The summer of the 2024 TV schedule is quickly heading towards the fall, when some of my favorite network TV shows will be back with new episodes of full seasons following the end of last year’s WGA writers strike and SAG-AFTRA actors strike. Despite spending a lot of my TV time watching medical and crime procedurals, one series that I’m highly anticipating in just over two months is also one that isn’t usually my kind at all: The Legend of Vox Machina , produced for Amazon Prime Video subscribers . And dang it, after a new clip was released, I’m more excited than ever for the upcoming third season of the animated fantasy series.
First things first, though – when I say that Legend of Vox Machina “isn’t usually my kind” of show, that’s not at all an insult to the show or any of the various genres it occupies. I’ve just very rarely watched even the best animated TV shows as an adult outside of franchises that I already love, like Star Wars . Plus, the show is based on the first Dungeons & Dragons campaign of Critical Role, and everything I know about D&D is what I’ve learned from Stranger Things and anything I might have picked up by osmosis at San Diego Comic-Con in previous years.
Never played a tabletop roleplaying game in my life unless Monopoly counts. In fact, it’s pure happenstance that I even tried Vox Machina . I watched a random clip that was recommended to me on YouTube, and it happened to be at a time when I wanted a breather from all of the c.