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- 2021
- TV-PG
- ABC
- 2021
- TV-PG
- ABC
Summary An adult Dean Williams (Don Cheadle) narrates the story of his coming-of-age in 1960s Alabama as a 12-year-old (Elisha "EJ" Williams) with his black middle-class family in this reboot of the 1980s family comedy of the same name.
Created By: Saladin K. Patterson
- 2021
- TV-PG
- ABC
- 2021
- TV-PG
- ABC
The Wonder Years (2021)
Season 1 Premiere: Sep 22, 2021
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Summary An adult Dean Williams (Don Cheadle) narrates the story of his coming-of-age in 1960s Alabama as a 12-year-old (Elisha "EJ" Williams) with his black middle-class family in this reboot of the 1980s family comedy of the same name.
Created By: Saladin K. Patterson
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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86% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
75
86% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
14% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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The show skillfully moves from coming-of-age comedy to drama. This “Wonder Years” also does a fine job of telling the story from the point of view of a Black family, and honors their experiences.
Tackling thorny racial issues with nostalgic grace and humor is this Wonder Years' specialty. It needs a bigger spotlight. [3 - 23 Jul 2023, p.6]
There’s a lot of promise here; the child actors are great finds, and the adult cast — featuring Saycon Sengbloh as Dean’s mother and Allen Maldonado as his baseball coach — evince a roundedness that you hope will mean story lines dedicated to their characters, too. ... One thing’s for sure: You’ll want to return to this world.
Patterson and Savage navigate the tricky material with finesse and not too much sentimentality, and they mostly pull off an ambitious, dangerously heavy ending.
“The Wonder Years” is a delightful series that should appeal to both fans of the original series as well as a new generation who have never watched the show. Williams, Hill, Sengbloh, and Kariuki have a wonderful chemistry, and they could very well be on their way to becoming the next great American television family.
[The original] was more sweet than outright hilarious, one of the few things the two shows have in common. The old show was escapist, sure, the new one is not, but the inevitable question is why a network remakes a show in a way that largely ignores the charms of the original. ... Whether the new “Wonder Years” is a show for our times—or any—will have everything to do with whether it continues to be so utterly predictable.
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Based on 22 User Ratings
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Based on 22 User Ratings
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45% Positive
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Production Company:
- Lee Daniels Entertainment
- Matthew 6:33 films
- The Crest Lamp Company
- 20th Television
Initial Release Date: Sep 22, 2021
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-PG
Awards
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 7 Nominations
Black Reel Awards for Television
• 3 Nominations
Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA)
• 2 Nominations
