View Full Version : KICKING TELEVISION: 'Fuller House' and the Stasis of Nostalgia


TMC
04-19-2016, 06:46 PM
http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/kicking-television-fuller-house-and-the-stasis-of-nostalgia-20160419

One of the most vivid memories I have of my adolescence is gorging on Doritos and Pepsi in my friend Tim’s basement and watching TV. There was no junk food in my home. I used to try and make my own Orange Crush from tonic water and orange juice. I was not a cool tween. I don’t know what the cool 12-year-olds were doing on their Friday nights in the late 80s, but they definitely weren’t in Tim’s basement laughing at the comedic stylings of the Olsen twins, cutting-it-out with Dave Coulier, digging on Jesse and the Rippers, crushing on Candace Cameron, and augmenting our sugar cravings with the sweet banality of Full House. Full House has returned to the television landscape as Fuller House, part