Rob McElhenney’s DNA is all over the new trailer for Mythic Quest
Apple TV+’s video game comedy returns for season three
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For the last two seasons, Mythic Quest, like For All Mankind, played second fiddle to Apple TV’s most popular shows: Ted Lasso and Severance. So it only seems fitting that show creator Rob McElhenney, a television superpower with 150,000 seasons of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia under his belt, would take a little from their success.
No, we’re not talking about the apparently legal Ryan Reynolds’ social experiment, Welcome To Wrexham. We’re talking about the trailer for season three of Mythic Quest. Opening in a stark white hallway lined with black and white portraits of humanity’s heroes, Mythic Quest looks like it was shot at Severance. More likely, they’re mocking the walls of Apple Park, the $5 billion office designed by Jony Ive, which famously had windows so seamless and clean that employees were injuring themselves by walking into them.
Mythic Quest season three brings Ian and Poppy (Rob McElhenney and Charlotte Nicdao) to their new offices, where they will craft their new passion project, Hera. Meanwhile, across town, David (David Hornsby) is quietly crushing it at running the in-universe video game Mythic Quest. That is until he re-hires Brad (Danny Pudi), who appears as malevolent and conniving as ever. Poor, stupid David.
Here’s the synopsis:
In season three, as Ian and Poppy navigate the gaming world and their partnership at the newly formed GrimPop Studios, Dana is forced to play mediator to her bosses’ incessant bickering. Back at Mythic Quest, David settles into his new role as the boss where he truly finds himself in charge for the first time with Jo returning as his assistant — more loyal and militant than ever; and Carol attempts to figure out where she fits in after a new promotion. At Berkeley, Rachel struggles to balance her morals with capitalism, while a post-prison Brad tries to return to society as a reformed man.
Season two of Mythic Quest brought the show to even greater heights, frequently upending our understanding of what a workplace sitcom about video games can be. Some episodes can be about inspiration striking because you see Pong for the first time. Others, as advertised in the new trailer, can feature Joe Manganiello.
Mythic Quest returns on November 11.
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Wait, you mean he . . . EEEW!
Let’s just say this isn’t the first time Rob has left his DNA all over a trailer.
“Okay, just to be clear: a deposit’s a load, right?”
“David (David Hornsby) is quietly crushing it at running the in-universe video game Mythic Quest.”There is no way that Cricket is successfully running anything. FAKE NEWS!
which famously had windows so seamless and clean that employees were injuring themselves by walking into them.I was confused by how this could be, so I clicked the link there, and yeah, the ai that wrote this column decided to change glass doors and glass walls into “windows” randomly, because that is what it knows to be made of glass. The headlin of the linked article uses doors. Then the body of it uses both doors and walls. Never once is the word window or windows used.It makes absolutely zero sense. If a window was super clean, you would be able to see a large hole in a wall, and you would not walk into it, because why would you try to step through a window shaped hole in a wall? But a door or wall made of glass, yes, you would obviously walk into on account of not noticing that it’s there.
It’s astonishing how little this guy gives a fuck. I cared more about the quality of my work when I stocked shelves at Dollar Tree
It’s even less than not giving a fuck. He could have just copy and pasted something from the article he linked and put forth no effort, but instead he went out of his way to change it to be stupidly wrong.
Okay this is good news because I didn’t even know Mythic Quest was getting another season. Cannot recommend the show highly enough – I don’t play video games of any kind and barely understand that world, but the characters are great and the show makes the game interesting for me. (I understand the football games on Friday Night Lights, but not any real football games – so it’s possible that Mythic Quest style gaming is actually boring?)
Its less about playing games , and more about the politics of making them, which from what I know of local gamedevs , is fairly on point.
Same. I don’t play video games either and the show has been a blast.
I think that last seasons Backstory episode not being awarded anything is a crime.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14596556/
“Rob McElhenney’s DNA is all over the new trailer for Mythic Quest”
nvm
There really, really, had to be a better way to word that headline.