Mythic Quest wrapped its strong second season with a couple of daring selections that may actually act as an intriguing base for a 3rd yr with our favourite crew of online game builders, ought to Apple TV+ grant us one. Learn on for my evaluation of “TBD”:
After making up on the hospital, Ian and Poppy are formally companions once more. Eschewing their particular person tasks, they resolve to collaborate to make a single enlargement collectively, combining their two concepts into one. The instant downside they face? As quickly as they attempt to repair Poppy’s Hera enlargement, they understand that it’s unattainable to do with out fully rebuilding the MQ servers from the bottom up. Listening to this, Poppy tries her finest to deal with all her time wasted on an enlargement that couldn’t be constructed.
Rachel and Dana are making ready to maneuver to Berkeley collectively, that means that they’re each leaving their tester jobs. Accosting David, they each stop fairly ceremoniously, however Dana finds out after the truth that she didn’t get into Berkeley in spite of everything. She flies to Ian and Poppy to beg for her job again, displaying them her Grouchy Goat demo as proof that she’s going to work arduous. They each comment that her work is horrible, however when she agrees with them, they ask her why she’s continued to work on the venture though she is aware of her demo is dangerous. She admits that she will see what it’s speculated to appear like in her head, and desires to maintain at it till it’s proper. Impressed not by her work however by her “grit,” Ian and Poppy comply with pay for Dana’s education at an area programming faculty, holding her on contract at MQ till she graduates. Rachel, nonetheless, is conflicted as a result of she nonetheless desires to go to Berkeley, though Dana received’t be there. The 2 comply with be long-distance, returning to the association that they had when their roles have been reversed.
Jo data a name with Zach in an try and get him to admit to tricking her into committing a felony. He doesn’t fall for it, and Jo panics – might she actually be going to jail? Jo convinces Brad to conspire along with her and assist her incriminate Zach within the insider buying and selling scheme in a last-ditch effort to save lots of her personal pores and skin. Brad agrees, nevertheless it appears to be a entice – Brad calls the SEC and informs them himself of insider buying and selling happening at Mythic Quest. Nonetheless, when the Feds arrive, it’s not Jo they ask to speak to, however Brad: he takes the autumn for Jo, turning himself in to the Feds. When you assume that’s a bit too “not Brad,” although, don’t fear – he did it for the “avenue cred.” Brad triumphantly walks out in (faux) handcuffs as Jo hypes up how a lot of a “harmful felon” he’s.
Poppy and Ian stroll down reminiscence lane, trying over outdated artifacts of Mythic Quest’s manufacturing. With assist from C.W., the 2 understand that there’s nothing they’ll do for Mythic Quest anymore. “Raven’s Banquet is…was the tip of the story,” they understand. As David bemoans the lack of Rachel, Dana and Brad, Poppy and Ian inform him that they, too, are leaving the corporate collectively to pursue different ventures.
A heartbroken (and now principally friendless) David encounters Jo as they each go to ponder their new conditions on the roof of the constructing. Listening to about David’s numerous woes, the power-hungry Jo realizes that David is the right individual for her to control. She volunteers to change into his assistant once more now that Brad is in jail.
Poppy and Ian, in the meantime, have a good time their newfound joblessness at a bar and talk about their future, planning a model new recreation stemming from Poppy’s Hera thought – ranging from scratch. With “Mythic Quest” having grown up and left the nest, Ian and Poppy are making a brand new child – however, they agree, they’re most actually not giving in to any sexual rigidity which will or will not be between the 2 of them (we’ll see how lengthy that lasts…). As Poppy attracts her first design for the brand new recreation on a bar serviette, the trail of the MQ crew is left blissfully uncharted.
Earlier than I even get to any of the episode’s numerous plot twists, this episode was simply the funniest of the season. Charlotte Nicdao and Rob McIlhenny have immaculate chemistry, and Poppy and Ian working collectively is a deal with. All the opposite characters have been nice (one more shoutout to the sweet-as-sugar dynamic between Ashly Burch’s Rachel and Imani Hakim’s Dana), nevertheless it’s Poppy and Ian who’re the spine of what makes this present value watching.
Coming off of this finale, I’m actually eager for the present’s future (as long as it will get one, *cough cough* Apple! *cough cough*). Earlier within the season, I requested for boldness, and within the backend of the season, “Mythic Quest” delivered. The character divisions and arcs being arrange for subsequent season are intriguing, and the thought of Poppy and Ian engaged on their very own is a gigantic artistic leap that, as long as it’s executed with care, might convey the present into the artistic renaissance that it has teetered on the cusp of for thus lengthy.
What did you consider “TBD,” and of this season of Mythic Quest as a complete? What would you alter? And the place do you assume the characters can be if/after we choose up with them subsequent? Let me know within the feedback!