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Disenchantment Part 3 — An Irreverent Blur
This review contains spoilers from Disenchantment Part 3, episode 1
Disenchantment is Netflix’s latest original cartoon to beat the two season curse. The series, from Simpsons creator Matt Groening, is a long running narrative, like an irreverent She-Ra, rather than episodic, and has potentially the best soundtrack of any cartoon on the air today. Seriously, you’d be mad to skip the intro.
If you haven’t seen seasons 1 or 2, you wouldn’t have too much of an advantage on me for watching the new release. Seriously, as enjoyable as it is, the plot twists and turns so much that subsequent viewings of earlier seasons often feel like watching them for the first time. Episodes are highly binge-able, but you will miss things in the blur. I rewatched seasons 1 and 2 before diving into season 3 and was flabbergasted that it was content I’d seen before.
Anyway —
Part 3 sees Bean reunited (again) with her mother in a massive, underground cavern of depraved anti-elves known as “trøgs”. Queen Dagmar’s relationship with these creature is … questionable at best. Bean cannot return to the surface under pain of death — whether the threat is higher from the authorities in Dreamland or from her own mother is left to be determined.
King Zøg is recovering from his gunshot wound, but pretending to be dying after hearing his advisors discussing treachery against him. Prince Derek is thrust to the throne as a figurehead, doing the bidding of Odval to rid Dreamland of debauchery, but he isn’t entirely on board with everything he’s being instructed to do. Zøg plots his escape with a loyal guard.
What degeneration will our characters see in season 3? Only time will tell.
