She would be too expensive for a Netflix show at this point.
I’m about halfway through the episode, now, and I dunno about this.
Way too much kicking the fourth wall…I was hoping for something more ‘classic Full House’. I’m hoping once the fanservice of having everyone there has passed, it’ll feel more like Full House, not a sketch at a fan convention or something.
Just so we’re clear:
You are perturbed that someone doesn’t like what you like, and tells you so.
And your response to this slight is to call him a “piece of shit”, a “dickball”, and a “cunt” because he doesn’t like what you like.
In other words, you do to him exactly what earned him the piece of shit, dickball, and cunt designations from you.
Is that about right?
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With all that said, I’ve been here a little over a year (lurked a couple of years before that), and that’s the longest Drunky Smurf post I’ve ever seen, by at least a hundred words… I didn’t even know he ever posted anything other than drive-by one-liners. I must say, though, if you had asked me what topic would it take to get him to show an actual opinion about something, I wouldn’t have guessed Fuller House, if you’d given me a thousand tries.
As to the show itself, I’ll say that it benefits from binge watching, as it got, progressively, better by increments. I can’t imagine that show lasting a full season if had been broadcast weekly on network TV.
Drunky Smurf, you need to dial it way, way back for this forum. Swearing and expressing negative opinions are fine, but you going over the top here. Start a pit thread if you want to eviscerate the critic.
What was the original demographic for this show? It ran from 87’ to 95’ so I was 17 when it started and while I was aware of it I remember it as more of a show for kids or tweens and maybe even more directed at females?
Is the nostalgia for the reboot directed mainly at these now grown up females?
On a different note, does anyone know if Bob Saget has had any recent health issues? His voice sounds off, and not just because he’s probably 10 years older than last time I saw him (one of his comedy specials).
(And I’m so glad Candace Cameron Bure seems not to have gone down the same crazy hole as her brother (even though she’s also a conservative Christian)… I can see him refusing to do scenes like the ‘Stephanie’s boobs’ jokes. … Or even being in the same room as Bob Saget.)
I’m thinking he’s pissed off by the “stunted, binge-watching adults” comment about the audience, not the fact that the critic didn’t like the show. You know, the section he quoted.
The AV club critic called it “a porn parody without the porn” which I thought was pretty funny.
Pfft, if they can get Bob Saget they can get the Olsen twins!
Haven’t gotten around to watching it yet but I’m quite disappointed that they’re not in it. Anyway, I feel kinda obligated to watch at least a bit for nostalgia’s sake.
Yeah, it bugs me, too. And I even read FullHouseReviewed, a website by a guy who absolutely hated the original show, and has given enough info that he’ll probably hate this version, too.
But it’s funny seeing him freak out so much about such an innocuous show. And, occasionally, he does make some good points when he’s not in full rant mode.
IIRC, their fashion company ended up being worth some ungodly amount of money. So they presumably dont need the money.
Didnt they have a younger sister in xmen?Maybe she could play the role
She (Elizabeth) was the one under discussion, not Mary Kate and Ashley. (She’s actually in Marvel’s movies - the Captain America and Avengers series, specifically - not in Fox’s X-Men.)
I don’t think she looks that much like the twins, personally…from the right angle, deliberately playing it up, she could pass as a third triplet, but usually the family resemblance is pretty vague. I doubt she’s interested in taking on her sisters’ castoffs, anyway, though. (I think Netflix could afford her if they really wanted her - I doubt she demands more than Kevin Spacy - but I think the only chance of Michelle ever appearing onscreen is one of the twins pulling the trigger and saying ‘yes, I’ll do it’.)
Yeah, I get that. But Drunky Smurf, in his response, is doing that exact same thing - insulting the audience (Hank Stuever) rather than the content.
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I watched the first few episodes. Bob Saget looked like he REALLY didn’t want to be there. Like he’d recently been forcefully castrated.
Jodie Sweetin seemed a little rusty at the whole acting gig. They all kinda did, really. The twin surfer-dude sons were easily the worst, not that you can blame them.
Some of the jokes were funny, even if it was only in a lampshading kinda way. I can see it getting a second season, easily.
I’m about 8 or 9 episodes in and the fourth wall stuff stops after the first (maybe second) episode.
I don’t agree with the EW column, or rather I agree with the ‘facts’ but I’ve been liking it anyways. For example, they don’t explore the widow and divorce stuff. Well, WRT the dad dying, no, they don’t, but they didn’t talk that much about Pam dying either. They do talk a bit more about Kimmy and Fernando, but they’re relationship (so far) has been there for some comic relief and I expect will bring at least some Gibbler-Style drama to the show, so the effects of a divorce and how it plays out with the kid(s) will probably come up.
Macy Grey was lifeless/deadpan…yeah, well, that’s Macy Grey for you.
It also seems odd that the author ‘shamed’ Stamos/Saget/Coulier/Loughlin for hardly being in it and then a paragraph later says that the Olsen twins made the right choice and shouldn’t be shamed for not being in it. Which is it? And how quickly he forgot from the beginning of his article that E1 was a reunion special so of course many of the old cast were just making cameos.
So, screw the reviews, I like it. It’s tough to compare a show you binge watch over a day to one you watch over the course of a year or years, but at this point I might like Girl Meets World better, but I certainly don’t think it deserves the terrible reviews I’m hearing about it.
No, he’s not. He’s insulting the writer of a work for what he wrote. He was an asshole, and he called him out on it.
FWIW “Variety” reports it has been renewed for a second season. Netflix does not release ratings. Critics didn’t like it, fans were mixed but it did well on social media, if that is worth anything.
Unfortunately, something between enjoying shows like Full House and now is that I cannot get over the laugh tracks. I tried watching this with my wife (she loves it), but the laugh track seemed like it was extra loud, and it detracted me from getting the joke, much like when a movie has sound effects higher than the voices of the actors, and you can’t make out what they are saying due to the explosions or whatever going on.
I watched 1.5 episodes. It’s every bit as terrible as the original. I don’t think I’ll watch any further.
If you liked the original you’ll probably like the reboot.