View Full Version : Fuller House crosses the line of nostalgia as necrophilia


TMC
02-27-2016, 01:52 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/you-already-know-fuller-house-is-bad-but-are-you-adult-enough-to-resist-it/2016/02/24/b2116982-d994-11e5-925f-1d10062cc82d_story.html

"There’s a point where nostalgia becomes more like necrophilia, and Fuller House immediately crosses that line," says Hank Stuever. "Exhumed on the pretense of millennial desire (you loved the show as kids; you’ll love it even more as stunted, binge-watching adults), Netflix’s *13-episode revival of the old ABC sitcom Full House is less an update than an irony-free pantomime of the past. It represents a new low in the current culture’s inability to leave behind the blankies, binkies and wubbies of one’s youth.” PLUS: Fuller House is selling a memory (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/arts/television/fuller-house-netflix-review.html) — one that is a "self-conscious, dated and maudlin reminder of the ceaseless march of time and your inevitable demise,” it should’ve been called "The Same Show, 29 Years Later,” (http://flavorwire.com/563083/fuller-house-is-the-spinoff-we-knew-we-didnt-need-and-still-dont-want) Fuller House's semen jokes (http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/02/fuller-house-netflix-review) are like “jarring jolts of modernity,” it is like a porn parody without the porn (http://www.avclub.com/review/netflixs-fuller-house-porn-parody-without-porn-232696), the first episode contains more fan service than The Force Awakens (http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2016/02/fuller_house_on_netflix_reviewed.html), what it's like to binge-watch through the entire season at 3 am (http://elitedaily.com/entertainment/binge-watched-fuller-house-nightmare/1399957/), Andrea Barber (http://tvline.com/2016/02/16/fuller-house-review-netflix-series-premiere/) is the revival’s MVP despite not acting for two decades, it is everything Full House fans will want (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/fuller-house-tv-review-868334), Bob Saget can’t wait till the Fullest House reboot, in defense of Carly Rae Jepsen’s terrible (http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/26/carly-rae-jepsen-fuller-house-theme) Fuller House theme, and creator Jeff Franklin calls leaving Full House “honestly the biggest regret of my life.” (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/arts/television/fuller-house-netflix.html)