"Saved by the Bell" Revival Announced at NBCUniversal's Peacock Streaming Service

[JO Sweet Heart]

^^^ I don't know, but to me, those who got worked up over what was said should just be glad that their favorite was even mentioned at all period. Would they rather she had been ignored completely? Who they obviously are not considering are those out there who would be delighted to be acknowledged no matter how it all were to be done.

God bless you and her always!!!

Holly (a day one fan of the most recently deceased country singer Hal Ketchum)

P.S. If she herself did not like what was said, then she is the only person who is owed an apology since she is the one who was being brought up in the first place.

[irehtman]

Originally Posted by JO Sweet Heart

^^^ I don't know, but to me, those who got worked up over what was said should just be glad that their favorite was even mentioned at all period. Would they rather she had been ignored completely? Who they obviously are not considering are those out there who would be delighted to be acknowledged no matter how it all were to be done.

God bless you and her always!!!

Holly (a day one fan of the most recently deceased country singer Hal Ketchum)

P.S. If she herself did not like what was said, then she is the only person who is owed an apology since she is the one who was being brought up in the first place.

Yeah, let's dropped this Selena Gomez topic out of this sitcom for the rest of the time being...

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Peacock's 2-Part '90s Throwback Series Deserved At Least One More Season

Peacock rebooted Saved by the Bell in 2020 for a modern audience and gave viewers two excellent seasons that warranted at least one more.

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Was the reboot too late

It’s an interesting point, but I don’t think it’s the main problem.

I think the root of why the SBTB 2020 reboot failed was because it seemed to be deeply ashamed of its source material. The reboot seemed to spend most of its time expressing disdain for and mocking the original series. It felt like it was written by people who were embarrassed about the fact that they’d previously enjoyed SBTB. It was as if they wanted to impress their fellow Hollywood writers by being as snarky as possible in tearing it to pieces. (This is part of the reason they should have never involved the 30 Rock writer; their style of comedy and Saved By The Bell’s style just don’t match.)

Compare that to Cobra Kai (the gold standard for “nostalgia done right”) where the showrunners were diehard fans of the original Karate Kid movies and weren’t shy about it. Sure they poked fun at the zanier elements of Karate Kid, but it always seemed to be done in a gentle, affectionate way, and then they’d come up with a surprise twist that justified/explained the odd decisions the characters had made in the old movies….and it WORKED.

Cobra Kai managed to remind the older fans why they loved Karate Kid while making the series inviting for younger fans who were unfamiliar with the franchise, and the result was one of the few modern series that had multigenerational appeal.

The difference between Cobra Kai vs. SBTB 2020 was that it felt like the CK writers were thumbing through an old yearbook reminiscing about and telling fun stories, while the SBTB reboot writers were looking through an old yearbook and mercilessly mocking everyone in it, just to get cred with modern critics.