One of the best comedy series of recent years is Apple TV’s Mythic Quest, which ran on the streamer for four seasons, and was sadly cancelled in 2025. Created by It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia‘s Charlie Day, Megan Ganz, and Rob Mac, Mythic Quest is a hilarious and outrageously funny workplace sitcom with a delightfully bizarre sense of humor, and some of the most inventive sitcom episodes ever.
What Is Apple TV’s ‘Mythic Quest’ About?
Mythic Quest follows the creative team behind an extremely popular multiplayer roleplaying video game called Mythic Quest. This game takes a lot of people to keep it running, including the executive producer, David Brittlesbee (David Hornsby), the head of monetization, Brad Bakshi (Danny Pudi), and the testers, Dana Bryant (Imani Hakim) and Rachel Meyee (Ashly Burch). At the helm of it all are MQ’s creator and creative director, Ian Grimm (Rob Mac), and the game’s lead engineer, Poppy Li (Charlotte Nicdao). No matter how successful a video game is, if they aren’t constantly switching things up and introducing new expansion packs, they are at risk of losing their players’ attention. At the start of the series, Mythic Quest is about to launch a new expansion pack called Raven’s Banquet that they’ve been working on for two years, but Ian still has little tweaks that he wants to make.
As a workplace comedy, Mythic Quest shows the MQ team clashing with each other and dealing with very specific work problems each episode, whether they’re disagreeing about a major decision for the game, trying to win over gaming streamers, or dealing with a hacker. The core conflict of the series is that of Ian and Poppy, who represent the creative and practical aspects of the game. Ian always has his head in the clouds and doesn’t think about the logistics of his big visions, while Poppy always has to think about how to make his visions happen — instead of getting to have big ideas of her own. Throughout the first season of Mythic Quest, the MQ team tries to make sure the Raven’s Banquet launch goes smoothly. Meanwhile, Ian and Poppy try to make their partnership work for both of them, while Poppy starts to consider what she wants her future at MQ to look like.
‘Mythic Quest’ Perfectly Balances Humor and Heart
Mythic Quest is an excellent workplace comedy, but it is also very inventive and bold in both its humor and its emotional core. Mythic Quest has some absolutely hilarious and strange storylines, with episodes that see the MQ team holding a committee to figure out what qualifies as hate speech within the game, and Ian challenging a hacker to a duel in front of the whole world. In Season 2, Mythic Quest has a bottle episode with the premise that every MQ employee has taken a personality quiz, and they refuse to accept their results, or even to leave the office for the night. Mythic Quest always pushes the envelope with its humor, both embracing its characters’ unique quirks and personality traits, while also giving thoughtful and satirical commentary on the video game industry.
Mythic Quest also has a tradition of a departure episode each season that leaves the main characters to follow someone else who has a connection to the game in a way that also touches on the core theme of that season. The Season 1 installment follows two characters who never otherwise appear in the series, but who used the MQ office a long time ago. Season 2 and 3 have backstory episodes for main characters, and Season 4’s centers on Charlie Day’s recurring side character.
Mythic Quest as a series does not shy away from change, and each season shows the characters making major shake-ups to both their personal and professional lives. As such, MQ is always adjusting to new power dynamics in the office, as well as to changes in the gaming industry. Alongside the silliness, Mythic Quest gives all of the characters intentional and thoughtful character development, in ways that both show them growing and regressing. The show regularly touches on its core theme of what it means to monetize one’s art, and it does so in both tragic and outrageously funny ways.