I feel like I'm being gaslit into thinking the Hulu run is bad.

So what happens is, I watch the episode and I like it. Then I go online, see everybody hating on it, nitpicking every detail, and tearing everything apart. I get depressed, start to believe these things, and then months later I watch it again and like it even more than the first time. But then the internet people keep telling me it's garbage and not funny, and say it ruins the original show. I mean, I LOVE the new seasons. There are only two episodes I flat-out don't like out of 20.

And am I the only one that DOESN'T care about topical episodes? I mean, yeah, they might be topical right now or slightly outdated, but 10-20 years from now they will just be Futurama episodes, and the topicality won't matter. Just like how a lot of Fox episodes were topical, but people don't realize that if they watch them for the first time today. It sort of becomes just a regular Futurama episode. And the stuff people complain about is trivial.

• Crypto? It was creatively used to have a Wild West episode.
• Amazon? I mean, is that even topical? Amazon has been a mainstay in our lives for decades. It also just makes sense for the Futurama world to have it—they actually did similar stuff in the past.
• Cancel Culture? I mean, it was hardly the same cancel culture we see in our world. Zapp just did something highly inappropriate, and he literally was only suspended and forced to attend sensitivity training. They just called it being canceled.
• NFTs? Yeah, the first three minutes can be grating and cringe-inducing, but it was literally a setup for Bender going to Mexxxico to learn more about his heritage. And the other half was a fun museum heist that just so happened to be about heisting an NFT, but you could easily swap it out with anything else, and it's just a fun heist.
• Squid Game? That's not even topical; it's just a parody. They did a Titanic parody like three years after the movie came out, and that was actually WAY more on the nose than this was a Squid Game episode.
• AI Chatbot? People say it's topical, but do you really think these will ever truly go away? They're going to become another mainstay in our lives. Also, it was a Leela character study that focused on her insecurity about not having any female friends, and I think it was one of the better Leela episodes—really well written.
• Beanie Babies? I'm actually shocked people keep saying this is an outdated topical episode. It doesn't feel topical at all. It feels like people just want to complain about everything when any little thing reminds them of their life.

Overall, I think the entire run is good. Not great, but good. There are some great episodes and a couple of weak episodes, but I can say that about every season. I do think people are way too harsh on this revival, and this is coming from someone who grew up on both the Fox era and the Comedy Central era. I guess new Futurama is just always bad until 10 years have passed, and then it's "actually, the Hulu run was good."