The season received negative reviews from critics, who cited a lack of original writing. The season's showrunners were Hentemann and Callaghan, both of whom replaced previous showrunners Goodman and Sheridan.
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Production season seven was executive produced by Chris Sheridan, David Goodman, Danny Smith, Mark Hentemann, Steve Callaghan and series creator Seth MacFarlane. Starting with this season, the show is animated using Toon Boom Harmony.Īs of season eight, the series entered its seventh production season. The animated television series Family Guy follows the dysfunctional Griffin family-father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and dog Brian, all of whom reside in their hometown of Quahog. It ran on Sunday nights between May and July 2010 on BBC Three in the UK. While there are some good episodes of Family Guy in this season, especially 'Back to the Pilot', 'Amish Guy', 'The Blind Side' and 'Killer Queen', season 10 was mostly miss, with the third episode - an episode focusing on Quagmire's sister trying to break up with her abusive boyfriend being almost bereft of any sort of laughter - cementing the mentioned claim.Family Guy 's eighth season first aired on the Fox network in twenty-one episodes from September 27, 2009, to May 23, 2010, before being released as two DVD box sets and in syndication. The next two episodes certainly don't help, with Brenda (who was thought to be a one-time character with Quagmire's failed joke) getting a main episode where Quagmire tries to choke himself while watching porn, and the fourth honestly missing the mark despite a few good jokes (again, respectively).
I think it's clear that by the tenth season, Family Guy has turned into a more terrible version of the post-golden era Simpsons, because the first two episodes involve Peter being a jerk to his friends after winning the lottery (twice), and the family end up falling apart after Meg's unnecessary outburst while Brian ends up going on drugs which involve his ear cut off (respectively). I can't say this is the worst season of Family Guy but yeah, it's not good.
Other bad episodes are just flat out forgettable. Hypocrisy with regards to domestic violence (it doesn't help that this is the last we see of Brenda and that the domestic violence is still depicted in a humorous light in later episodes), an appalling "Brian & Stewie" subplot in which you are allowed to cringe at the line "there's a special place in hell for people like you" when you understand the context, a terrible autism joke that only crosses the line once with a plot that will offend anyone who's studied politics (*ahem* not me) and, worst of all, a played painfully straight example of Status Quo is God for a crossover event that wasn't really except at the end of the American Dad episode that involves the same hurricane. The tenth season of Family Guy has a few good episodes (mostly limited to the ones where Brian and Stewie are the main focus), the animation is much better (Back to the Pilot uses ye olde and modern animation styles quite impressively), the voice acting can be quite well-done when it wants to be and there are a couple of thrilling action sequences but that doesn't excuse this season for the individual sins most of the episodes have.
NOTE: I do not feel the need to watch the seasons 7-9 for the sake of reviewing them since, as a comedy show with negative continuity, I have nothing to lose from skipping a few seasons except a few references to past controversies and the Griffin family's misadventures.
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