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I don’t often write about the fourth season of a television show because my focus is on video games. But season 4 of Mythic Quest is another matter.
The series premieres on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes on January 29th and brings back the workplace comedy about a video game studio. The ensemble cast returns with stars including Rob McElhenney (as moody creative director Ian Grimm) and Charlotte Nicdao (tech lead Poppy Li) and more. The show is good at skewering the sometimes ridiculous culture of the video game industry, and it hits the spot since it was originally created by Ubisoft.
The show is silly as always, but I like that one of the opening scenes is about Play Pen, a user-generated content gimmick aimed at revitalizing the studio’s core online game. In the second episode, all users are busy making sex games and the studio has to figure out what to do about it. David enlists the help of the studio’s ethics committee to find the answer. And of course, AI is the next big trend skewered on the show.
Game tester Rachel (played by Ashly Burch) has now been named the studio’s head of monetization. She’ll have a hard time being nastier than Brad Bakshi (played by Dani Pudi) when it comes to making money.
The head of the studio, David Brittlesbee (played by David Hornsby, executive producer), remains stuck between the studio heads and corporate headquarters. It’s still all too real when it comes to references to silly things happening in the gaming industry. I looked at it under preview.
The opening show, “Boundaries,” explains the new responsibilities and boundaries the characters draw as their lives change. Ian and Poppy rejoined the studio after setting up on their own. But Poppy, the eternal programming workaholic, isn’t working so hard anymore because she has a new boyfriend. What’s interesting is that the show acknowledges real problems in game development, like too much crunch or long, often unpaid work hours. So of course Poppy creates an AI version of herself to do the work for her and help Ian with his brilliant pranks in the middle of the night.
The season will consist of 10 episodes, with the final one arriving on Apple TV+ on March 26th.
Mythic Quest is produced by McElhenney and Charlie Day under their RCG banner, Michael Rotenberg and Nicholas Frenkel on behalf of 3Arts, and Margaret Boykin, Austin Dill and Gérard Guillemot for Ubisoft Film & Television. Hornsby and Megan Ganz also executive produce. The series is produced for Apple TV+ by Lionsgate, 3 Arts Entertainment and Ubisoft. The first three seasons of Mythic Quest now streaming worldwide on Apple TV+.
In the new season there is also an expansion of the show Mythic Quest Universe, Side questwhich examines the lives of staff, players and fans affected by the game in an anthology format. If you constantly need a break from CNN/Fox News and our current political landscape, I recommend you Mythic Quest as a nice change.
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