Mythic Quest Season 2 Repeated The Boldest Narrative Experiment From Season 1

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Rob McElhenney’s Apple series Mythic Quest is the antithesis of the subversive hit that made him a household name, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Set in the offices of a video game studio renowned for a Warcraft-style fantasy MMORPG, Mythic Quest is a more traditional workplace sitcom than Always Sunny, with characters that the audience cares about (and who care about each other) and a healthy dose of emotional closure at the end of each episode.

Mythic Quest is the kind of brightly lit show satirized in the classic Sunny episode “The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award,” but its pointed humor and bittersweet sincerity make it work beautifully. The series explores some familiar conventions of the sitcom – a will-they-won’t-they couple, an ambitious go-getter working for an egotistical boss, etc. – but it subverts expectations at every turn to avoid the genre’s clichés. A game studio is a unique workplace setting and the writers quickly honed in on the character dynamics that work the best within the first few episodes. Above all, Mythic Quest is anchored by a terrific cast filled with standout players like Charlotte Nicdao as lead engineer Poppy Li and Community’s Danny Pudi as head of monetization Brad Bakshi.

It's Always Sunny Just Wrapped Up Its Best Season In Years

While Mythic Quest is a massive tonal departure from It’s Always Sunny, McElhenney did carry over one tradition that has helped to give Sunny its impressive longevity: experimenting with new styles and formats for episodes. Both the first and second seasons of Mythic Quest have a standalone flashback episode in the middle of their run with a guest cast replacing the main actors. In both cases, the information provided by the flashbacks came back with