Futurama has accidentally become a fascinating document of social change - eviltoast
The acclaimed adult cartoon has been brought back from the dead – and not for the first time. It’s never going to recapture the brilliance of the original run, writes Louis Chilton, but the series’ stop-start history has made it a compelling record of changing cultural obsessions

I’ve just found this article about Futurama on The Independent, a UK newspaper. It comments on the changes in Futurama reflecting the changes in society in general.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    They had ads in streaming before anyone else. Netflix and (I think) Disney copied them, but they were first. I’ll never give them money.

    • Timo@mastodon.sdf.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      @some_guy @BettyWhiteInHD the ads are very important to Disney /Hulu. I subscribed to ESPN+ and added the Disney/Hulu bundle. It’s the adverts Disney. It turns out Disney won’t air the adverts package on Roku, only the no ads streaming channel. Which implies the two companies probably had a argument about who gets the advertising revenue. We had to go to the smart TV to watch the adverts Disney.