Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
It's a shame that the best shows on Adult Swim also seem to be the ones with the longest breaks between seasons. It's been roughly two-and-a-half years since The Venture Bros. Season 6 wrapped, which his basically par for the course at this point. Fortunately, the series never seems to lose its momentum or energy despite those long stretches of down time. "The Venture Bros. & The Curse of the Haunted Problem" offers a zany and deceptively ambitious gateway back into this always entertaining universe.
Where Season 6 delivered a major status quo shift for the series, Season 7 picked up more or less right where things left off in March 2016. That's to be expected given that Season 6 didn't wrap up so much as it abruptly stopped when creators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer ran out of episodes. For the most part, the characters are all right where we left them, with the Venture family enjoying its new Manhattan headquarters and the supervillain community cowering in fear of the threat of Blue Morpho. But rather than dive into a plot-heavy continuation of Season 6, Publick and Hammer started slow with an amusing, horror-flavored episode that parodied bits of The Exorcist, Poltergeist, 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Godfather.
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It's a shame that the best shows on Adult Swim also seem to be the ones with the longest breaks between seasons. It's been roughly two-and-a-half years since The Venture Bros. Season 6 wrapped, which his basically par for the course at this point. Fortunately, the series never seems to lose its momentum or energy despite those long stretches of down time. "The Venture Bros. & The Curse of the Haunted Problem" offers a zany and deceptively ambitious gateway back into this always entertaining universe.
Where Season 6 delivered a major status quo shift for the series, Season 7 picked up more or less right where things left off in March 2016. That's to be expected given that Season 6 didn't wrap up so much as it abruptly stopped when creators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer ran out of episodes. For the most part, the characters are all right where we left them, with the Venture family enjoying its new Manhattan headquarters and the supervillain community cowering in fear of the threat of Blue Morpho. But rather than dive into a plot-heavy continuation of Season 6, Publick and Hammer started slow with an amusing, horror-flavored episode that parodied bits of The Exorcist, Poltergeist, 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Godfather.
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