Futurama season 13 has been available for binging on Hulu for a full week now. While the episodes are overall very strong , the season finale, “The White Hole,” skyrockets into all-time classic territory, perfectly encapsulating the show’s ongoing fascination with brutal failure and ridiculous chaos—plus plenty of sci-fi shenanigans, of course.

“The White Hole” begins as an anomaly appears in the sky over New New York. It’s so bright it disrupts Bender’s attempt at burglarizing the courthouse for reasons we never learn (does Bender ever need a reason?), and it is promptly dubbed the “Brightmare” by Futurama ’s reliably hysterical newscasters.

Professor Farnsworth, of course, knows what the mysterious light is: the white hole promised by the episode title. It’s the opposite of a b

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