Futurama "The Impossible Stream" Review

 

There are so few shows out there that come back from being cancelled even fewer that come back from being cancelled two or more times. Well one of those shows is now back once again with new episodes which does make this show one of the very few shows that are the little shows that could as no matter how many times they get knocked down they just keep on coming back for more and so then join me as I review the episode that sees the Planet Express crew tackle the world of streaming with the episode in question being called simply just "The Impossible Stream" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is after realizing he's been in the future for ten years and doesn't have a life goal Fry sets about watching every TV show ever made. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with this episodes plot being really enjoyable and really ridiculous but in a good way in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this episode is the great Billy West as Philip J. Fry , Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth and Dr. John A. Zoidberg. Also starring in this episode is the great Katey Sagal as Turanga Leela , the great John DiMaggio as Bender Bending Rodriguez , the great Phil LaMarr as Hermes Conrad , Lauren Tom as Amy Wong , the great Maurice LaMarche as The Scary Mirror Narrator , Calculon and Morbo , the great Tress MacNeille as Smiri and Linda Van Schoonhoven , David Herman as Scruffy and the great Dan Castellaneta as Robot Devil.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured /  presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Which isn't all the surprising given that alot of this episodes cast members have been playing these characters since 1999 and so they would of course turn in a good performance as they would know what performance would best fit the character in any given scene.

Doing the animation not only for this episode but possibly the show as a whole is Rough Draft Studios, INC and Rough Draft Korea. Now then interms if what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty alot better then what it really had any right to be even tho this show has always had some really good animation to it the show itself isn't really known for it's quality animation. 

This is about the third or maybe even fourth time that this show has been brought back from being cancelled. With the show being picked up and cancelled so many times that it's hard to believe that anybody else would pick this show up but alas here we are and this little show which by all rights should have been long dead by now is not only still going strong but is thriving thanks to it's very passionate fanbase who got so upset when it was first announced that John DiMaggio wasn't coming back that Hulu pretty much had to give John DiMaggio the role back again even tho he didn't get the pay rise that he requested.

Futurama from what I can remember about it has always been a pretty timeless show and that timelessness  does seem to still be a thing with this episode. With the writing team only updating what it is that they take shots at but still taking shots at anyone and everyone and while this episode does seem tame by the standards of their other episodes when this episode truly gets bonkers and insane is where it also gets to be the most fun but I would have liked it if we had some character moments just to give us a reason to keep on coming back to watch the rest of the new episodes.

According to the shows official press release this season of the show will be very for new viewers to pick up. Which I don't think is true as just by this episode alone there are alot of questions that a newcomer to the franchise would ask and all of which are answered in previous episodes which is a shame because this show has the opportunity to attract a new fanbase that will hopefully keep it going but it's something that I can't really see it doing just due to how difficult it is for possible new fans to keep up with the plot of the show.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty four minuets and thirty one seconds. Which was a tad bit on the short side as this episode did have quite alot of things to set up and I dont really think that it could do all of that and still a really good story at the same time with even it's central take on streaming feeling really underdeveloped and just there for the sake of the plot needing some drama and nothing more then that and this episode isn't helped by it's really fast pacing either with the episode just rushing from plot point tom plot point.

So now then since this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episodes satire being painfully funny with every single one of this episodes jokes not only landing but landing hard and landing often as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this episode is not the return of a classic animated series but it's also a return to form with the show still being as good and as relevant as it ever was and ever will be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does infact mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Futurama fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.

My First Impressions Of The Helstrom TV Series

 

Ladies and gentlemen we are in a time where there are alot of comic book adaptations be they happening on film or TV. Well now there's a new comic book adaptation on the loose and since there are no new comic book adaptations coming out until at least next year you just no that I had to take a look at this one just because it's new content and in a year where new content is hard to come across we have to take it where we can and so here are my first impressions of the Helstrom TV seires which is also called "Helstrom" enjoy this post everyone.

Now here is where I would normally tell you the plot of the episdoe as well as give you my thoughts on it. Which for me at least is a hige red flag since even debut episodes need to have some sort of story and yet this one doesn't bother to even have that which now makes me wonder if the same is going to true for the rest of this shows first season since if the debut episode doesn't have a story then what's to say that the rest of the episodes don't have a story as well.

Starring in this episode and the rest of the series is Tom Austen as Daimon Helstrom and Sydney Lemmon as Ana Helstrom. Also starring in this episode and thus the rest of the series is Elizabeth Marvel as Victoria Helstrom , Robert Wisdom as Caretaker , Ariana Guerra as Gabriella Rosetti , June Carryl as Louise Hastings and Alain Uy as Chris Yen. With some of this episodes gues stars being Jesse James Baldwin as Archer Cavallo , Daniel Cudmore as Keith Spivey , Sandy Robson as Alex Tilden and Eric Gustaffson as Edward Tate.

As for what I thought about the acting in this episode it was honestly alot better then what I was expecting it to be. Which to be fair I wasn't expecting the acting to be that good and so to see acting that's actually above passable is for me a good thing and it does give me hope that the acting in this series is at least good but given that the acting in most Marvel TV shows ranges from OK to bad I don't hold up much hope.

For those that don't know this show isn't based on any one particular comic book but is instead based on the characters of Daimon and Satana Hellstrom. I honestly have no idea what books these characters have appeared in nor do I want to find out what the books that these characters have appeared are like just because I want this show to standout on it's own since it's rare as hell to find a comic book show that isn't based of a comic book series.

This was the last show to be made by Marvel Television who produced every single live action Marvel TV show upuntil this point. Since from Wandavision onwards each TV show will now be produced by Marvel Studios and thus each of those live action TV shows will officialy be canon in the realm of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it also means that each of these shows are going to have big budgets since cheap Ike Puearlmutter won't be controlling any of those shows thank freaking goodness.

This is as far as I can tell the first TV show (be it live action or animated) that Marvel have produced however I could be wrong when I say that. I will say that it was brave of Marvel to take on the world of horror since horror fans are the most obssesive fans I can think of and i'm saying that as a horror fan as such I do feel that it would have been very easy for Marvel not to lean on the horror aspect of this show to much.

Now then boys and girls since there is a horror element to this show that does mean that I have to talk about the scares in this episode. I honestly feel that the scares were pretty decent at best which was honestly alot better then what I was expecting them to be to be honest since i was going into this episode expecting the scares to be the typical supernatural jump scares which yeah there are some of those scares but then there are some really cool deaths and gore as well which for me makes all the difference.

I'll be honest another red flag for me is that I found this episode to be pretty freaking boring at times which is not a good thing. Part of what makes it boring is the fact that the episode has no plot to speak of and so all your left doing is counting down the minuets until something happens which really doesn't help things because very little actually happens in this episode and so your just waiting for something that's never going to happen.

This episode was fifty five minuets long which for me at least was a bit of an issue for the exact same reason as to why I found the episode boring. To me there was no need to make the episodes for this show an hour long esoically since your debut episode doesn't have a plot and so I honstly feel that this episode should have been at least twenty minuets if not thirty minuets since at least then the episode would be over pretty quickly and the episode wouldn't drag for large amounts of time because that also happens and it happens alot in this episode.

Overall in terms of debut episodes this one was really freaking since it only fails to do all of things that a debut episdoe should do in my opinion. It also fails to be entertaining and while it does have a few good things in this episode episode which i've covered in this post it also has alot more bad things in the episdoe which just like the good things i've covered in this post and since this is only my first impressions of the show I won't give the episode or show a rating just because the show could get better in later episodes and it wouldn't be fair of me to judge an entire show just of the first episode alone and i'll only watch the rest of the series if I hear enough good thing about the show.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page or Google Images. It honestly doesn't matter where you get the images for this episode from since there are both the same in terms of quality but I will give an ever so slight edge to Google Images just because they have more images from the episode and the show as a whole where as the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page doesn't have that many or at least from I found the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page doesn't have that many images from either this episode or the Helstrom TV show as a whole.