The final season of Disenchantment is hitting your screens this September
The streaming giant on Tuesday announced that the animated comedy from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening has been renewed for its fifth — and final — season, which will debut Sept. 1.
The series initially landed on Netflix with a 20-episode order before being renewed in 2018 for a second batch of 20 installments. Rather than calling each run of 10 episodes a season, Netflix has split the orders and billed each batch as a “part,” a tactic many networks and streamers employ to avoid standard pay raises for creatives and stars. The fifth “part” will conclude with another 10 episodes.
The Matt Groening-created series debuted in 2018 with a twenty-episode first season that was divided into two ten-episode sections. The second season was also in two parts, meaning that the upcoming episodes are both season three and part five, depending on how you want to slice it.
The teaser for the season, above, gives a little summary of the hijinks so far, and just a taste of what’s to come. Here’s the synopsis:
It all endeth here. The misadventures of hard-hitting, hard-drinking Queen Bean (Jacobson), her feisty elf companion Elfo (Faxon) and her personal demon Luci (Andre) culminate in an epic battle for Dreamland in the fifth and final installment of Matt Groening’s comedy fantasy series Disenchantment. To save Dreamland from Queen Dagmar’s (Horgan) wicked rule, Bean must vanquish her mother and outrun a prophecy that foretells she will kill someone she loves.
The stakes are as high as ever as our heroes face Satan, a headless corpse, an evil stientist and most terrifying of all- their true destiny.
Those parenthetical last names refer to Abbi Jacobson, Nat Faxon, Eric Andre, and Sharon Horgan; the cast also includes John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille, Richard Ayoade, Matt Berry, Noel Fielding, Meredith Hagner, David Herman, Maurice LaMarche, Lucy Montgomery, and Billy West.
When the series was first announced, in 2017, Groening said, “Disenchantment will be about life and death, love and sex, and how to keep laughing in a world full of suffering and idiots, despite what the elders and wizards and other jerks tell you.”
The laughter is coming to an end, at least for now; the world full of suffering and idiot, alas, remains.
Disenchantment returns for its final ten episodes on September 1st.
