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Hot take: Futurama doesn’t need to be in its golden age to still exist and a lot of younger people like myself are getting to see the show in a way that appeals to modern pop culture references for the first time.
Despite how many people feel about this previous season, it had its moments and it still exists in a niche that I’d argue is almost entirely untouched by most animated tv nowadays. I will absolutely take Futuramas half-hearted attempts at clever writing over the now modern “it’s so gross/crass it’s funny” style of things.
Can I rewatch older seasons? Sure. But again, a lot of season 1-5 are before my time. The characters are still great, voices are great, it’s just the through line plot that’s suffered in the new season. Specifically that gets highlighted in the Dung episode where the quips are funny, the situation is funny, but the overall plot is kind of uninteresting to me and it’s lost that cleverness. Fix a few things about an episode like that and it’d be right at home in the first series.
Yeah, the main question shouldn't be "is this new season as good as peak Futurama?" but "is it just good?" There's so little good TV these days that I wouldn't say no to anything that's just plain good, we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.