Mythic Quest 3 Review: VR Headset From Meta Has Mixed Reactions

November 09, 2022 By Monica Green

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Video game adaptations for film and television have never been easy to get off, but stories about the developers have generally been met with far more enthusiasm. Mythic Quest's most recent season for Apple TV+ serves as a potent reminder that it continues to rank among the finest of the bunch.

The game-based television series Mythic Quest, which is now in its third season, builds on the momentum from a second season that, in terms of plot, could have easily been its final one. The original, core cast of characters was essentially split up in the previous season and distributed across new jobs, interests outside the gaming industry, and even new businesses.

Former Mythic Quest creative directors Ian and Poppy, played by series co-creator Rob McElhenney and Charlotte Nicdao, respectively, are trying to launch their new studio despite interpersonal conflicts and creative issues in season 3 of Mythic Quest. Following Ian and Poppy's departure, remaining studio boss David (David Hornsby) fights to keep Mythic Quest's momentum going while the possibility of a Mythic Quest movie hangs over his work.

Outside of the studio, former game testers Dana (Imani Hakim) and Rachel (Ashly Burch) must negotiate life as a felon while Brad (Danny Pudi), the studio's now-imprisoned former head of monetization, has an unclear future after Mythic Quest.

The third season of the program dramatically mixes things up by introducing fresh character iterations that highlight their advantages, disadvantages, and surprising ways they interact with one another while sharing a narrative arc. This not only creates a ton of new comic chances and some entertaining narrative twists and turns, but it also strengthens some of the show's underutilized characters, especially Dana and David's assistant, Jo (Jessie Ennis). That pair shines in the enlarged spotlight season 3 offers them, along with a few other characters who had supporting roles in previous seasons, and it only increases the show's attractiveness. The third season of Mythic Quest, however, continues to feel incredibly familiar in ways that are both welcome and occasionally, a little too familiar. This is despite all of the significant changes that this season of the show brings.

Although the scattering of characters at the start of the season could make it a little sluggish, the show quickly brings the main cast together in some way.

Mythic Quest's third season does a fantastic job of tying together the many situations the characters are in, and each subsequent season of the series has become a little better at it. Whereas the first season of the show frequently divided up particular characters—the testers, the management team, Ian and Poppy—each succeeding season has merged the various groups in some surprising but desirable ways.

While the show's central premise that no game studio (or company, for that matter) could function at a high level with such fluid staffing and roles is occasionally stressed by the inventive ways the story brings them together in season 3, all of the mixing and matching allows the show to delve a little deeper into each character. And Mythic Quest is just as gratifying and enjoyable as ever in its third season once you let go of attaching the show to any basis in reality and accept the strange turmoil of this office farce.

However, all of that cast rotation does have its drawbacks, and as a result, the season occasionally comes off as feeling a little too formulaic. Even after a significant character leaves the program in season 3, the show doesn't introduce any new lead characters, and at times the season feels like a game of three-card monte, with characters being switched around quickly to divert attention from the overall story's stagnation. By the time the dust settles at the end of the season, the characters are back in their familiar surroundings, and the entire season's crazy storyline ends up feeling like fun but pointless filler.