Our First Look at Matt Groening’s New Netflix Show Disenchantment
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As part of its plan to sign up every prominent creator ever, Netflix will be releasing Matt Groening’s first new show since Futurama this August. All 10 episodes of Disenchantment’s first season will hit the streaming service on August 17, 2018; a second season has already been locked up for the future. And after intense fan speculation on what the show might look like, Netflix and Groening have finally given the world a glimpse of the Simpsons creator’s new characters.
They, uh, look pretty familiar.
Obviously if you get Matt Groening you’re going to want that Matt Groening aesthetic: the big round eyes, the overbite, the sense that this exact same drawing could’ve shown up in a Life is Hell strip 35 years ago. You’ll want the style that the world recognizes from The Simpsons and Futurama. So of course Disenchantment’s going to give that to you.
Here’s how Netflix describes Disenchantment, which features the vocal talents of Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson, Eric Andre and Nat Faxon, in its press release:
In Disenchantment, viewers will be whisked away to the crumbling medieval kingdom of Dreamland, where they will follow the misadventures of hard-drinking young princess Bean, her feisty elf companion Elfo, and her personal demon Luci. Along the way, the oddball trio will encounter ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, walruses, and lots of human fools./p>
