Review: Futurama “Planet Espresso”

Overview

Hermes inherits a Jamaican coffee farm that holds the ruins of an ancient spaceship. 

Our Take

“Planet Espresso” is the new name of the business Farnsworth comes up with after Hermes gets his potentially profitable inheritance of running a coffee empire. Come to find out, coffee is a millions-year-old recipe brought to us by aliens and then cultivated in countries all over the world only for corporations to make deals with impoverished governments and eventually ascertain all of the coffee real estate that one could muster.

The Bill Odenkirk-written episode is pretty much a Prometheus parody only there isn’t any signs of alien life trying to kill us, just instead make a handsome profit. There are a good amount of laughs to be had like when Zoidberg is going nuts in the coffee plantation and the managers of the first Planet Espresso opt to go on strike and force Fry, the lone-employer, to take lower pay and more hours.

The twelfth season of Futurama has been very mid so far. The first six episodes were got, just not great, but I’m hoping the series will kick things up a notch in these last few episodes of the season.