McFarlane is weird. Family Guy is shit, American Dad has managed to stay surprisingly funny (I think mainly because of the Roger character), but mostly it's all lib shit indeed; then you get The Orville. Absolutely awesome - and doubly so because you can tell it was sold as a funny-type show but you can also definitely tell that's not the direction he wanted to go with it, from the start; and it's not the one he took, especially in the very latest season.
Roger is probably one of the top 5 funniest cartoon characters of the last two decades. They didn't start that way, but by God have the writers done wonders with their characterization. Basically just a more depraved and sociopathic Bugs Bunny with just enough wit to make them tolerable for episodic focus. A perfect foil for every other character.
The Orville follows Star Trek enough that it's refreshingly leftist, but beneath the surface-level Trekisms, like a currency-less, post-scarcity society, it's still entry-level liberal politics.
That said, it's the closest thing we currently have to vintage Trek and I still love it.
McFarlane is weird. Family Guy is shit, American Dad has managed to stay surprisingly funny (I think mainly because of the Roger character), but mostly it's all lib shit indeed; then you get The Orville. Absolutely awesome - and doubly so because you can tell it was sold as a funny-type show but you can also definitely tell that's not the direction he wanted to go with it, from the start; and it's not the one he took, especially in the very latest season.
Roger is probably one of the top 5 funniest cartoon characters of the last two decades. They didn't start that way, but by God have the writers done wonders with their characterization. Basically just a more depraved and sociopathic Bugs Bunny with just enough wit to make them tolerable for episodic focus. A perfect foil for every other character.
The Orville follows Star Trek enough that it's refreshingly leftist, but beneath the surface-level Trekisms, like a currency-less, post-scarcity society, it's still entry-level liberal politics.
That said, it's the closest thing we currently have to vintage Trek and I still love it.