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Please don’t. Perfect Strangers, in large part, was rooted in a legal immigrant’s love affair with the United States and its unique, beautiful culture.
If it were rebooted now the characters would be race swapped, gender swapped, and the moral of each episode would be how America is flawed, evil, and unfair.
Zhe would be a gay, paraplegic, transgender, non-binary, black Muslim.
No. It stands from be on its own. Hollywood doesn’t need to reboot every property that ever existed. How hard is it really to think of another odd couple scenario?
If they have to do Perfect Strangers, let it be about their kids.
Agreed. The opening told a great story too. Studios crapping about 200 million dollar origin stories every few years could really learn a thing or two about exposition from the opening to Perfect Strangers.
Yeah, my wife and I have been watching it. It looks absolutely gorgeous in HD. Whoever cleaned the show up to get it ready for HD deserves a raise. It is immaculate.
Here's some updates on the project.
http://www.eonline.com/news/888758/roseanne-revival-looks-like-a-happy-reunion-see-what-s-happening-behind-the-scenes-of-the-abc-series
Looks like they've designed the sets to pretty faithfully recreate the old Conner home. Not sure how they will rectify this with the last season of Roseanne (originally referred to in the last episode as a story written by Roseanne to deal with Dan's death / Jackie being gay / Darlene being married to Mark and Becky to David, etc...)
We'll see what happens, but I've got zero faith in the show. Don't know who the new kids are in the last picture, but they certainly went full-PC. I thought Roseanne was over that kind of stuff, but apparently not.
EDIT: One of the girls is playing Darlene's daughter. She's a dead ringer for Melissa Gilbert too.
Movie, I think, though only marginally so. The film was a tad more realistic in some regards. Movie Kiriyama was superior to the book one, in my opinion. And Kou Shibisaki's unearthly beauty and haunting performance as Mitsuko could never be done justice on a black and white page.
At least now we know the speed of stupid. (When Jackie was trying to heat up her coffee in the microwave with no electricity.)
The line Leon gave about sinking his life savings into his boyfriend's bookstore "wisely located directly across the street from the public library."
Another good episode is when Booker goes to the car show with another woman, and Jackie uses Roseanne's wedding ring to make him pay for it.
And also the one where Roseanne and Dan start throwing each other's stuff out of the door. Great stuff.
Officially? When she went Segal on a train. Technically, when they won the lottery. In reality? The show was in a slow descent from season one. Each successive season was just a little bit worse than the one before it.
They were all funny (except for the last season), but the raw charm of the first season didn't last long. Roseanne's character moved closer and closer to Roseanne the person. She went from being rough around the edges to just being rough. She went from being a strong woman to a nasty, man-hating third wave feminist. And the more her personal life fell apart off-screen, the more vindictive her character became on-screen.
I hated the way Jackie morphed into a complete bumbling fool at the end. Ditto for Mark.
Once Roseanne dyed her hair black the show, as it had existed previously, was effectively over.
Season 1 is the gold standard for me. No other season even comes close.
Every first season episode was great. Don't know why, but I always liked the tornado episode. And also the one were Jackie drove Crystal over the bridge where her former husband Sonny was "buried."
Another good one was Dan almost (and eventually) getting into a fight at the bar on his birthday.
The episode where Dan and Roseanne get into a big fight after she quit Wellman's and thinks she's found a job but hasn't is another good one. Ditto for the one where Jackie plays mom while Roseanne is out of town.
The first season (and some of the second) were so real and authentic to what it was like growing up in the lower middle class of 1980's suburbia. The pain and heartache, the struggles, the fun, the laughter and love...
The only show that was ever more authentic was the Wonder Years.
Maybe Kiriyama. Great character.
Loved Mitsuko too. The first time I saw this movie was an old Netflix copy (back when they actually sent discs by mail) with bad sub-titles which made Mitsuko an even more legendary character. After getting punched full of bullet holes and trying multiple times to get back up, when she finally goes down for good the death counter which normally comes on screen after a death comes up with one small twist. It read --
Mitsuko Souma. Dead?
I thought it was such a perfect ode to such a powerful character with incredible will, almost as if even the creators of the film could not bear to see her go.
Too bad it was just a typo.