New York (AP) – Hank Hill is back and he is the same old Hank Hill, but many things around him have changed.
The lovable animated hero of “King of the Hill” has returned from a 15-year break and he is not sure what Boba Tea is, how is confused with employees and confusion by all-gends bathroom. “What kind of meal is Poke?” He asks his wife Peggy.
Hank and Peggy have returned to their hometown Arlon, Texas – and our television – but a lot has happened over the years and they enter into a world that they do not always recognize.
“Hank, have things changed more than we thought?” Asks Peggy concerned in the first new episode. “Did we make a mistake that comes back?”
Hulu definitely does not hope and unites many of the same writers and voice who have transformed the propane-loving one with beer sipping hills into one of the few blue icons of the television. The first 10 episodes hit Hulu on Monday.
A new leader “King of the Hill”
Saladin K. Patterson, the executing producer and show runner of the new season 14, hopes that the original fans will return to see how Hill copies today.
“This is always the key because you want this core fan base validate what you have done because you are in a way like the gatekeeper,” he says. “Well, if you unsubscribe and say: 'Ok, you haven't screwed it in, it's still the same special show.” I think other people who may not be familiar with it, or even on the fence, “Ok, now we want to like it.”
The spectators will find out that Hank and Peggy were in Saudi Arabia all the time, where he acted as “deputy manager for Arabic propane and Arabic proposal list”. Her 21-year-old son Bobby is the cook of a restaurant “Down Home, German-Asian Fusion”. (Sample bowl: grilled mackerel with one side of the mustard pretzel.)
Hank and Peggy retired and he happily steps to his line of friends who drink beer cans in an alley. Boomhauer hug him and Dale has become even more paranoid and became “one of the constituents leaders”.
Bill let himself go, stay inside and live on Amazon deliveries. “I ended Netflix, Hank. Did you know that in the second episode, when you come at the end of Netflix, some name 'a wellness check?'”
“The authors have found the balance between the vintage 'King of the Hill”, which we love and the new – and let them coexist, “says Pamela Adlon, who pronounces Bobby.
The same gentle tone
The creators Mike Judge, the mastermind behind “Beasvis and Butt-Head”, and Greg Daniels, who creates “The Office” together with the office, helped navigate in this world, which they shielded in the first 13 seasons and broadcast from 1997 to 2009.
The tone of the show retains its gentle mockery over modern life, from hipsters to bike alleys. Hill shakes his head over modern outdoor grills with sensors and app connections: “I shouldn't call technical support to make a burger.”
Patterson says that humor is justified in real life. “I have a grill grill that is Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-capable. I have three devices to carry it out, but I call technical support because I have to get guests over and the meat has to be done,” he says. “And I think about the pandemic, my wife ended Netflix.”
While there are changes, some things are unchangeable. “Hank will still drink beer. Dale is still becoming a conspiracy theorist. Bill is still becoming a lovable sad sack,” says Patterson. “This core character -had to be the same. I had a pastor who once told me that adult people don't change. “
The audience will see in the coming consequences whether Hank – a happy propane seller and garage hobbyists – can really retire and watch, while Hank's friends control new chapters. You will also examine the relationship between an adult bobby and his parents.
“He is now in old age and it is really cool because they see the similarities and all the characteristics he took his parents, which he didn't even know when he was a boy – or didn't want to have anything to do with it – and now he uses her to keep his business up and drive himself up,” says Adlon.
A political -free zone
While the debates have led where Hank Hill is in the political spectrum, his creators argue that he is a reasonable, sensible middle. He follows the rules and does the best he can without hurt someone.
“It is not a Republican or a democratic show or an independent show. It's all,” says Adlon. “There is space in the world for everyone. It is difficult for all of us to find a safe space in a common area, and that is exactly what this show really is.”
And although the new episodes “King of the Hill” arrive during the second term of President Donald Trump, they do not expect Hank Hill policy.
“We want to tell reliable stories in which people in our characters or their family members can see themselves in our characters,” says Patterson.
“There are enough cultural things and relationship things that have changed where he can comment without wading in tariffs and immigration policy and the like.”