My First Impressions Of Punky Brewster 2021

 

Ladies and gentlemen it seems to be very common place now for every single streaming service to bring back a nostalgic property. Well the latest TV show from the eighties to get a rival has just been released onto a streaming service and while I didn't grow up with the original show mostly because I was born in the UK in the nineties and as such the original show didn't really air over here and so join me as I review the 2021 rival of Punky Brewster with this new show also being called simply "Punky Brewster" enjoy.

From what I can gather the plot of this show is now single mother of three Punky Brewster meets a young kid who reminds of her of herself. That's all I can really say about the show without going into spoilers since i'm only doing this post based f the first episode and just based of this first episode the story has promise but it's not something that i can see lasting beyond one season since the plot seems like it's one season story in my opinion.

Starring in this series is the shows executive producer Soleil Moon Frye as Punky Brewster and Cherie Johnson as Cherie Johnson. Also starring in this show is Star Wars Rebels and Scooby-Doo star Freddie Prinze Jr. as Travis , Noah Cottrell as Diego , Oliver De Los Santos as Daniel , Lauren Lindsey Donzis as Hannah and Quinn Copeland as Izzy. Now there are a few more actors in this episode but since I cannot find a cast list for this episode i'm just using the shows main cast list and as luck would have it all of the actors and actresses that i've just listed appear in this episode.

As for what I thought about the acting in this episode in all honesty the acting in this episode was at best OK. Since the acting to me at least isn't as good is it perhaps could have been which I guess is to be expected given that this is the first episode of a new series but at the same time you always want to put your best foot forward and give us a good first impression which sadly at least in my opinion isn't the case when it comes to the acting in this episode but here's hoping that the acting gets better as the series goes on.

Now unlike the Saved By The Bell revival / continuation at least from what I can tell this revival doesn't really give that much nods to the classic series at least in this episode anyway. Which while I can see why the makers of this show chose not to include that many nods to the original show since it would alienate new fans but by not including nods and winks to the original show it kind comes of across as that the makers of this show didn't watch the original show and so they don't have that much respect for the original show.

Like I said at the start of this post i've not seen the original Punky Brewster and after watching the first episode of this continuation / revival I don't feel inclined to watch the original Punky Brewster. As such I don't have any nostalgic ties to the original show which in a way makes me prime for this show since like I said I don't have nostalgia for the original show but this is a show that I can't see winning new fans just due to how cheesy this show is which might have been the case with the original Punky Brewster but in this show that same cheesiness that the original Punky Brewster might have had doesn't work in this show in my opinion.

Now this is something that I actually didn't realise until I started to write this part of the post and so forgive me this part is a bit all other the place. I couldn't help but notice but this show has a very similar set up to another revival / continuation that being Raven's Home it's honestly shocking at how similar the set ups to both shows and so I can't help but wonder if the makers of this show were either inspired by Raven's Home or if the makers of this show straight up stole the set up to Raven's Home just due to the fact that the set up to both shows is very similar.

Now then without giving away anything about this episode if your a fan of the original Punky Brewster then you will want to stay around until just before the end credits of this first episode. Since there's something that is said that as far as I can work out from spending a few minuets on Wikipedia which is going to rock Punky Brewster to her very core but i'm not going to say what that thing since it's a pretty good way to get people wanting to watch episode two of this revival / continuation in my honest and humble opinion.

I don't know why this seems to be the case but every streaming service seems to either have a reboot / continuation of a beloved show or movie out or has a reboot / continuation of a beloved show or movie in various stages of development. Is creativity really so dead that every single streaming service needs to have a reboot or a continuation of a show or film on there service why can't these big Hollywood companies come up with new ideas for TV shows why do they have to keep on digging up shows from the past it's honestly getting pretty freaking tiresome hell they've just announced a reboot / continuation of both Fraiser and Icarly and Icarly hasn't been of the air for ten years so why the heck are producing a reboot / continuation of that show I really don't know.

This episode has a total running time of twenty eight minuets and twenty five seconds which for a show that's basically a feel good type of show and that hasn't got that much story (at least in this episode) is the right amount of running time. Since like I said there's not much story to tell in this episode and as such it doesn't make sense to have this episode run any longer then twenty eight minuets and twenty five seconds in my opinion.

Now then since this is a comedy show boys and girls that does mean that I have to talk about the jokes that are in this episode. Or at least I would if there were any jokes to talk about since I didn't laugh once during this entire heck i don't think I even raised a smile for any comedy is always a bad thing but there's always a chance that the jokes in this episode are perfectly in line with the jokes of the original Punky Brewster but even so a comedy has to make you laugh or at least smile and this episode didn't do either of those things for me personally.

Overall this was a pretty bad episode in my personal opinion but weather or not the original Punky Brewster was anything like this reboot / continuation I cannot say for the reasons that i've stated in this post. Now even tho i've listed a lot of bad things in this episode in this very post there are some good things in this episode which like the bad things in this episode i've talked about the good things in this very post but since these are only my first impressions of the show i won't give the show a rating since any show can have a bad episode and for all I know the show could get better in later episodes and you can watch all the episodes of this show right now on Peacock , as for where I got the images that I used in this post well I got the images that I used in this post from the official Punky Brewster fandom wiki page , the official Saved By The Bell fandom wiki page and the official Raven's Home fandom wiki page with my referred website for the images that I used in this episode being the official Punky Brewster fandom wiki page just because the images on the official Punky Brewster fandom wiki page were very high quality and as very high definition.

Saved By The Bell 2020 TV Series Review

 

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.