I thought it was fine. It had some genuine laughs, especially episode six, and the only episode I didn't really like was the Tate one. Had no idea it was written by a Velma writer, but I'm not surprised.
The ENM and assorted underlying cuckery/NTR stuff was... well, I can't really say "weird" at this point, since basically everybody in the TV writing industry is out loud and proud about their cuck fetishes, but I guess it was nice that the writers didn't go too overboard with it for a change. We have a few jokes about Connie and Chane in a fuck polycule, and in fact that's almost all of Connie's personality now, but then the rest of the show goes on happily without any other adultery, except of course John Redcorn. The world is healing. A little.
There are a few "woke" references which already feel dated as fuck (the gender-neutral bathrooms joke, for example. HEY GUYS, DID YOU KNOW, THAT MODERN AUDIENCES ARE FINE WITH TRANNIES SHITTING NEXT TO WOMEN? sobs in Trump Election results and Total Terf Victory) but I chalked that up to most of the show likely being written back in 2024, when we were still living in the Bad Old Days. And even the Tate episode made SOME effort to keep the characters in-character, even though the overall message was "Tate is an incel who doesn't feminist enough" and not the real issue, "Tate is a brown faggot".
-edit- oh, AND, there's at least one "I'm a boomer, boy I tell you what; is this something to do with that Metaverse thing?" joke that felt forced as fuck. I have never heard anyone mention Metaverse outside paid product placement on old media TV - which I suppose is what this was, but still.
Also appreciate that nobody has trooned out. Yet. (or again, I guess, since technically Bill was a troon for a short period in the old series) This is doubly surprising given that Joss was shacked up with that pooner, but maybe that's coming in the next season. Or not at all. One can hope.
I didn't mind Dale's voice or the conspiracy theory stuff, although again, in light of the last year or so, many of his "conspiracy theories" already sound dated (kept waiting for an episode where Dale falls for "Russian disinformation", and iirc there was even a crack about the lab-leak hypothesis which is pretty much accepted truth at this point). The colloidal silver bit was a nice touch.
(for people who are unaware, Mike Judge was childhood friends with Alex Jones, hence the parallels between Dale and AJ)
Kahn's voice, I didn't even know he was Kahn at first.
The final scene with John Redcorn DID sound like AI, yeah, and I'm guessing that's because it probably was. Some last minute addition they tacked on (complete with a gay cuck joke) to honor Our Pal, Johnathan "Methhouse" Joss.
My biggest issue was probably the wonky timeline, which I sperged about in detail on the main KotH thread. But all in all I was pleasantly surprised with it, and I hope it picks up in the next season, like the B&B revival did, and does not fall off a fucking cliff, like the B&B revival shortly after it picked up.
