Quids Game

This episode was strange by all standards. There was no instance that was funny unless you're somebody who likes random blatant violence. The moral of the episode shown in the end was also confusing not heartfelt in any way and generally weird. This episode left way more questions then it tried to answer by creating new character developments and backstory to characters nobody really cared about. And only making the relationship with Fry's family more confusing than it has ever been. The main villains of this episode also look like they should be in a different TV show by how they're designed and animated. And they inclusion of so many other characters from previous episodes really feels forced in this episode. It's also filled with jokes that would have been funny two years ago but now are extremely out of date.

This is a perfectly fine episode - not the best but by far better than the worst of last season. It's like a "Tales of Interest" but a bit more cohesive. It's one that pulls at the heart strings, but maybe not quite as well as episodes like Jurassic Bark.

This in no way deserves the low ratings it's getting and I, for one, will be pretty upset if this odd standard being applied is a reason that we won't be getting further episodes.

The voice acting seems to have gone up a level compared to the previous season, which felt quite off after such a long break.

Futurama is still thought provoking, entertaining and a welcome distraction.

Is the whole purpose to make us feel like crap?? This episode feels like it's trying to hard to be like "Jurrasic Bark" or "Luck of the Fryish." It's a little desperate. Still, a good episode. Needs a little more Zap, why not. I mean, it's a fun little "grab bag" of an episode. I will never complain about more Futurama. But this one was a smidge off-center.

But geez, that ending. Little rough on the viewers there, Hulu. Also, lots of continuity errors. Characters you've come to love may or may not be seen ever again. Emphasize on the "may or may not."

Also, we learn something about Fry. Did he have bad friends? Bad parents? Or both, in the 21st century? No him doesn't.

The past few new episodes have gone out of the way to include like every character that's ever been in the show, probably in some attempt to get away with minimal character development. Maybe development for one character in their B story but it's not particularly clever or interesting. It's like the writers were making a fry episode one just made the aliens do whatever. No clear motivation other than to wreak havoc? But it wasn't like funny or clever the aliens were just like "OOOP gotcha, the game isn't what you thought it would be" for the ENTIRE EPISODE. It's just not super creative. I think some of the appeal of the older episodes is that the og crew of usually just bender Leela and fry going to get into shenanigans with other people as the plot instead of the other way around? There are just so many characters in one episode it's kinda difficult to care about what's going one. And then the end is oh no one was hurt the end :^\

Wow, this one was good! Don't get me wrong, it wasn't PERFECT, but I think this is, by far, the best paced and funniest episode since the reboot. It seemed, from the title, that it would be a relatively soulless tie in to the Squid Game show, but they really went above and beyond to make this one its own thing. The comedy is also getting better and better, and I found myself enjoying this one's jokes a lot. Tonally, I don't think it will ever be the exact same as either the originals or the CC episodes, but that's ok. It's a different decade, and there are different writers. I think this one will be remembered more fondly in the future than today. Plus, the ending was incredible! The only real problem that I got peeved by was the ad breaks, and how they stop the flow of the episode, despite there not even being ads for this show. Either put ads in, or stop breaking the pacing. Anyways, great episode!