The tragedy of the Great Intellectual Property Plundering is that they will come for us all at some point. Everyone who has ever even briefly appeared in a Star Wars movie is now doomed to spend their days quivering nervously at home, awaiting the inevitable phone call informing them that their character has been given its own joylessly identikit Disney+ spin-off series. As the streaming era continues to rapaciously cannibalise the past for new content, no IP is safe.
As such, there is a new Beavis and Butt-Head series. Even though its creator, Mike Judge, has proved himself again and again to be astute enough to reinvent himself in brand-new forms whenever the need arises (King of the Hill, Office Space, Idiocracy, Silicon Valley), the commercial demands of the newly launched Paramount+ mean that even he has found himself going over old ground.
