Mike Judge and Greg Daniels will be doing it, but I still don’t know how I feel about it. It’s one of my, if not my favorite show. I guess them being in charge gives me some reassurance that it’s not going to be complete trash. Sorry if this is the wrong comm, I wasn’t sure where to post this.
I love King of the Hill and Mike Judge has a lot of great American satire, but I don't have particularly high hopes for this. Aside from just being fatigued with the amount of reboots, revivals, and remakes, I feel like some of his recent work misses the marks he used to hit. Particularly Silicon Valley. Office Space was great because it made fun of stupid companies full of drones wasting their time working for scumbag bureaucrats while there was a real life out there waiting for all of them. Silicon Valley points out some of the stupidity in startup culture, like the delusions of grandeur held by tech CEOs and the constant flow of pointless products coming from the tech sector, but it also props up a Zuckerberg-like character as its protagonist and hints at the idea that venture capitalism isn't inherently bad because there's one or two "good" venture capitalists. By the end of the show's run, it kind of seemed like they were celebrating Silicon Valley culture as a totally zany but necessary and good thing. It just didn't pack the same satirical punch I had come to expect from Mike Judge.
Judge was less involved with it by the end iirc. It also very much started off at a time when Zuck wasn’t yet publicly viewed as a supervillain. How far left is Judge politically? He seems like DemSoc at best.
That explains why the last couple of seasons were a little lackluster.
Yeah. To really nail it, the last couple seasons would need to be the main characters becoming increasingly more alienated from their own labor, paralyzed within a machine that has grown around them and intwined with their organs, isolating each of them within their own departments. On paper, they have immense power, but no attempts at change or reform they make ever seem to really work. There’s a lot of potential for dark comedy there, but it’s depressing.
Judge is basically your bog-standard American Southern Conservative Lib
No real backbone, doesn't think anything is wrong with the system, just that it's run by people who aren't as smart as him
Other than that, you get the idea that he doesn't actually think about politics all that much.
Especially since he guested on InfoWars once or twice
Ah that makes a lot of sense actually. It really didn't feel much like his work by the end of it. I'd have to rewatch to get a feel for the tone in the earlier seasons. DemSoc at best for sure. I remember reading that he's a libertarian but that's not really the impression I get from his work.