I felt the first season of "Mythic Quest" just about did enough to keep me from stopping watching, but the show improved immeasurably following the quarantine special and became funnier, more interesting and more tonally consistent. This third run continues on the good work of the second.
With Ian (Rob McElhenney) and Poppy (Charlotte Nicdao) having left to establish their new company, David (David Hornsby) is now in control of Mythic Quest. With their creative direction gone, the team struggle to provide worthwhile new content for the players, but a potential movie adaptation provides David with a distraction. Ian and Poppy are struggling too, to decide exactly what their new game should be like.
I'm tempted to just say that it's more of the same and leave it at that - but I prefer about three hundred words and I'm only halfway there. "Mythic Quest" made its positive steps at the end of season one, when it decided to make the characters a little more rounded and to make the overall tone of the show a touch more genial. That this is another season like that is good, even if perhaps it leaves some of its better ideas behind too quickly. The movie adaptation, for example, could have been years of plot had it run on in the background - guest stars, side episodes, etc - but it's abandoned, for what is ostensibly likely a reset for season four.
The season does keep up the habit of an episode away from the main cast, this time it's a trip into the upbringing of both Ian and Poppy, to see a little about why they are how they are. These episodes have traditionally been a highlight of the seasons and though I don't think this one was as markedly better as the others have been, it was still probably the highlight of the run.
Whilst I'd definitely accept that "Mythic Quest" is someway below the top tier sitcoms, I certainly enjoy it enough that I'd keep watching when season four arrives.
With Ian (Rob McElhenney) and Poppy (Charlotte Nicdao) having left to establish their new company, David (David Hornsby) is now in control of Mythic Quest. With their creative direction gone, the team struggle to provide worthwhile new content for the players, but a potential movie adaptation provides David with a distraction. Ian and Poppy are struggling too, to decide exactly what their new game should be like.
I'm tempted to just say that it's more of the same and leave it at that - but I prefer about three hundred words and I'm only halfway there. "Mythic Quest" made its positive steps at the end of season one, when it decided to make the characters a little more rounded and to make the overall tone of the show a touch more genial. That this is another season like that is good, even if perhaps it leaves some of its better ideas behind too quickly. The movie adaptation, for example, could have been years of plot had it run on in the background - guest stars, side episodes, etc - but it's abandoned, for what is ostensibly likely a reset for season four.
The season does keep up the habit of an episode away from the main cast, this time it's a trip into the upbringing of both Ian and Poppy, to see a little about why they are how they are. These episodes have traditionally been a highlight of the seasons and though I don't think this one was as markedly better as the others have been, it was still probably the highlight of the run.
Whilst I'd definitely accept that "Mythic Quest" is someway below the top tier sitcoms, I certainly enjoy it enough that I'd keep watching when season four arrives.