No doubt the best part of my Thanksgiving weekend was spending time with my family and being thankful for, you know…<\/p>\n
The new reboot version of\u00a0Saved by the Bell<\/em>!<\/p>\n Oh damn this show is good, surprisingly good, and kudos to the folks at Peacock TV who were nice enough to let me watch the first “season” (10 episodes) for free.<\/p>\n Note to self: cancel 7-day “free trial” to Peacock Premium Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n The new\u00a0Saved<\/em> works the same way that\u00a0Fuller House<\/em> worked five years ago. Take an admittedly silly family comedy from 30 years ago and tow a line between keeping the campy goodness of the original and lampooning it for all its worth. That’s actually the best part of\u00a0Saved<\/em>: making fun of itself, and making fun of, well, things that should be made fun of. Whereas your typical ’90s program took political correctness a bit too far, the new\u00a0Saved<\/em>\u00a0has no such problem. Mostly it’s calling white people out on their silliness. Yeah, I kept thinking to myself\u00a0oh crap that’s me<\/em>.<\/p>\n The show really does introduce some thought-provoking topics a la its predecessor (and every show about teenagers), and lets one think about social issues in an honest way. It’s sort of a socially-conscious\u00a0South Park<\/em>, without the potty language and gratuitous violence. It’s obviously geared more toward adults than to kids, though hardly\u00a0adult<\/em> in a seedy way. It’s for grownups who’ve got kids, who need to laugh a little and think back on their high school days and, well, laugh a little.<\/p>\n Yeah, that’s me.<\/p>\n So thankful.<\/p>\n #blessed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No doubt the best part of my Thanksgiving weekend was spending time with my family and being thankful for, you know… The new reboot version of\u00a0Saved by the Bell! Oh damn this show is good, surprisingly good, and kudos to … Continue reading