Disenchantment

Of the series that benefit from Groening’s influence, Disenchantment is the most serialized; it’s also the series that comes closest to having an actual overarching plot, one that is leaned into in some surprising and not so surprising ways over the course of the series’ first 10 episodes. As a result, the story about a spoiled, booze-loving princess who goes by Bean (Abbi Jacobsen) and her two companions, an elf who is imaginatively named Elfo (Nat Faxon), and her literal personal de

mon, Luci (Eric André), expresses an interest in subverting various fairytale conventions. Early on, the series approaches this through Bean’s propensity for making jokes about her hard-drinking ways, or overtly stating a desire to be in charge of her own destiny. That means no arranged marriages for the sake of a royal alliance between two kingdoms. Instead, Bean says, Or because I was wasted.”