SummaryThe comedy series executive produced By Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day follows a team of video game developers led by creative director Ian Grimm (Rob McElhenney) as they ready the launch of an expansion of its most popular multi-player game.
SummaryThe comedy series executive produced By Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day follows a team of video game developers led by creative director Ian Grimm (Rob McElhenney) as they ready the launch of an expansion of its most popular multi-player game.
It would be enough for “Mythic Quest” to be funny, and it is. But in taking on the complex, under-examined world of video gaming, the creative team gave themselves a rich area in which their wild, clever, selfish characters can bounce around unlike any other currently on TV.
Ignore the negative reviews here. They are from butthurt anti-Apple people who come into Apple TV+ shows expecting to be offended by Apple’s perceived wokeness. I think you guys need to learn from Ben Shapiro and stop wokescolding Apple.
I was not sure about a sitcom gaming show by ubisoft. Just finished the season and it's really good. Some cringe moments but i find the writing really good in general. They also talk about most of the subject we care about in the community. If you don't like the pilot and want to quit, just watch episode 5. BRILLIANT!
It's the common sense to make jokes that gamers would make about games rather than jokes that non-gamers would make about gamers that keeps Mythic Quest harmonious.
In its first couple of episodes “Mythic Quest” carves out its own niche, mining comedy from the specific realm of video game creation. A sociopathic intern who worships the boss, in particular, offers consistent laughs.
Mythic Quest often plays like a mild lark uninterested in pushing itself into truly gonzo territory. Once its protagonists’ quirks and hang-ups have been firmly established, the series is able to play off of those attributes to wittier ends. Yet even so, none of its central figures are distinctive enough to stand out from any number of like-minded comedy efforts.
The first few episodes are so full of smirk-inducing, long-winded bits that stammer on for such prolonged, repetitive back-and-forths that you’d think Judd Apatow let the cast run wild. ... Sometimes Mythic Quest’ll try for romantic or feel-good subplots that just utterly crash and burn, with little blame resting on their actors. ... Not just an unfunny comedy, but an entirely ineffective show that doesn’t seem to know what it is or where it’s going in a second season that Apple has already greenlit.
How is it possible that those guys are so triggered every time a series has more than 2 female Characters?
This show is not "woke". The development team in this show has 2 female developers and the rest are all male. The show is far from being "woke". I sense a lot of Always Sunny in Philadelphia Vibes.
Well, enough of that, i can really recommend it, it just feels like a mashup between Silicon Valley and Always Sunny. The characters are great and even if not everything is quite accurate about the game industry, most of it is authentic. I hope Apple+ will keep this series, its the first one i really liked on their Service.
As I made my way through this series, I think I waived back and forth about whether I was enjoying it or not. However, by the time that I got to the end I feel like I'd settled on feeling fairly positive about it.
The characters are pretty well developed and I liked seeing a lot of these actors that I know from other popular series in this. They did a good job of being able to separate themselves in Mythic Quest from the characters they've become known for.
There are some average episodes here for sure but they tended to be followed by a stronger episode that kept me watching. I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next for this show.
Rob McElhenney is serviceable, but the show is really carried by Charlotte Nicdao and Danny Pudi who deliver enormous returns on every moment of screen time. Other members of the cast like Jessie Ennis and David Hornsby put in solid work. These are solid-to-fantastic actors who are given some fun material to work with. Where the show takes a significant dip is the testers portrayed by Ashly Burch and Imani Hakim. There's a clear lack of effort in the scripting for these two characters and the scenes that center on them and the actors are simply not performing anywhere near the level of everyone else on the show. Burch is broad without ever being funny or believable (compare this to Nicdao who is astoundingly over-the-top without ever failing to deliver) and Hakim is so wooden it's hard not to question whether she has ever acted before in her life. Every moment spent on their characters is completely wasted, consistently detracting from the show and never even serving the plot particularly well. Everyone deserves better here. The characters deserve better writing and actors. The actors deserve roles more suited to their talents (VO for Burch and an Acting 101 course for Hakim). And more than anything, LGBTQ+ viewers deserve for the only not-straight characters in the show to not be the most lazily-written, incompetently-performed cardboard cutouts EVERY. SINGLE. TIME they appear on-screen. Literally everyone deserved better than this. That said, Nicdao and Pudi are just so downright fantastic that the show is still worth watching, but with rather significant caveats.
It's not really funny. It could have been a decent show, the problem is, they put in all that woke s**t. This is neither funny, nor does it reflect reality. These moments are cringy and boring at best. They show terrible stereotypes about gamers. Some characters show potential but they cannot make up for all the annoying agenda bs.
This show is terrible! The only good episode was the one with zero of the main characters in it. The one with Krumholtz and Milioti. I want to watch THAT show! This show is dumb, has nothing going for it, and the attempts at jokes are painful. Ok fine, Aparna Nancherla is funny. That's it!