Futurama Season 11: The New Rescue Series, All You Need To Know

Yup, it’s back, Futurama, the long-awaited revival of the legendary television series, the one that marked a before and after on television but was unfairly cancelled and forgotten even by its network, returns to us on July 24. The fiction of Matt Groening and David X. Cohen will premiere exclusively on Disney+, lending us new adventures, romances and the adult humour so characteristic of the animated production that conquered the small screen and earned a whole legion of fans. We have seen all the episodes in advance and we will tell you what we think in a review without spoilers.

Futurama’s history is very particular, with a good number of cancellations behind it and many other resurrections. Its organization by seasons is all gibberish today, with countless ups and downs, movies and specials, but we will be honest if we tell you that this season 11 shines with its light among all its returns. Futurama, which premiered in 1999, was not long in success and gained an army of loyal fans as well as winning excellent awards such as two Emmy Awards for Best Animated Program. Fox soon gave up on it, and she had to find a new life through DVDs and subsequent rescue by Comedy Central, which kept it for years.

Despite being set in the distant future, Futurama is beloved and applauded by fans for its satirical commentary on the present day. Focusing on the story of Phillip J. Fry (Billy West), a New York pizza delivery man, who accidentally freezes himself in 1999 and thaws in the year 3000. Thus, after a decade in cryogenics, Futurama emerges triumphantly from its lethargy ready to win over old viewers, occasional fans and new audiences. And it does so with all its original cast, without losing an iota of its satirical spirit and with six episodes that we mostly liked a lot.

Fox’s television division has been especially savvy in planning this unlikely season, laying out a series of storylines that will help new viewers learn about the series and its dynamics, which remain intact, while long-time fans learn the aftermath of mysteries that transpired over the decades on the show. Well, believe it or not, many of the debates around Futurama and its unsolvable enigmas will have a conclusion and an answer in this batch of chapters that will arrive weekly.

For example, we will learn more about the evolution of the epic love story between Fry and Leela-a constant that here has good moments-they will delve into the mysterious contents of Nibbler’s sandbox -in what is one of our favourite episodes in the entire history of the program-, we will discover the secret past of the evil Robot Santa and the whereabouts of Kif and Amy’s tadpoles. The show does not lose its prophetic point, but it also tries to put its finger on the yoga when it comes to telling from another point of view very tragic events that have plagued our reality, such as a representation of the unknown pandemic that devastates the city of the series while the team explores the future of vaccines, the obsession with bitcoin and cryptocurrencies and even highly controversial issues, such as the cancel culture and the excessive passion for streaming television.

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The new episodes know how to catch traditional fans and new viewers

Each chapter stands out for being its microcosm, with The Impossible Marathon being a fun joke about the aforementioned world of streaming television, as well as a kind of catchall ideal for the creators of Futurama to joke about their aforementioned cancellations. This episode in particular has fascinated us and is an ideal starting point to present the credentials of what Futurama is and will be to the viewers. Something weaker seems to us Children of the Swamp, in which the children of Amy and Kif emerge from an alien swamp and make their parents have a hard time. 

So West was 1010001, in which Bender and the gang head west to join the Bitcoin mining craze very well, a classic episode in true Futurama style. But our favourite is Return of the Parasites, in which Nibbler is sick and the group goes on a very dangerous mission through the desert world that exists in their sandbox. We are talking about an inspired version of Frank Herbert’s Dune, using his messianic story, the sands and the worms as vehicles to tell.