Punky Brewster (2021)
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| Peacock | Release Date: February 25, 2021 |
Summary:
Foster kid Izzy (Quinn Copeland) meets Punky (Soleil Moon Frye), who is now is a single mother raising her three kids.
Genre(s):
Comedy
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Feb 25, 2021
Feb 25, 2021
Feb 23, 2021
Feb 24, 2021
Peacock's new Punky Brewster is a pretty safe and average example of a neutral nostalgia reboot. It's not oblivious to the differences between 1984 and 2021 and it's conscious of the new challenges of wearing the sitcom-with-heart moniker today. But in its broad approach to both the "sitcom" and "heart," it's basically just Punky Brewster, with all the inconsistencies that entails.
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May 11, 2021
Feb 22, 2021
The original series showed some restraint, keeping Punky’s mom, who abandoned her, off-screen for the show’s four-season run. Having exhausted all there is to say about 40-something Punky in its premiere, the revival grasps for something new and in so doing suggests restraint may be off the table.
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Feb 24, 2021
It saddens me to report that the Peacock sequel represents just about everything that can possibly go wrong with this sort of project. ... It isn’t just the nostalgia that grates early and often. The writing on the show is almost uniformly atrocious, with dialogue toggling between parental bromides (“I don’t know what I’m doing—it’s called parenting!”) and sub-Disney Channel silliness.
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Air Date: February 25, 2021
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