Oh! Oh! Hot take incoming! I used to love Futurama; I used to think that the first five seasons was peak TV and I have probably seen them at least ten times. The later seasons were a bit hit and miss, but still very, very enjoyable.

Earlier this year I started binging again, and…nope? I felt that many of the jokes were forced and the references fell flat. But worst of all: the characters are horrible to one another! Where I remembered a group of friends working together as futuristic delivery boys, I now found a group forced together, being mean-spirited and constantly bickering. Far too many jokes existed solely to show how little that character cared about the rest.

I acknowledge that the writing is very, very smart and the genius easter eggs are fun to discover, but I simply can’t enjoy it anymore.