Genre: Comedy
Created by Charlie Day, Megan Ganz, Rob McElhenney
Starring: Rob McElhenney, Charlotte Nicdao, Danny Pudi, Ashly Burch & Naomi Ekperigin.
Composer: Takeshi Furukawa
Executive Producers: Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Megan Ganz, David Hornsby, David Gordon Green, Nick Frenkel, Jason Altman, Danielle Kreinik, Gerard Guillemot, Michael Rotenberg
Producers: Chris Smirnoff, Jeff Luini
Cinematography: Mike Berlucchi
Editors: Trevor Penna, Josh Drisko, Steve Welch
Production Company: RCG Productions, 3 Arts Entertainment, Ubisoft Film & Television, Lionsgate Television
Distributor: Apple Inc.
Plot: The team behind the biggest multiplayer video game of all time is tasked with building worlds, molding heroes, and creating legends, but the most hard-fought battles don’t occur in the game — they happen in the office.
Season 3 of Mythic Quest was alright.
Pros: I do like how they continue the friendship/partnership with Ian and Rachel over getting their long-developed video game off the ground. The humor comes from inside the workplace. We see so much more in-game footage this time around and the ending did make me feel hopeful for season 4.
Cons: A lot of the other storylines going on didn’t grab my attention. I wish this show was the game they are developing, and I find this season getting weaker.
Casts & characters:
- Rob McElhenney as Ian Grimm, the creative director of Mythic Quest and later GrimPop. “Ian” is pronounced, “Eye-Anne”.
- Judah Prehn portrays a young Ian Grimm (“Sarian”)
- Ashly Burch as Rachel, a game tester and later head of monetization for Mythic Quest.
- Jessie Ennis as Jo, David’s assistant and Brad’s former assistant.
- Imani Hakim as Dana Bryant, a game tester for Mythic Quest and later GrimPop.
- David Hornsby as David Brittlesbee, the executive producer of Mythic Quest.
- Charlotte Nicdao as Poppy Liwanag / Poppy Li, the lead engineer and later co-creative director of Mythic Quest and later GrimPop.
- Isla Rose Hall portrays a young Poppy Liwanag (“Sarian”)
- Danny Pudi as Brad Bakshi, the head of the monetization and later a janitor for Mythic Quest.
- Naomi Ekperigin as Carol, the head of human resources and later the head of diversity and inclusion for Mythic Quest.
Recurring:
- Caitlin McGee as Sue Gorgon
- Mort Burke as Anthony
- Ben Stillwell as Kai
- Austin Zajur as Travor
Guest:
- Jake Johnson as Michael / Doc (“A Dark Quiet Death”), a video game developer and Beans’ partner in the Dark Quiet Death video game.
- Cristin Milioti as Beans (“A Dark Quiet Death”), a video game developer and Doc’s partner in the Dark Quiet Death video game.
- Geoffrey Owens as Tom (“A Dark Quiet Death”)
- Alanna Ubach as Shannon (“Brendan” & “Playpen”)
- Anthony Hopkins as The Narrator (“Everlight”)
- Jason Fuchs as Strauss (“#YumYum”)
- Parvesh Cheena as Zack Bakshi (“Breaking Brad” & “TBD”)
- Snoop Dogg as himself (“Breaking Brad”)
- William Hurt as Peter Cromwell (“Peter”)
- Michael Cassidy portrays a young Peter Cromwell (“Backstory!”)
- Shelley Hennig as A. E. Goldsmith (“Backstory!”)
- Hennig also portrays Ginny Cromwell (“Peter”)
- Joe Manganiello as himself (“The Two Joes” & “The Year of Phil”)
- Lindsey Kraft as Sarah Grimm (“Sarian”)
- Haley Magnus as Olivia Liwanag (“Sarian”)
- Casey Sander as Grandpop Joe (“Sarian”)
- Dionysio Basco as Benito Liwanag (“Sarian”)
- Sam Witwer as Ian Grimm Sr. (“Sarian”)
- Robert Picardo as Principal Taggart (“Sarian”)
- Andrew Friedman as Andy (“The Year of Phil” & “Buffalo Chicken Pizza”)
- Michael Naughton as Mikey (“The Year of Phil” & “Buffalo Chicken Pizza”)
I can still recommend watching this season on Apple TV+ along with the first two seasons of this show.
Rating: 6 out of 10 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident TV reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe.