Mythic Quest season 4 finally has a release date. Apple TV’s workplace comedy starring Rob McElhenney and Charlotte Nicdao about a video game studio and its lovable but emotionally stunted staff returns for another raft of episodes in January. This time around, however, the show is also getting a micro-spin-off series to expand its story.
Apple announced season 4 of Mythic Quest will debut on January 29 with two new episodes. Subsequent ones will drop every Wednesday after that until March 26. At that point, four anthology episodes called Side Quest will also debut to further explore the lives of employees, players and fans impacted by the titular game and the fictional studio that makes it.
It sounds like each of these episodes will be standalone, and given Mythic Quest has some of the best “bottle” episodes around, I’m curious to see what creators McElhenney, Charlie Day and Megan Ganz have planned. Otherwise, we still don’t have a trailer or even a real synopsis of what season 4 proper will entail. I assume it will be the usual mix of dueling egos and knowing video game dunks, but hopefully there’s some more trenchant, contemporary criticism mixed in. Mythic Quest still has one of the best jokes about gaming ever made.
For those who haven’t yet taken the plunge on Apple’s video game flavored riff on shows like Community, it’s about a charming but dysfunctional studio behind a hit MMORPG in the mold of World of Warcraft and the ways they self-sabotage one another while working through their personal foibles and attempting to grow past their character flaws. It’s a perfect example of Apple TV’s narrow, lowkey success with original programming that is very good and almost nobody is watching. People can start remedying that in the meantime by catching up on seasons 1-3.