Disenchantment

There’s a show called Disenchantment. Matt Groening made it. Medieval fantasy world, dragons, monsters, everyone’s drinking. So Futurama but with castles instead of spaceships.

I’m not going to dwell on how The Simpsons fell apart or rehash the Futurama cancellation. We all know how that went. But here’s what matters: after a long period where everything felt kind of spent and pointless, Groening announced a new show and I actually wanted to see it. Not because of nostalgia, not because it’s reviving something, but because it’s new work from someone whose sensibility I trust.

The first trailer dropped and doesn’t show much. Enough to recognize his hand, though—the way he builds a world, his eye for design applied to a fantasy setting instead of the future. That’s interesting. That’s the thing that makes it more than just the Simpsons guy does another thing.

I’m looking forward to this one.