While we wouldn’t want to see an old and fat Joey Tribbiani and a wrinkled up Rachel, we already feel like we grew up with D.J., Stephanie and Michelle Tanner (it doesn’t hurt that John Stamos doesn’t age).
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So when we caught up with Candace, Jodie and Andrea in New York City on Wednesday, we were curious to know how they felt about the negative feedback from some outlets. “Even though the cameras stopped in 1995”, he says, “we’ve been in each other’s lives nearly on a daily basis the entire 20 years”. “So it’s a testament to what the fans want and not what the critics think”, Candace told E!
It seems that the Full House nostalgia may have been limited only to fans. Saget, Stamos and Coulier pop in throughout the 13-episode season, although the show focuses on the women as they juggle work, parenting and new love interests.
But the weird thing about Fuller House is that it’s not a disappointment – like, say, Netflix’s Arrested Development reboot. I’ve grown, but they are forced to stay the same.
Meanwhile, everyone else is strenuously cautioned against Netflix’s spin-off of the 1987-95 sitcom “Full House”, whose arrival has been awaited with unaccountable waves of excitement from some quarters. It was quite expected that the show would follow the same aspects of the 90’s family sitcom. We’ve always just accepted that D.J. was friends with Kimmy, that obviously Greek Uncle Jesse was in any way related to the three blond Tanner girls and that people found Joey amusing.
Also making appearances are Bob Saget (who played single dad and neat freak Danny Tanner), Lori Loughlin (as Rebecca, Jesse’s wife), Scott Weinger (as Steve, D.J.’s first steady beau) and twins Dylan and Blake Tuomy-Wilhoit (who played Nicky and Alex, the toddler sons of Jesse and Rebecca). “That was the show I wanted to do”. The new plot surrounds DJ Tanner, who is widowed (very similar beginning to Full House) and the family is coming together to help raise her family.
Noticeably absent are Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who alternately played America’s favorite little sister Michelle Tanner.
Over time, he said, he came to regard the “Full House” cast – particularly Bure, Sweetin and Barber – as a second family. “We’ve all embraced ‘Full House.’ It really made us who we are, and it was a wonderful growing-up experience”. It just got more and more surreal, and it was like I can’t believe we’re back here. Two decades after “Full House” left the air, television has plenty of room for all sorts of programming, from edgy to nostalgic. But now she has turned her life around, and sees Fuller House as a chance to go home again.
EW.com’s Jeff Jensen gives the premiere of the “Full House” revival a grade of “F” and the rest of the series a “C-“, calling the show “lazily constructed kitsch that isn’t worth your time or affection”. “For every one beloved comic relief, we could name hundreds that didn’t hit the mark”, he says. The trailer features what fans are calling Comet 2.0, a small puppy that looks just like Comet, stating how they never thought about how much time has passed until thinking about how Comet is longer with the family. “I took a departure from that kind of bias man. He’s a good man”.
I could mix metaphors about Fuller House all day, but what would be the point.
The streaming giant, which has established its presence in the TV world with decidedly unwholesome shows such as “House of Cards” and “Orange Is the New Black”, is attempting to diversify its slate of original series to include family-friendly programs.
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Adds Bure: “Yeah, the kids are always like, ‘Oh, man, I have to go to school.’ And I’m like, ‘Na, na, na, na, na, na!” They did the same thing with X-Files (Netflix is planning on bringing back the X-Files revival) and Gilmore Girls.
