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Disenchantment

Name: Disenchantment
Genre: Comedy, Animation, Action & Adventure, Fantasy
Released: August 17, 2018
Rating: 56

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Disenchantment

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NETFLIX | Release Date: August 17, 2018

Summary: The Matt Groening animated comedy follows the adventures of hard-drinking Princess Bean (voiced by Abbi Jacobson), her elf Elfo (voiced by Nat Faxon), and her personal demon Luci (voiced by Eric Andre).

Creator: Matt Groening

Genre(s): Comedy, Animation, Action & Adventure, Fantasy

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S2:E10. Tiabeanie Falls
Air Date: September 20, 2019
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S2:E9. The Electric Princess
Air Date: September 20, 2019
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S2:E8. In Her Own Write
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Nick Schager

Aug 7, 2018

Season 1 Review: As far as early efforts go, Groening’s third small-screen endeavor, whose debut ten-episode run arrives on Netflix August 17, is routinely entertaining. ... And fortunately, it gets funnier as it goes along. Led by a terrific vocal cast that includes many Groening favorites. Read full review

Glenn Garvin

Sep 22, 2018

Season 1 Review: If The Simpsons and Futurama are PG-13 shows, Disenchantment is maybe PG-14, ever-so-slightly sexier and bloodier. Like the other shows, its jokes are more suggestive than bawdy. Read full review

Danette Chavez

Aug 8, 2018

Season 1 Review: Despite some snarls, we do find ourselves caring and rooting for this defiant teen, wayward elf, and conflicted demon, and it’s thanks in great part to the cast. Disenchantment has the potential to become as engrossing an updated fairy tale as it is a debauched one, without choosing between one-offs and longer arcs. Read full review

Matthew Gilbert

Aug 15, 2018

Season 1 Review: It’s somewhat entertaining, but you may feel as though you’ve seen it all done before, and better. Read full review

Sophie Gilbert

Aug 17, 2018

Season 1 Review: Disenchantment just feels full of potential that it hasn’t yet figured out. That’s maybe because it stays very much in safe territory. Read full review

Jen Chaney

Aug 16, 2018

Season 1 Review: Disenchanted doesn’t seem interested in wrestling with tropes or, for that matter, anything too deep. It’s more focused on finding easy comedy in the pockets of the universe it’s invented, which, to the credit of Rough Draft, the animation studio that brings the show to life, has an impressive, cinematic quality that outshines previous Groening projects. It’s just a shame that it doesn’t match that ambition in other areas. Read full review

Michael Starr

Aug 9, 2018

Season 1 Review: Disenchantment was billed as “an adult animated comedy fantasy series” but misses its mark, since it’s neither “adult” nor is there much comedy. The 10-episode series will appeal more to a preteen sensibility than to anyone over 14 and it’s got plenty of, well, cartoonish violence a la “Itchy and Scratchy” from “The Simpsons.” What it doesn’t have is the charm or wit of that series--either in its storyline or its characters--and mostly plods along with only the occasional throwaway line eliciting a smile. Read full review

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imjuliocesar

Sep 20, 2019

It's a very good series, really. the whole story and the characters, it's really cool to watch.

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Dharlas

Sep 24, 2019

Season 1: as the entry into the whole plot of the series it takes things very slowly and introduces the characters but it trips on this point. It re-uses a lot of voice actors from Matt's other shows and while it nice to hear the familiarity of these voices they are type cast so hard thatSeason 1: as the entry into the whole plot of the series it takes things very slowly and introduces the characters but it trips on this point. It re-uses a lot of voice actors from Matt's other shows and while it nice to hear the familiarity of these voices they are type cast so hard that they are a near parallel to their characters from the other shows. Character development is non-existent. Bean does what she wants because she is an alcoholic (a Matt staple) where she murders, destroys at whim because she just can. Nothing really stops her and she even touches on this fact negligently. She doesn't develop at all. Elfo changes slightly but even then is still bound by the chains of 'being an elf'. Luci is a demon and demons are evil, his job to corrupt Bean however could have been done by literally anything else with a half hearted malicious attempt. Definitely one of the superior characters, but entirely irrelevant as far as plot goes. One of the things this season is a true criminal for however is the wrongful usage of John DiMaggio. His character Zog (King of Dreamland and father to Bean) does nothing but yell. That I would argue is John's strong point but it's the escalation of his voice that brings real depth to the situations. But in Disenchantment all he does is yell. There is no escalation, no comedic timing its just yelling all the time and it is a waste of his efforts. The plot is barely noticeable, it bounces around until the ending of the season then wraps it all up with annoying scene changes to prevent the viewer from obtaining information which only leaves more questions, with an ending that just leaves more to be desired, and not in a good way. The 3d transition sequences are very awkward, this could just be me, but they hit the eye oddly and are to a point a bit nauseating. The first season could be just this however, the first season. An awkward first step into a new IP that will get stronger as it learns its new footing. However this is from Matt Groening. I believe he and his team are better than this. Which brings me to the final point for Season 1, the comedy (or lack thereof). The 'comedy' is so opaque its incredibly painful. I saw the jokes coming and the punchlines were so weak and obvious it was hard to enjoy them. In the entirety of this season there was one joke that actually surprised me and made me laugh. But the rest of it there was nothing to bother even mentioning. It makes blatant attempts to make jokes and its rather annoying. Perhaps if you have never watched Futurama or The Simpsons before these jokes would be enjoyable, but that doesn't help the delivery, or the impact. It was painful to watch and expect better from such a prolific series creator. Season 2: Everything that happened in towards the end of the first season gets dealt with and thrown away in the first couple episodes. So plot once more takes a back seat in this season, as they tease a new plot for a bit but never go along with it, in fact one of the new characters that starts the plot vanishes for no apparent reason, he is simply gone after starting this new adventure. The characters don't seem to change much outside of Zog who shows some actual development, albeit not very much. But some is better than none, the comedy this time around is even worse, perhaps I was not as invested going into it and paid less attention but the comedy wasn't as obvious, but it impacted just as feebly, there is not a single moment in this entire season that stands out. Elfo goes through some random developments that could be set up for something interesting, but then just resets himself as nothing ever happened. Luci gets a bar. Doesn't really impact anything just kind of happens. Its used as a staging point but it could have been used without him owning it and nothing would change. That seems to be the theme of season 2, things happening that have no purpose. Its still lackluster and could be done better in many ways, throughout the season there are multiple teases at the plot that they never touch again until the final episode, which they then leave on a cliff hanger. Which as in season 1 comes across as a desperate grab at attention to get another season, which has been already greenlit for 2020. There really isn't more to go on, the characters don't really have any growth, Bean does what Bean does. Elfo follows around as the annoying Deus Ex Machina, and Luci really sits on the sidelines this time around, more than usual, with less of a puppet master role and more of a bystander. Zog does deal with issues and grows a bit, and some of the side characters get more plot involvement, but its all teases. Some characters get even less time such as Sorcerio, I actually forgot about him in this season he was barely around. All in all Disenchantment hasn't done better going into a second season, when it didn't really have a good foothold to begin with it seems to have just stumbled even more.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

56

Series Overview
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 20, 2019
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  S2:E10. Tiabeanie Falls
  Air Date: September 20, 2019
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  S2:E9. The Electric Princess
  Air Date: September 20, 2019
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  S2:E8. In Her Own Write
  Air Date: September 20, 2019
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  S2:E7. Love's Slimy Embrace
  Air Date: September 20, 2019
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  S2:E6. The Dreamland Job
  Air Date: September 20, 2019
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  S2:E5. Our Bodies, Our Elves
  Air Date: September 20, 2019
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  S2:E4. The Lonely Heart Is a Hunter
  Air Date: September 20, 2019
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  S2:E3. The Very Thing
  Air Date: September 20, 2019
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  S2:E2. Stairway to Hell
  Air Date: September 20, 2019
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  S2:E1. The Disenchantress
  Air Date: September 20, 2019
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: August 17, 2018