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Judgmenl posted...

Was obvious this was going to happen.

This. Netflix is incapable of creating worthwhile sitcoms, and blatant nostalgia-pandering shows are rarely good. So it was a bad combination right from the start.



faramir77 posted...

The 90s are such a boring and tired setting, I honestly don't get the appeal.

Nostalgia.

That's literally it.

It's pretty much the foundation of the original series as well, and tons of other things (like Grease or American Graffiti or even Back to the Future). "20-30 years ago" has been an extremely popular genre for about 50 years now. It's just the window being exploited that keeps moving forward.

The real problem is, most people don't really have a ton of fond nostalgia for the 1990s, and I'm not sure anyone has all that much nostalgia for the 2000s... so the nostalgia train may be coming to the end of the line. Especially with modern streaming and Internet content kind of killing all pretense of shared pop culture as-is.



FrozenBananas posted...

Anyone saying theres nothing nostalgic or unique about the 90s was probably like 3 years old in the 90s

I'm saying it and I was older than most of you in the 90s.

90s kids are nostalgic for toys and cartoons (and stuff like Power Rangers), and maybe a handful of games/franchises like Pokemon, but a lot of 90s stuff is so cringe no one wants to remember it, and the decade as a whole sort of lacks the exploitable cultural "feel" that the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s had.

It makes it hard to do "period piece" style shows or films to exploit that nostalgia. It's why Captain Marvel tried and everyone mostly made fun of it. There's not really a robust vein to mine there.