Posted on 04/18/2024 11:43:15 AM PDT by DallasBiff
After the social-media blowback that greeted the “Good Times” trailer, Netflix opted to premiere the show without making it available to critics. But the animated series that dropped April 12 merely underscores the pitfalls of leveraging a familiar title without a clear reason for doing so, yielding an edgy comedy that likely would have come and gone with scant notice without the weight of that name.
In addition to the late Norman Lear – who fared considerably better with a “One Day at a Time” reboot – the roster of producers here includes Seth MacFarlane (“Ted,” “Family Guy”) and NBA superstar Stephen Curry. The series was created by Ranada Shepard and Carl Jones, with the latter having worked on “The Boondocks.”
“Good Times” is hardly the first show to try capitalizing on a recognizable title, but the connection has seldom felt more tenuous. And the shift to animation, with the wilder flourishes that allows, not only invites but encourages excess, from talking roaches to gory violence, making the name play more like a cynical grab for attention.
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Overdosing on black stuff , TV ads other ads , movies etc etc etc etc
Libs probably didn’t like the Cross the Mrs was wearing. And the fact that she was married to the father of her children.
They’d scream if a character yelled, that he was “Slim, white, and dyynnnoooomiiitte!”
“can’t hollyweird come up with original ideas”
Not many, that’s why there’s a jillion comic book movies andremakes of classics like Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
Personally I’m looking forward to when Dune 2 is free...also the next Pirates of the Caribbean.
If I never hear another fast food commercial with a loud mouth black that can’t speak proper english doing the voice over it’ll be to soon.
Good Times was a very good tv series. They destroyed it when they fired John Amos. One of the top father figures along with Ralph Waite and Michael Landon.
"You Rule!". No. No you don't.
I'm really sick of all the hip-hop backing tracks in EVERY ad on TV these days. Good thing I have lots of books and retirement coming up. Time agian to read the good stuff.
Ah, BernNadette Stanis. So lovely.
BKs where I am are closing so their little outreach to a certain ethnicity ain’t working.
Unfortunately, Hollyweird can’t come up with anything original these days, like an “E.T” or a “Matrix”.
“If I never hear another fast food commercial with a loud mouth black that can’t speak proper english doing the voice over it’ll be to soon.”
actually, fast krap food is one of the few products that warrants an almost exclusive focus on blacks ... sadly enough, this kind of krap food is consumed in great excess by the poorer social economic classes ... wealthier, more educated, and older, wiser folks tend to avoid this krap as a steady diet ...
I’m torn. If CNN hates it, maybe I should give it a chance.
Can’t hollyweird come up with original ideas.
When they do they are worse than the redo’s flop after flop.
You’re right. He played an excellent father on that show. Amazing how healthy and uplifting those shows were back then.
The classic Good Times theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvDHwiW7VEg
They've driven all the creative talent out of business, and now they're left with angry, agenda-driven, protest "art."
-PJ
peak culture...
As I understand it blacks have a higher than normal rate of diabetes primarily due to diet.
I few years ago I read somewhere; can’t remember where, that Norman Lear never wanted Florida to have a husband to begin.
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