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If you like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Silicon Valley you might want to check out Mythic Quest (www.imdb.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel like it leans more into the latter as a kind of tech industry comedy. It stars Rob McElhenney who played Mac in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and I feel like a lot of the humor his character adds is present in Mythic Quest.

I wanted to share this because I was pleasantly surprised by Mythic Quest and I feel like other people who are looking for a lighthearted comedy to watch might enjoy it.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I like it. It's generally a decent workplace comedy, kind of a Silicon Valley with the edges filed down (and occasionally the serial numbers filed off), and then every once in a while they hit you with some awesome writing, though it's perhaps telling that two of their strongest episodes (s1 and s2 stand-alones) have absolutely no one from the regular cast, and the s2 one has some great work from Silicon Valley's Josh Brener. I gather people actually in game development don't find that aspect very realistic.

I wouldn't subscribe to Apple TV for it, but it's worth checking out. I do think the shine is off the rose with man-child tech entrepreneurs since the show was first developed, though.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

man-child tech entrepreneurs

I was watching it for Poppy Lee.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fair, and Charlotte Nicdao deserves more parts in bigger projects, but Ian is definitely, on net, a character we're supposed to root for while many of his real world inspirations are... not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

To be honest the first time I watched S1, I sort of read him as more of a deuteragonist, he's so ridiculous. I only really warmed to him once Poppy does.

There are so many characters with preposterous personalities - him, CW, Brad... for me Poppy's trajectory is the A plot and the testers are the main B plot.

That doesn't mean it's what the writers necessarily intended, though.