“Futurama” is again, child!
After a ten yr hiatus from its final iteration on Cartoon Community, creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen (“The Simpsons,” “Disenchanted”) are hovering into a brand new 20-episode Season 11 of “Futurama” with a brand new revival collection streaming on Hulu beginning July 24, 2023 courtesy of twentieth Tv Animation and Hulu Originals.
This fan-favorite animated sci-fi present first aired again in 1999 on Fox earlier than two subsequent reboots on Grownup Swim that ran from 2008-2013. “Futurama” facilities round a mild-mannered pizza supply boy named Philip J. Fry who falls right into a cryogenic chamber on New 12 months’s Eve 1999. He awakens 1,000 years later into a fabulous world of “Jetson”-like expertise and devices the place he connects with a one-eyed mutant named Leela and a boozy, bonkers robotic named Bender.
The vocal solid showcases many return names together with John DiMaggio as Bender; Billy West enjoying Fry, Prof. Farnsworth and Dr. Zoidberg; Katey Segal as Leela; Tress MacNeille giving voice to Leela’s mother, Linda and Nerdbot; Phil LaMarr as Hermes; Lauren Tom portraying Amy; and Maurice LaMarche as Calculon, Kif and Morbo.
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The premiere episode that aired July 24, “The Unattainable Stream,” is packed to the rafters with well timed riffs on “The Twilight Zone,” tyrannical streaming providers, NFTs, Large Tech, non-binary robots, endlessly resurrected exhibits, VR goggles, “Dune‘s” survival nonetheless fits, cancel tradition and talentless TV writers being labored to demise.
All of it kicks off with Earth time being frozen and Professor Farnsworth off looking for Fry and Leela and discovering them as a pair of octogenarians affected by the results of utmost growing old. After a fast temporal reboot, Fry, Leela, Bender, Zoidberg and the entire gang are reset to their regular ages and the nostalgic Thirty first-century hijinks start rolling out quick and livid.
Farnsworth’s atomic calendar reads the yr 3023, so 23 years have handed since that huge time halt and Fry is angered that he is not completed something in any respect.
Decided to right this, he pledges to look at each TV present ever made within the final 20 years. The 4th hottest streaming service, Fulu, has him absolutely coated with mountains of content material to ingest and his lifetime of laziness appearing as preparation for this seemingly unattainable media odyssey.
After an ill-conceived plan to binge each present directly in a snug lounge chair and particular goggles that drill straight into his cerebral cortex, Fry beings to lose contact with actuality. Fearing that his consciousness might be severed after the ultimate episode of a cancelled robotic cleaning soap opera known as “All My Circuits,” Leela and Bender fly the Planet Specific to Fulu’s company places of work to demand that they create again the collection to avoid wasting their buddy. They persuade the android executives to greenlight the thrice-axed present and new episodes are out of the blue being cranked out earlier than Fry runs out of content material.
With Fry’s mind accelerating in a “precarious binge state,” any alteration within the streaming velocity, even reloading the Doritos bowl, might have dire outcomes.
When the director turns into a casualty from taking pictures too many new “All My Circuits” episodes, Leela steps in as government producer and demonstrates her spectacular expertise delivering orders to the mechanical actors. Fulu’s execu-bots arrive to re-cancel the present, however Farnsworth has a brand new plan to kidnap the solid and shift Fry’s focus slowly again to the true world by having the robots carry out dwell. After an explosively humorous last twist, Fry out of the blue seems alive to disclose that he really exited the customized binging go well with days in the past and was merely catching up on his studying.
Season 11’s debut is a enjoyable return to “Futurama” type and we will not wait to witness extra of Groening and Cohen’s model of animated hilarity wrapped in a sci-fi bow.
“Futurama” Season 11 airs weekly every Monday solely on Hulu.
