Is it worth watching or has the Disney takeover turned it into a safe show with diversity that loves to shove social and political issues down your throat?
I ask because I’ve read the guy who played Cleveland stepped down because God forbid he’s not black. That alone makes me not want to watch it, but I’d be willing to give it a chance if it’s all right otherwise.
I have started to rewatch this, and a couple of things surprised me.
First, there haven't been as many 'flashbacks', especially to TV shows and movies as I remember. At least early season three seems to still be pretty story-oriented (albeit borrowing from other sitcom stories - the Brian-thing reminds me of Kramer going to California).
Second, I have watched an episode here and another there from other, MUCH later seasons, and shockingly, they are filled with nonsense, incongruency, retcons and stupidity (see my post about Seasn 19 episode 01, where they claim Stewie said his _FIRST_ word, if you can believe that.. while I am just watching Season three episode two, where Stewie speaks to adult people and they laugh at his jokes - make THAT make sense..!!).
The bigger surprise is that these later season episodes are weirdly dull and lifless. It's as if they ran out of ideas and are just running on 'fumes', figuratively speaking. The whole 'cabin burned down' (ANOTHER Seinfeld rip-off, by the way) episode is as dull and boring as modern Star Wars.
I am thus hoping to get to some kind of 'golden era' with nice flashbacks, but also clever jokes and such. Stories don't really matter since haven't we all already seen all the 'stories' this kind of shows can offer and have? Nothing else about Family Guy is really worth watching besides the 'parodies', 'flashbacks' and good jokes. Everything else is pretty mediocre - the visuals are incredibly generic and boring, they could be from almost any other similar show, the animation is always sub-par (well, the 'Little House on the Prairie parody is actually stunningly gorgeous, animation-wise), sound effects stock, stories uninteresting, (voice-)acting...well, passable.
I haven't experienced much 'wokeness' so far, but I have experienced the typical 'numbers must always be masonic'-crap. Earlier, Stewie mentioned '13' and the Cleveland shaking his wife or whatever, said something about her having '11 periods left'.
Masonic numbers! Oh, noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
shareNo, it's still the same old show pretty much.
shareNo it hasn’t.
sharewhat are you talking about? this show is way more left-wing than the Simpsons
shareStill retarded, as always. Family Guy Holiday Special | Official Trailer youtube.com/watch?v=drWuVyvrOLU
shareWoke derangement syndrome on full display here in your comment
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