It seems we are now living in an age where every TV show from the late eighties and early nineties is either getting rebooted , remade or a sequel. Well there's a new show that we can add to that ever growing and seemingly never ending list and just like with the new series of Animaniacs this show not only brings back several cast members and is a show that I was excited to watch and so here is my review of the 2020 sequel of Saved By The Bell also called "Saved By The Bell" enjoy.
The premise for the show is that Zack Morris is now Governor of California and one day he closes down alot of under privileged schools and so in order to save himself he sends all of those kids affects to higher performing schools which includes Bayside High. The original Saved By The Bell didn't have a story either and so to expect this new version to have a plot would be stupid and the premise is honestly really interesting even more if you watch the Zack Morris Is Trash Youtube series.
This show actually does have alot of the original cast reprising their roles with those reprising their roles being producer Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris , producer and still hot as all hell Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski , producer and very hot as all hell Elizabeth Berkley as Jessica Spano and producer and seemingly never aging Mario López as A.C. Slater. Joining the are John Michael Higgins as Principal Toddman , producer Josie Totah as Lexi , Mitchell Hoog as Mac Morris , Belmont Cameli as Jamie Spano , Haskiri Velazquez as Daisy , Alycia Pascual-Pena as Aisha and Dexter Darden as Devante.
I have to say that as someone who grew up with the reruns of the original Saved By The Bell when it was on in the mid nineties I loved seeing the old cast together to me it was like seeing a friend that you hadn't seen in a long time. It helps that the acting from both the old and the new cast was honestly alot better then it had any right to be anyone who has seen the original Saved By The Bell knows that the acting isn't always that good but here the acting is honestly really good with alot of the actors giving some really good and funny performances.
Now this show is a single camera comedy which means that it wasn't filmed in front of a studio audience which I have to admit I missed the studio audience aspect of the show. However due to how this show is being made it means that we get to see to the school from angels that just aren't possible with a live audience and so for me it's something that works well in the shows favour since it makes the school look alot bigger and it makes it look like an actual school and not a TV show set.
One of my biggest worries about not only this show but really any show these days is that this could be very woke. I won't lie there are alot of scenes that defiantly but at the same time the original show also dealt with social issues as well and so it would seem very out of place if this reboot didn't talk about social issues that are effecting todays teenagers , on the flip side of that however this reboot / sequel does get a little heavy handed with the issues that it's talking about which is something that I personally didn't like.
Like alot of shows these days this show is airing exclusively on a streaming service with the streaming service in question being the NBC owned Peacock. Peacock / NBC it seems are following the Netflix and Hulu trend by releasing all the episodes at once which to me isn't my preferred way of watching a TV show i'm old fashioned and I prefer to watch TV shows weekly however here I felt that releasing all of the episodes at once worked in the shows favour just because I was honestly having such a good time watching the episodes that I just had to watch the next one.
I want it known that i'm basing this review of episodes one , two , three , four and ten and so i've watched more of this reboot then I have the Animaniacs reboot. As such even tho i've watched five full length episodes I do realise that i've missed at least one appearance from an actor from the original show but at the same time i've seen more then enough episodes to form an opinion on this new show and unlike many critics who work for publications I don't do my reviews based of a single episode so there's that at least.
Each episode or at least each of the episodes that i've seen run no longer then thirty one minuets with I think the longest episode being episode one with runs for thirty one minuets and thirty one seconds. I honesty feel that this franchise works best in thirty minuet doses but at he same time since this sequel show is so good I honestly would have minded if a few of the episodes were a bit longer because I was having such a good time watching each episode.
I will say that if your a fan of the Zack Morris Is Trash Youtube series then you'll love this show because it really does hit home how much of a horrible human being Zack Morris really is. Even the premise of the show pretty much tells you that this guy is a terrible person which is honestly something that I loved because looking back all of these years later yeah Zack Morris was a really terrible human being.
Now then boys and girls this is a comedy show after all and that means that I have to talk about the jokes that are in this show. I'm not going to lie I thought that this show was honestly funny you can tell that the writers of this show are fans of the original show and so because of that you get alot of jokes that also serve of homages to the original show which while those were funny I did grow tied of them just because it was the same kind of joke and after awhile it got tiring to see that same joke playout in this show but that's just me.
Overall I can say that this reboot / sequel / revival gave me everything I wanted but that's also the show's biggest problem because it didn't give me anything that I didn't know that I wanted. I can very easily say that this show is ten times better then Saved By The Bell: The New Class but that's not really a high bar to reach and I do recommend any Saved By The Bell fans check this show out and yes the theme song is pretty bad as well as for what rating I give this show this show gets a 7 out of 10 from this old school Saved By The Bell fan.
All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either Wikipedia , Google Images or the official Saved By The Bell fandom wiki page. In what is becoming a bit of a trend for me I honestly have no idea which website would be best to get images from either show or anything to do with Saved By The Bell just because the quality across all three websites is about the same and so I say use whichever website you want and remember Zack Morris Is Trash.