7/10
Amazing satire dragged down by a clunky Randy B-plot
29 October 2023
The Panderverse plot and the diverse women replacing the main characters in the alternate universe had so much unused potential. The culprit? Randy. This "Event" was basically an episode that was a hilarious take on Hollywood's lazy and half-assed embrace of supposed diversity, and a Randy episode where he's frustrated by the changing world. Unfortunately, the Randy storyline was given WAY too much time and just cumbersome. I loved the Panderverse part of the episode but they could have done so much more with it had we not had to keep checking in on Randy and his problems with AI or whatever his issue was (completely forgettable plot). They sort of tied the plots together at the end but the Randy story was so far removed from the much better Panderverse story that it stopped the event dead in its tracks.

Randy needs to appear way less. We have enough cartoons about dumb dads doing dumb things (family guy, simpsons, American dad...). Randy stories are about as exciting as Meg episodes on family guy.

In summary: We could have had so much more fun in the Panderverse but instead we got 20 minutes of Randy getting pissed about billionaires or something (I skipped through his parts when rewatching-makes the episode so much better)
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