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Published on Saturday, August 8, 1998 - 3:09am |
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The 70's Show pilot review
Well I've seen a couple of trailers for this, and thought it might be pretty funny, but up until now, I hadn't heard any 'buzz' about it. Hopefully we'll be getting screeners of a lot of these TV pilots so we can give y'all all an advance look at this stuff. So enough of me and onto Chaka Khan...
I haven't seen in reviews on television shows, so I figure I would just
write one up and see what you think. It's on the 70's show.
First off let’s just say that I work for a Fox TV station and that this
is a Fox show. I view all show’s that come out on Fox with a great air
of skepticism in order for me to judge how well the show will do. Sure
I would love it if all Fox’s shows were immediate #1 hits. As we can see
the only show that was a hit that premiered last fall was Alley McBeal.
Well I worked all day and really wanted to go see a movie last night,
but my movie partner, my wife, would not be able to go with me. We have
a 3 week old rugrat. I had already taped the pilot’s and I figured,
what the hell, I should go ahead and watch them. There are only 2
theaters in town, and the only movies that I really wanted to watch were
at the one that I was boycotting. Well the show that I will talk about
here is the 70’s show (on the pilot it’s called the 70’s project). I
had heard a bit about this show and was really ticked that it disrupted
my Sunday nights. So already I was praying for this show to fail. I
mean, come-on. Who is going to want to bridge the Simpson’s-the 70’s
Show-The X-files. Well, I will. I loved the show. It had nothing to
do with either of it’s Sunday night partners but I just couldn’t stop
laughing. Other people at my station already told me it was going to be
the hit of the fall, but I just laughed at them. Now, my only
apprehension about this show is that there is such a different audience
(in my mind) for each of these Sunday night shows. I could be wrong
though. It will appeal to anyone that has gone through high-school.
Hell, I started High-school in 1990 and I still saw a lot of my life in
it. The story focuses around a guy and a girl that have grown up as
neighbors since they were around 4. I think that the show will mostly
revolve around us wanting them to have a romantic relationship. (can we
say X-files and wonder years… wow those are 2 shows I never thought I
would say together) They have a weird assortment of messed up friends,
but hey… didn’t we all. The show will take you back to some of your
first experiences in High-school, in a humorous way.
I watched 3 other pilot’s and I enjoyed 2 of them and hated 1, but this
was the one that I plan on watching on a regular bases… hell… it’s on
the main night that I watch Fox… but damnit… I have to watch Tuesday
night’s as well now.. oh well.
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