This post was written by guest contributor Michael Kaufman.

One of the new series now available for streaming on Apple TV+ is Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, a comedic look behind the scenes of a fictional massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).

Created by Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, and Megan Ganz (the minds that brought us It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and collaborating with Ubisoft, the story showcases the madness, relationships, joy, and frustration during development – scenes that will be familiar to anyone who has ever worked with creatives in a production environment. All nine half-hour episodes of Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet are now available to stream on Apple TV+ here.

The story follows a team of video game developers and their relationships as they run, and continue to expand, their incredibly popular video game. The entire cast bounces off one another, reflecting the real-world office environment that many viewers will recognize.

Ian Grimm, played by McElhenney, is the company’s creative director who plays against David Brittlesbee (David Hornsby), Mythic Quest’s executive producer, and lead engineer Poppy Li (Charlotte Nicdao). Elevating the story is Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham, starring as C.W. Longbottom, the game’s head writer. The office staff is completed with Brad (Danny Pudi), the head of monetization, and Jo (Jessie Ennis), David’s assistant. A parallel (and sometimes intertwined) storyline features a pair of game testers, Dana and Rachel, played by Imani Hakim and Ashly Burch, respectively.

During a media event for the series, the cast showed how much the comedy of Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet mirrors real-life relationships with creatives, especially when they work together. We asked the cast who among them they believed was most like the character they portray, and the answer was hysterically uniform: everyone immediately declared that David Hornsby was nearly indistinguishable from his character. They share a name, a business title, and more than a little professional approach (definitely “supporting the creatives”).

Ashly Burch (Rachel) was wonderfully insightful about the connection the audience might feel with the characters, even if they know nothing about the gaming industry. She said, “It’s been seen as sort of niche for some time, but whenever you’re making something artistic, you get similar archetypes of people… and similar problems.”

Co-creator and executive producer Megan Ganz expanded that idea, saying that “anytime people engage in something creative, or just something they’re really passionate about, it is hard to separate your personal feelings from what it is that you’re making. And that’s going to lead to a lot of ego. That’s going to lead to a lot of clashes… and all those things are really great for comedy.”

We also asked some of the cast for someone else they could see playing their character, and there were some wonderful responses but none better than Jessie Ennis’s declaration that she would not, under any circumstances, share Jo with anyone without a fight.

The series has already been renewed for a second season on Apple TV+, yet there’s still little information to be found on the next installment. McElhenney did reveal that the upcoming season will focus on a new expansion to the Mythic Quest game, which means a different (and as yet undecided) subtitle.

Alas, I guess we’ll just have to be patient and see what develops…

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