Mythic Quest – Season 2 Review

Similar to Season 1, this season has another spin-off episode that takes place in a different time and with mostly different characters. This time around, it’s about a young CW becoming an author, so it’s not as out of place as A Dark Quiet Death, though A Dark Quiet Death is the better short. But I still enjoyed CW’s backstory episode. It reinvigorated what was turning out to be a dud of a season overall. I feel like Mythic Quest would have worked better as an anthology show that followed different people’s journeys through the video game industry. I honestly don’t care about Mythic Quest or its employees anymore. Like, the video game influences are bordering on the cringey side, and the office antics feel like a discount sitcom.

It doesn’t help that I hate pretty much all of the characters now. Poppy went from my favorite character in Season 1 to my least favorite. She’s started yelling every line and became a pretty mean boss to her subordinates. I don’t know why they went to the “wring comedy out of people being rude or pathetic” well, but it’s not a good look. I do commend the showrunners on playing it safe with F. Murray Abraham and COVID, even though it relegates his character to a bunch of “old people can’t use Zoom” jokes for the first half of the season. At least Backstory and Peter give him something more meaningful to do and are naturally the standout episodes. Those two episodes don’t feel like Mythic Quest at all, and that’s the problem. The core Mythic Quest story is just not that good.

Reviewer

Clark
I love gaming so much, I wrote a book about it.

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Clark

I love gaming so much, I wrote a book about it.