The acclaimed adult cartoon has been brought back from the dead – and not for the first time. It’s never going to recapture the brilliance of the original run, writes Louis Chilton, but the series’ stop-start history has made it a compelling record of changing cultural obsessions

I’ve just found this article about Futurama on The Independent, a UK newspaper. It comments on the changes in Futurama reflecting the changes in society in general.

  • ProcurementCat@feddit.deEnglish
    154·
    11 months ago

    This overly patriotic “freedom of speech”, “earth is the free-est planet ever” and “I’m conservative but I will fight tooth and nail for his freedom of speech” is definitely not how american conservatives today are. They are more about banning books, over-regulating everything including your genitals and “lol seethe and cope librul”.

    • oldGregg@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      “I’m conservative but I will fight tooth and nail for his freedom of speech” is definitely not how american conservatives today are.

      That’s the same today.

      They say ‘I’m conservative BUT I respect free speech.’

      Not ‘I’m conservative SO I respect free speech.’

    • snooggums@kbin.social
      2·
      11 months ago

      It still works as a contrast to authoritarian regimes like Russia clamping down on dissent, and would require minimal rework if any.