"Simpsons creator Matt Groening's next animated series will arrive on Netflix on
August 17, the streaming service confirmed via Twitter on Wednesday. Netflix also
took the opportunity to reveal a few preview screens of the fantasy-obsessed series, which—as we expected—looks like Tolkien through a bug-eyed, Simpsons/Futurama filter.

The series' title, Disenchantment, along with its cast and concept, were announced
last summer. Groening has been joined by longtime Simpsons showrunner Josh Weinstein and a remarkable number of Futurama animators and voice actors to build
a new elves-and-castles-and-dragons cartoon series. Disenchantment's three primary
voice actors, meanwhile, are relative newcomers to the Groening animation universe, with Abby Jacobson (Broad City) voicing the princess Bean, Nat Faxon as
the shrimpy elf named, er, Elfo, and Eric Andre as a trickster demon named Luci."

See:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/05/matt-groenings-first-fantasy-cartoon-series-finally-has-release-date-screens/

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Matt Groening's 'Disenchantment' Gets Its First Trailer:

"When it comes to television, Matt Groening is batting a thousand. His first animated creation, The Simpsons, is about to enter its 30th season, and Futurama
developed such a strong cult following that it was brought back from the dead a

couple times. Now Groening, eschewing the usual basic cable approach, is bring his
next project, called Disenchantment, to Netflix—and today we finally got our first
look."

See:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/tv/a21990863/matt-groening-disenchantment/

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Netflix Debuts Official Disenchantment Trailer at Comic-Con 2018:

"Netflix debuted the first official trailer for Matt Groening's new series, Disenchantment, at San Diego Comic-Con 2018. Disenchantment is Groening's first new project in almost 20 years, and it's the first time that the infamous creator
of The Simpsons and Futurama has collaborated with Netflix. Although the project
was first announced over a year ago, people didn't get their first look at Disenchantment until just two months ago."

See:

https://screenrant.com/disenchantment-trailer-comic-con-2018-netflix/

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From: ANTant@zimage.com

It looks decent. I will check it out. What about the rest of you?


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Netflix Debuts Official Disenchantment Trailer at Comic-Con 2018:

"Netflix debuted the first official trailer for Matt Groening's new series, Disenchantment, at San Diego Comic-Con 2018. Disenchantment is Groening's

first

new project in almost 20 years, and it's the first time that the infamous

creator

of The Simpsons and Futurama has collaborated with Netflix. Although the

project

was first announced over a year ago, people didn't get their first look at Disenchantment until just two months ago."

See:

https://screenrant.com/disenchantment-trailer-comic-con-2018-netflix/

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Matt Groening goes back to the drawing board for ‘Disenchantment’:

"'The Simpsons' creator discusses his new Netflix series, love of fantasy novels
and dying with a Homer mask on"

"In many ways, the series is Groening’s most ambitious to date, trading in the
streets of Springfield and pneumatic tubes of New New York for a fantasy world somewhere between Westeros and Middle Earth. It’s a genre he says he’s been

looking to tackle for decades, but had never found the right outlet. And while the new series exists in a world familiar to fantasy fans, it rarely butts up against direct parody of beloved properties.

“I’ve been thinking about fantasy for a long time,” Groening says. “Some of my
favorite forms of entertainment are fantasy, starting with Fractured Fairy Tales
on the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show, to Monty Python and the Holy Grail to the

original Wizard of Oz film and novels by Terry Pratchett and Gene Wolfe.”

Disenchantment is a tricky cocktail to get just right — a fairy tale adventure
mixture, spiked with solid punch lines. “I try to incorporate all of that as inspiration and then try not to do straight parody,” says Groening. “The problem
with comedy is that just getting the genre is very easy and only goes a little ways. So, what we do is try to get people on board with the fantasy characters and make them as emotional real as possible.”"

See:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/03/matt-groening-goes-back-to-the-drawing-board-for-disenchantment/

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Disenchantment review: Groening’s new Netflix toon is off to a bloody
good start:

""The Simpsons meets Game of Thrones" sounds like one of those Netflix ideas generated by bots (a tactic that Netflix has employed in the past). That kind of
experiment, as cute as it sounds at first blush, could flop if it stitches two dissimilar series together in messy fashion. But the team behind Disenchantment,
the first Matt Groening animated series since Futurama launched in 1999, seems blissfully unaware of hot TV trends—and is all the better for it.

Groening's first-ever non-network series debuts on Netflix on August 17 as a 10-
episode "half-season," and we've reviewed seven of those episodes ahead of the formal launch. From what we've seen thus far, Disenchantment wins by establishing friendships between unique, likable characters—and then leading them to their basest urges."

See:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/disenchantment-review-groenings-new-netflix-toon-is-off-to-a-bloody-good-start/

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Disenchantment May Not Enchant Hardcore Fantasy Fans:

"Science fiction author Robert Repino had high expectations for Disenchantment,

the new animated series from Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama. Unfortunately, he was underwhelmed by the show’s early episodes.

“I counted four episodes that ended with a very slow-moving, sloppy, contrived
action scene,” Repino says in Episode 324 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

podcast.

And while Futurama episodes like “The Prisoner of Benda” and “Meanwhile”
demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of science fiction tropes, Disenchantment never shows much familiarity with the fantasy genre."

See:

https://www.wired.com/2018/09/geeks-guide-robert-repino/

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From: travoltron@defender.uni

On 9/1/2018 7:19 PM, dumpster4@hotmail.com wrote:

https://www.wired.com/2018/09/geeks-guide-robert-repino/

That's a fair review of the show. I felt pretty much the same way they did.

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From: ANTant@zimage.com

I only saw its pilot episode. It was OK. I was told it gets better?


Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:

It looks decent. I will check it out. What about the rest of you?

dumpster4@hotmail.com wrote:

Netflix Debuts Official Disenchantment Trailer at Comic-Con 2018:

"Netflix debuted the first official trailer for Matt Groening's new series, Disenchantment, at San Diego Comic-Con 2018. Disenchantment is Groening's

first

new project in almost 20 years, and it's the first time that the infamous

creator

of The Simpsons and Futurama has collaborated with Netflix. Although the

project

was first announced over a year ago, people didn't get their first look at Disenchantment until just two months ago."

See:

https://screenrant.com/disenchantment-trailer-comic-con-2018-netflix/

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Netflix Renews Disenchantment for Another 2-Part Season:

"The kingdom of Dreamland will remain open. Netflix has announced that Matt Groening’s fantasy series Disenchantment has been renewed for another 20-episode
season, which means we’ll be getting new episodes through at least 2021.

As revealed on Twitter, Netflix has given Disenchantment another season. But that
renewal actually guarantees two more years of the series. In the case of Disenchantment, each 20-episode season is split across two years—the second half
of the current season will return sometime in 2019. Likewise, this second season
will come out in 2020 and 2021."

See:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/netflix-renews-disenchantment-for-another-2-part-season-1829909752

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