Punky Brewster (2021): Season 1

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Peacock | Season Premiere 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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Joel Keller

Feb 25, 2021

Sure, the new Punky Brewster is still a sitcom aimed at younger viewers. But it’s got a warmth and sweetness to it that feel genuine. And it’s smart enough to deal with Punky as she is now, not trying to make her into some grown-up version of her 8-year-old self. Read full review

Amber Dowling

Feb 25, 2021

While this show isn’t exactly new or ground-breaking as so many savvy viewers perhaps expect a comedy to be these days, Punky’s rainbow-lens goggles and penchant for finding the joy in life may be the fare that ragged families everywhere need right about now. Read full review

Shannon Miller

Feb 23, 2021

Rather than tinker with the Brewster-verse in order to bring it to the present, the creators seemingly place these characters right at the edge of something potentially interesting before ultimately resting on rote storytelling. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

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. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

May 11, 2021

Your tolerance may vary for sentiments like “You don’t need to make room for Izzy in the apartment, you need to make space for her in your hearts” — mine is low — and there’s nothing here that strives to be remotely novel. Read full review

Rob Owen

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. Read full review

Judy Berman

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. Read full review

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Elijah1999

Mar 6, 2021

It’s the most perfect successor to the original series. It has become popular on peacock

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Rinne77

Apr 14, 2021

I want to love this for the Punky Memories and the little one is a stand out! But the rest of it? The writing is so bad it should be studied and I think their is a good reason that the retuning adults never made it in acting as well, it’s really bad I hate to say. I think with better writingI want to love this for the Punky Memories and the little one is a stand out! But the rest of it? The writing is so bad it should be studied and I think their is a good reason that the retuning adults never made it in acting as well, it’s really bad I hate to say. I think with better writing that things could improve as even Freddie Prince Jr looks like a rookie actor with little skill.
It could have been a strong show fostering more young girls to be themselves the was the original did but instead it’s a pandering afterthought.
If there is a season two I hope they replace all the writers.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: February 25, 2021
- No episode information is currently available for this season