Kevin C. Wong

Apple TV+ - Mythic Quest s3 (2022) [/]

Mythic Quest is a half hour workplace comedy set at a small game software company devoted to their massively-multiplayer online game Mythic Quest. It's one of those comedies where it's mostly about how the zany characters interact with each other. Season one and two sort of themed about the difficulties of creating new content to maintain player base and how influencers can kill your numbers.

At the end of season two Ian Grimm (Rob McElhenney), creator of Mythic Quest and founder of the studio, and Rachel (Ashly Burch), lead developer, get bored with their job and decide to leave and form a new game studio. In this season Ian and Rachel create a new game, try to get funding, lose their focus and have to pivot while very slowly maybe there's a relationship developing between them. Meanwhile back in the old studio David Brittlesbee (David Hornsby) is now the head and his big project is the Mythic Quest movie while the game itself is slowly losing numbers.

I feel the first season or so was very good. Season two maybe it got a bit old hence the big change in season three (and season two ended at a good point should the series had been cancelled). Season three the changes are maybe not enough to bring it back to season one freshness but at least it's a different look at game studio antics. I guess since they knew the show was renewed for season three and four at the same time they could do a two-phase story so season three ends in a bit of a surprise turn. Maybe with season four these two seasons will be better.

Anyways, not trying to be too negative. I guess I feel this series would have been better as a one-season and done story rather than a multi-year.