Though the pair are more agreeable than in Season 1, as David teases, they tiptoe on the brink of a creator’s divorce. Poppy (Charlotte Nicdao) and Ian (McElhenney) face a task even greater than the Raven’s Banquet expansion: a second expansion. Somehow, perhaps thanks to the genius of creators McElhenney, Megan Ganz, and Charlie Day, Season 2 of Mythic Quest strikes a brilliant, lighthearted balance of pandemic living with humor.Īfter two epic pandemic episodes bridging the gap between Seasons 1 and 2, this new season plops the MQ workers back into the office, finally-a feat most of us will face in the months to come.
Mythic Quest has done none of those things. It could have ramped up on pandemic imagery, like Superstore or This Is Us. It could have held out for the pandemic to be over, like other workplace hits Succession or Apple’s own Ted Lasso. And Mythic Quest could have faded away after that, as a show that only stood out because of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Rob McElhenney. The video game workplace comedy (which has a niche audience, to say the least) landed on Apple TV+ about a month before the world shut down, a faint artifact of the forgettable February 2020.
In the somewhat-Purgatorial, somewhat-Hellish realm that is pandemic television, Mythic Quest somehow thrives.
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