Apple’s streaming giant explores the everyday life of the renowned game studio behind one of the world’s most critically acclaimed RPGs in Mythic Quest. Mythic Quest is a show that carefully caters to a wide audience despite being set around video games. With a varied, compelling cast of characters, gripping narrative and inside scoop of how game studios work while touching on current gaming trends, the show finds a decent balance between educating and informing the viewer and providing laughs. Even if you aren’t a gamer or a fan of video games, the show’s characterization, comedic delivery, and building storyline is plenty of excuse to binge-watch.
The Storyline
The new concept of the story of making a game, with such different minds and ideas, and the clashing of those ideas made it a hilarious one, especially for Poppy. This is the backstory of people in a game development company who made a game, Mythic Quest, and are facing so many problems. It feels like Hollywood could have made this a big screen movie if streaming video games, the personalities and self-made celebrities that do were just a little more mainstream for Hollywood.
The Best Part
The show’s most intriguing aspect, however, is its ability to create an accurate depiction of what happens behind closed doors in a big-budget game studio. The struggles are all quite real, from excessive monetization to privacy breaches to challenging community feedback. All aspects that not only inform but entertain to a damn great degree.
Coming from the minds of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, there was a lot of potential riding on this tech sitcom. Fortunately, their creativity paid off once again thanks to characterization from the tremendous cast of characters, tied together with a gripping narrative.
The Loopholes
It jumps back halfway when it explores the lives of another set of game developers. The episode specifically has a much darker tone, stressing on the conflicts between creative and corporate mindsets.
The rest of the season in comparison, feels tonally different by being a bit more lighthearted, which works well for the show but felt off-putting after the standalone episode. In addition, the humor doesn’t always land. Some jokes lack that extra kick and feel underwhelming in the delivery at times, while others make their mark.
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The Characters
Rob and Ian force you to “noodle” on the unbelievable giant that is video gaming. From the minds of Charlie Day and Rob McElhenney (Always Sunny in Philadelphia), with great actors involved like Danny Pudi (Community) and Murray Abraham. The cast is well diverse in character personalities, some good actors, and some new ones that did well.
IMDb Rating – 7.7/10
Written by Nilesh Shiv