SummarySet in 1995, Red (Kurtwood Smith) and Kitty Forman (Debra Jo Rupp) invite their granddaughter Leia (Callie Haverda) to stay for the summer in this sequel to That '70s Show.
SummarySet in 1995, Red (Kurtwood Smith) and Kitty Forman (Debra Jo Rupp) invite their granddaughter Leia (Callie Haverda) to stay for the summer in this sequel to That '70s Show.
“That ‘90s Show” is the equivalent of a great throwback burger joint with a short menu. The food might have a familiar taste, but it finds an efficient way to overdeliver on the basic expectations.
Offering precisely what its title promises and building on the legacy of a Y2K era sitcom that looked back in order to appear fresh and cool, That ’90s Show is nothing new. That’s not so much a knock against it as an accurate assessment of its reason for being.
The show was great!, I think people are trying to compare this to quickly to peak "that 70s show". The jokes are the same, the writers are the same, and the cast takes a while to adjust.
That ‘90s Show did just enough to let us drop back into this world for a summer of fun, and here’s hoping there’s another summer or two to come down the line.
That ’90s Show is milder than a Milwaukee cheddar, built to be watched while scrolling on your phone, but from the moment Leia takes her father’s place, yelling out “Hello Wisconsin!” in the opening titles, the lure of generations past might just drag you in.
As an outgrowth of this fad [revivals], the series falls somewhere in the middle of the pack. While there’s a chance we’ll want to hang out in the basement with this gang in the future, we’d rather hang out with Red and Kitty upstairs for now.
There will certainly be giggles. But there’s no longer any wink necessary between the show and its audience. There are also considerably coarser references to sex and basic biology now, which seem to arrive at moments when a writer has run out of wit. ... Unfortunately, “That ’90s Show” much of the time suffers from a sensibility that suggests Disney Channel tween comedies of the early 2000s, programs that never made much of an effort, perhaps because they had a captive audience.
The idea of the new series is essentially to recreate every single dynamic of the original, just with new young actors playing new teen characters. It doesn’t work. .... The whole thing reeks of a crass ploy by Netflix to capitalize on nostalgia, while missing entirely what it was about That ’70s Show that made it good or worth revisiting in the first place.
Jesus christ. I don’t even know where to start. Probably with the Barney level acting from all the 13 year olds. It was more than difficult to sit through let alone try to enjoy. This is a stain on the name **** show.
Absolutely atrocious acting and no real storyline. A poor attempt to reboot a good series with terrible writing. I couldn't watch an entire episode - even though I tried.