A pizza delivery boy awakens a millennium later, navigating a whimsical yet melancholic future with absurdist wit.
Satirical and melancholy, with dry wit. A comfort watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Hulu.
Heads up on moderate sex and nudity. That is past what the TV-14 on the box suggests. Beyond that, some strong language and some violence.
Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the TV-14 suggests, because of the sex and nudity.
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The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
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