). Without isolating a mainstream audience they manage to get in enough nerd culture to satisfy. Much more so than the awful big bang theory. The white tester for example does the voice of Aloy in Horizon.

riclad

It's like the office set in a company that makes an online mmo fantasy game . It's a good entertaining comedy. If you don't play games you may not get all the references to gaming culture. It's similar to silicon Valley but set in a gaming developer company not a social media company. The gaming footage is all made by ubisoft so it looks very realistic. Maybe the first comedy that features people who play games that don't just show them as stereotyped cliche, s

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119137210#Comment_119137210

I had to Google what an “Aloy in Horizon” is :p

my first reaction to “inappropriate behaviour” was (like with Frank Langella) “dirty old man” - but then I think, what did these guys actually do it say?

Are they creeps or was it just harmless banter and people today are too sensitive? But also with people being hypersensitive these days could these lads not reign it in?

a pity though as I really liked the character

I thought Big Bang was funny during the first season with all the characters being likeable but didn’t watch season 2. Saw a few episodes years later the four guys had turned into mean spirited assholes. And the nerd thing was just dated and tiresome

Spon Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119137883#Comment_119137883

I don’t think there was many (if any) pop culture references other than “naming the first game you fell in love with”.

Very strange seeing Julian from The Sinner being funny.

TheIrishGrover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119140124#Comment_119140124

Same. For my sins I thought the first couple of seasons were quite fun but then it became more and more obvious that it was a case of "Let's make fun of the guys on the spectrum". I saw one scene with Mark Hamil and Will Wheaton which was funny but that's mainly 'cos Hamil is awesome. But I remember the exact moment when I went from "This isn't very good" to "I hate this" It was an episode where they wanted to get a table in the apartment. Sheldon protested. They capitulated and he said "See? Sometimes being a baby wins". That EXACT moment I realised this show hated the "nerds" they were supposed to be "accepting"

But... Back to MQ: I don't know what the story with F Murray Abraham was. I thought there was some issue but he has found work elsewhere so maybe not. I think maybe it was just the statement they put out "He's not coming back and that's all we'll say on that". I liked him but I thought they kind of twisted his character too. Those two episodes about him (The flashback one and the one visiting the Frenemy.... Or was that one episode) really turned me against the character. Moved him from older generation inappropriateness to nastiness. So maybe they were just done with the character or he didn't want to return given his character arc.

It will be interesting to see where it goes. I mean, the show isn't going to change the world. But it's entertaining.

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F. Murray Abraham reportedly fired from Mythic Quest due to sexual misconduct allegations

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