Kings of the Hill, Again: Greg Daniels, Mike Judge Discuss Their New Animation Company (Exclusive)
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Their company, Bandera, will exec produce ‘Bad Crimes,’ a comedy starring Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus, as its second show, with others — including a children’s show from Sacha Baron Cohen and Alison Bechdel’s ‘Dykes to Watch Out For’ — also in the works.

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.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    King of the Hill is probably my favorite cartoon of all time. It's the most scathingly accurate portrayal of white folk problems. I don't know how well it would work now because part of the show was how charmingly clueless the characters were. They meant well, but would default to a kind of suburban Texan conservatism. There was that one episode where Hank got terrified because Luanne put a "vote communist" sign in the front yard, but the politics were never really addressed, Hank is just kind of naive and goofy. He's got naive white guy racism, like when he asks Khan if he's Chinese or Japanese. Hank's dad is an outright racist who killed fitty men. Peggy is a goofball racist who believes herself to be an honorary Mexican. Etc etc

    Those same suburban confused conservatives have all mostly morphed into outright vocal racists or Qanon conspiracy theorists now. It's no longer charming cluelessness, or rather, now we see it never really was. It was always white supremacist imperialism, we could just laugh at how silly it was.

    King of the Hill bowed out at exactly the right time.

    • necrocop [he/him,any]
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      3 years ago

      Very well put. I think no matter how they do new episodes, it’s going to be a stain on the series. They were truly characters of a different era. I don’t really want to see where they are at today. I don’t see them doing any political commentary that isn’t cringe. I mean they could attempt to skirt politics and just to sitcom style satire, but I don’t think that would feel true to the series. There was always at least an underlying political line in the show. There’s definitely lots of episodes that weren’t. But it was always an aspect. I’m just not very convinced that this will be good. Even with the original creators behind it. But I am hopeful because it’s like, maybe my favorite show ever.