Streaming services, cable TV and Primetime television are fighting for your viewership now more than ever. UNBINGED is here to help you weed through it all, with reviews of the latest shows that highlight what we love, what we hate and what we love to hate-watch, too. As a new year of entertainment gets underway, TV is once again looking back. Revamps, rehashes, and remakes are nothing new, of course. When done right, they’re an easy win for networks, streaming services and the audience. But if done wrong, they become the ire of fans who feel like their memories have been toyed with, and they have no qualms sharing these feelings on social media. This month, we review That 90’s Show, Velma and Willow, a trio of shows that have had their moments as a trending topics for bringing back classic characters with very mixed results.
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That ’90s Show (Netflix)
Back for more 420 humor, bedroom rock posters of yore and 30-year-old pop culture references, That (change decade here) Show returns to the fictional suburb of Point Place, Wisconsin where the Foreman family’s basement is once again crawling with stoned teens looking for something to do, now some 20 after their parents did it.
The follow-up series to That 70’s Show follows the exploits of Leia Foreman (Callie Haverda), daughter of Eric and Donna, as she spends the summer with her grandparents Kitty (Debra Jo Rupp) and Red (Kurtwood Smith). She quickly gathers a group of confidants that include Gwen (Ashley Aufderheide), Ozzie (Reyn Doi), couple Nikki (Sam Morelos) and Nate (Maxwell Acee Donovan), and even a Kelso of her very own (Mace Coronel). Soon enough, they are going to raves, wearing flannels, and doing all the things writers born in 1989 think 90’s kids did.
Most of the gags come from fatigued retro references– one after another after another. Yeah, the original show followed much of the same format, but there was a hilarity in the…
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