Duck! The Internets are exploding with news that Full House will be getting a reboot courtesy of Netflix, where apparently they are drunk with the power of their newfound ability to make television hits.
How else to explain this half-baked and silly plan? This time out, it’s DJ Tanner all grown up (and still going by “DJ”?). She’s a recently widowed veterinarian who will need Kimmy Gibbler to come live with her and sort her mess of kids out.
1. This poor family and their spouses meeting untimely deaths. Don’t they look both ways? Wear a seatbelt? Learn not to text and drive? Is this a Disney property? Oh; wait.
2. Kimmy Gibbler is NOT sorting anything out. (Aha: situation. Comedy.)
3. If Uncle Jesse is still chasing chicks 30 years on, despite the amazing good looks of the amazingly well-preserved John Stamos…YUCK. (Yes, I am well aware of his marital status to Aunt Becky as of the series finale.)
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It’s great that Candace Cameron Bure suddenly wants to work again (just how big was that dump truck full of money?) and it’s wonderful that Andrea Barber and Jodie Sweetin will get, well, work, but does it have to be this? Netflix, you are supposed to be producing much, much smarter television than this. How about giving the ladies a whole new series to play with that has a little wink to where we got to know them?
I absolutely loved Full House, by the way, so much so that after my formative years ended and I finally saw what Bob Saget’s real stand-up was like, as compared to that tall, goofy dad-type from AFV, I was mildly traumatized. (Though his version of “The Aristocrats” is a triumph of absolute filth.)
I even understand the gamble: if even one of the planned dozen or so reboots of our favourite shows from “days gone by” (see what I did there?) turns out not to be utter garbage, it’s a win for production companies and fans alike. Case histories, however, suggest that, unscientifically, it’s about 0.5 shows out of a dozen that return in a watchable, enjoyable format and not some pale, ugly imitation that smacks of desperation for all concerned.
So to all the TV reboots? How rude! Cut. It. Out.
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