I don’t follow the entertainment world all that much unless it involves a few specific franchises or unless it concerns something that piqued my interest, but apparently, I’ve been oblivious to the news that people have been considering or are in the process of producing legacy sequels to TV shows from the turn of the century.
Apparently, there’s a Buffy continuation in the works. Malcolm In The Middle is also another show… this trend isn’t new. There was the recent Fraiser show that was cancelled, there was the Fuller House sequel to Full House show, there was the Roseanne show that lasted a season before they got rid of her and redubbed it The Conners, there’s That 90s Show, which is a follow-up to That 70s Show… because nobody gave a rat’s ass about That 80s Show.
So I just have to ask…. who is clamoring for these sequel shows to be made? Is there a fan base that saw all the Star Trek stuff that was coming out and went “Yeah, we’d like some of that for our own show that’s 30 years old and long past the point of relevancy.”
Yes, let’s make a sequel show that’s nowhere near as good as the original and feels even more out of place than the existing stuff does. Why do we need another Buffy show? Why do we need another Malcolm show? Quite frankly, why do we need ANY of these things? All they’re gonna do is ruin the thing you liked as a kid and it’s going to suck on its own merits.
The good news is that both Malcolm and presumably Buffy as well, will be debuting on Disney+. And since I don’t have Disney+, I have no need to watch either show… but then again, I had no reason to see either show in the first place. I’ve only seen a handful of episodes from either show and never got deeper than that in terms of my viewingship or something.
Hey, you know what? If you’re looking forward to these, I wish you all the best and hope these turn out good for your sake… but I’ve got other things to do in the meantime.
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