• The Simpsons. Let it die, Fox/Disney.
  • Futurama. The Fox seasons is it’s golden age. Now the show is sci-fi South Park. They have a show set in the future, but the writers make episodes based on the present.
  • The Walking Dead. TWD dyed in season 2. They made 13 episodes out of 6 issues of the comic. It was poorly written, characters act like idiots, and the twist in Episode 7. You can see it coming from a mile away.
  • LanternEverywhere@kbin.social
    10·
    1 year ago

    They have a show set in the future, but the writers make episodes based on the present.

    That’s what it’s always been since day 1.

    • DarienGS@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      In the early days they did satirise current issues, but it mostly seemed to be through a lens of 31st-century technology or social conventions. Nowadays, the future setting often just feels like window dressing for a story that’s really entirely about the present.