Also Bean

I haven't enjoyed the most recent couple of seasons, I can't tell if I'm just nostalgic for the older seasons or if they are just bad. I feel like there's more culture references (like COVID and Amazon) in these later ones as well

I have to disagree.

At first, I was super excited for a new Groening show, but Disenchantment left me disappointed after the first few episodes.

Not sure if my expectations were too great, but the show just feels rushed and lacks depth. I gave up somewhere around the middle of season three.

Same here. The new Futurama episodes on Hulu are just not nearly as good as the original run and at this point are worse than the Comedy Central run. This season in particular has a number of episodes that have too many plot points that don't come together for a cohesive story.

They have comics now. They're called "Disenchantment: Untold Tales" and 2 are out with a 3rd coming. Nice hardcovers too.

I abandoned it. One of the specific things I could tell disappointed me was the foley effects. There’s a 5-10 second sequence of Bean escaping from some evil queen that’s taken her captive, climbing over obstacles and up a rope, and it was basically silent except for the music.

I understand in isolation it comes off as a nitpick, but it’s maybe the most direct explanation I have for the show feeling low budget and incomplete. On top of that, the writing seemed to want to be higher stakes than Futurama by wrapping a larger story, but things just got resolved so unceremoniously. (That escape being one of those instances - it went from a moment of capture and peril to just going home out of nowhere)

Giggity