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While it certainly ticks the boxes for comfort food TV, and John Larroquette has done some interesting things with his curmudgeonly Dan Fielding, there’s ultimately nothing actually funny that comes from transplanting a very ‘80s series into 2023.
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Even with a revamped cast, tweaked dynamics, and the ongoing reevaluation of America’s judicial system, NBC’s sitcom remains the same as it ever was: pretty OK.
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Rauch and Larroquette evince great chemistry and the new characters show promise, but much of the writing seems stuck in the ’90s.
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Generating initial curiosity, though, isn’t the same as sustaining interest, and this is one of those efforts to cash in on a familiar title to be filed under “Nobody Really Asked For This.” Perhaps that’s why after watching a handful of episodes as “Night Court” basically goes through the motions, the summary judgment is show dismissed.
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Hearkens back to the original with some frequency and, through its first six episodes, swings back and forth between somewhat promising and thoroughly embalmed. It’s a still-fruitful setting too often wasted by writers who aren’t quite sure how they want to adapt the format to a very different era of television. At least the new creative team has Larroquette back in tow, ever a master of the multi-cam.
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Mostly it’s a weird little show, not quite sure what it wants to be in terms of comedy nor how much it wants to reference the original in lieu of staking out its own claim on sitcom mediocrity.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 0 out of 7
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Mixed: 3 out of 7
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Negative: 4 out of 7
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Jan 19, 2023This reboot is not officially endorsed by Mr Plinkett. Btw, can someone help that old man fix his VHS player...