Conner’s Critiques – Disenchantment Part 4

Disenchantment, the newest series by Matt Groening on Netflix, just released its 4th “part.” We’ve actually reviewed Disenchantment quite a bit for our site, check out our prior articles Here and Here.

Netflix has asked us to keep quite a bit secret from the new season, as to not ruin your experience with the new “Part,” wo we’ll do our best to keep the review spoilers free. As always though, our reviews are focused on story, acting, and finally an overall take.

Story 8/10

This season covers a lot of ground, with visits to so many different places all over the fictional world within Disenchantment.

Additionally, a lot of the back stories, that were cut from us during the show, are finally revealed, history about the castle, more information about other characters, and even some things that were taking place in the background of other “parts.” All of this is laid bare before the viewer.

It’s also nice to see the relationship between Tiabeanie “Bean” and her father has been repaired as they struggle to find happiness for themselves, each other, and also their own nation.

As far as seasons go, this is part has been the most straight forward and linear of all others for Disenchantment. Prior “parts” have been all over the place and some people have felt lost while watching them. While some sections upon first viewing might seem a bit off course, it’s all for the purpose of telling the story forward. Lastly, while the season does leave us on a cliffhanger, it’s still a pretty satisfying journey to this point.

Acting 6/10

I love and appreciate voice acting, and believe it’s just as skilled in ability as traditional acting. Also as a result of the difficulties of not being able to see the story as you’re trying to act within it. The times of COVID has also made it more difficult because voice actors don’t get to work with other voice actors, even if they normally would, due social distancing.

That being said, nothing in this season really stands out from the other prior “Parts.” Everyone does a pretty good job with their representation of their characters. No one unfortunately stands out as someone to really give a lot of credit.

Eric Andre’s performance as Luci this season, however, did feel a little bit disconnected in parts. In the higher emotional sections, it appears as if he was just reading from a script. His character had a lot of emotional growth written for him with ups and downs, but I feel like it was somewhat lost in the performance.

Overall 7/10

Having considered that, to get to this point you had to watch three other “parts,” then clearly you are going to watch part four. You’ve likely become invested and in the journeys of the characters. I’m not saying that the season isn’t great, that’s it’s not even good, or that it’s specifically bad. It’s definitely an enjoyable show to watch. It’s pretty funny, but I will specifically say that it’s not reinventing the wheel.

All that aside, this is one of the better “Parts” to watch of the series. It feels a little bit like the dessert to all the work that we’ve gone through to get to this point.

Conner’s Final thoughts

I had the people in the graphic department specifically make the title image for this review be the one of Bean falling, because she falls a lot this season. It’s interesting because I went back and saw that she falls a lot in the show. People are falling constantly. It’s a interesting thing to note because the sense of falling is regularly used in concert with dreaming, and waking from a dream. The town is also called Dreamland.

There are so many ways dreams play a role in this season, so I thought that was all interesting… nothing to see here.

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