> > Well, the whole sixth season has just been between lame and brutally unfunny. There > have been episodes, that had glimpses of the past greatness though. I have no idea > why the critics love this show. After the second movie it went straight downhill. > Pretty sad since the last regular episode before they got cancelled was the best one > ever. A lot of the recent new shows, that got slammed by critics and/or were even > cancelled pretty had more sparks going each episode than Futurama has in its total TV > run since coming back from the grave.
The problem with Futurama is that they decided to renew it a full 6 years after it's cancellation. A show needs momentum for good stories, you can't start and stop and change format two or three times like it has. The reason that the Family Guy renewal (no judging about the show) went so much better is that they retained 100% of the writers when it came back, and even then it took a year or so for it to get back up to speed.
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