Apple TV+’s Mythic Quest is an admirable attempt to mock video game culture

It might be always sunny in Philly, but it's sometimes cloudy in Mythic Quest

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Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, Apple TV+’s latest original TV series, feels like a modern take on 2006’s now extremely dated video game tester, stoner comedy Grandma’s Boy, combined with the social commentary and wit of HBO’s Silicon Valley. This is great, given that the video game industry is in dire need of a TV show that mocks and shines a light on its most significant issues, but unfortunately, Mythic Quest also often misses the mark.

While critics have mostly panned Apple TV+’s initial TV show offerings, I fall decidedly in the other camp.

The Morning Show didn’t resonate with me at all (in fact, I’d go so far as to say that I hate it), but I found Dickinson, For All Mankind and even See all thoroughly enjoyable, and — with the final show in this list being the only exception — comparable to prestige television shows found on competing platforms like Netflix and HBO. (I know See isn’t great, but I still find its inherent only-a-few-people-have-sight concept incredibly compelling).