Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a comedy series that started up in 1988 and continued running until 1999, thus resulting in a total of 10 seasons on two separate channels. However, it is not what most people would think when the concept of a comedy comes up. Instead, it is centered around protagonists who are forced to watch B movies, with the result that they have to maintain their fraying sanity by making fun of those movies. Suffice to say that the makers of the B movies shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000 have had a rather wide range of reactions to their treatment, with examples ranging from being flattered to pure outrage at being mocked in so merciless a manner. Something that for a lot of people, making the whole thing that much funnier.
What Is Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return?
With that said, Mystery Science Theater 3000 failed to secure a significant number of viewers on its initial run. However, it started becoming more and more popular on the Internet as its fans started spreading word of its existence to a bigger as well as a much more receptive audience than ever before. As a result, there was a fair amount of support for the creator Joel Hodgeson when he started making the effort to revive the series in 2010.
Unfortunately, Hodgeson had to overcome a number of obstacles in his path. For example, the rights for Mystery Science Theater 3000 were held by Jim Mallon and Best Brains, meaning that there was a long series of negotiations before he could get started on reviving the series. By November of 2015, Hodgeson was able to start up a Kickstarter campaign, which he considered to be important for a couple of reasons. First, a successful Kickstarter campaign would be a powerful show of the support for the series. Second, a successful Kickstarter campaign would enable the fans to determine what the result would look like as opposed to the conditions that would be imposed by the networks in exchange for their funding.
Regardless, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return was released via Netflix on April 14 of 2017. Said series had some serious changes from its predecessors, as shown by its new cast members. However, it retained the core characteristics that had made its predecessor such a hit with its fans. In fact, Hodgeson made a deliberate decision to focus on the episodes that were most popular with the fans for inspiration in making the revival, which seems to have paid off. After all, there is no news that there will be a second season of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return, which would be the twelfth season for the series as a whole.
What Can We Expect from the Second Season of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return?
So far, not much information has been released about Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return. However, it seems probable that interested individuals can expect much the same from the upcoming season as what they have seen from the revival so far. As a result, if people liked the eleventh season, it seems safe to say that they will like the twelfth season as well, meaning that they will want to continue paying attention to the news for further information.
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