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Critic Reviews
Nov 25, 2020
Season 1 Review:
At once ironic and sincere, mocking and affectionate (as one might be, looking back on one’s own youth), it starts out well and just gets better. ... The returning cast fits the new mood ably. The younger players are first-rate — even better than one might notice at first, given the general air of nuttiness. But they play different levels with great skill.
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Nov 23, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The show mostly sustains the original’s wholesomeness, delivering sweet, tween-friendly lessons about being true to yourself and giving others second chances. But Saved By The Bell is also surprisingly funny, balancing its reverence for the original with satire that will no doubt speak to fans who grew up on the show.
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Nov 18, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The teen dynamics are a little familiar at times, but the revival dares to tackle class disparity and white privilege while playfully mocking the original’s consequence-free low stakes. It still has heartfelt inspirational speeches… but it makes fun of them at the same time.
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Nov 25, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The Saved By The Bell reboot makes the smart decision to be much more about the new kids at Bayside than about the middle-aged versions of the characters who went to the school 30 years ago. Sure, there’s going to be some self-referential jokes on the show, but Wigfield has that aspect under control so it won’t overwhelm the series.
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Nov 20, 2020
Season 1 Review:
This single-camera, ten-episode Saved by the Bell, which skewers the original in all the right, incisive ways, is a smart, often hilarious reimagining of a show that is beloved more on ironic terms than sincere ones, a fact that the Peacock sitcom understands down to its Bayside-mocking bones.
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Nov 22, 2021
Season 2 Review:
The joke density doesn’t compare to 30 Rock’s, but SBTB shows a distinct ability to generate turns of phrase that are as unexpected as they are hilarious. ... Where the show struggles is in balancing whatever the hell it’s supposed to be. It’s hard not to watch and wonder, over and over, who it’s for.
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Nov 25, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The reboot is funnier than the original show ever was, but it’s also a far more earnest and socially conscious (some will definitely say “woke”) affair. ... Daisy’s classmates from her shuttered school, athletic Aisha (Alycia Pascual-Peña) and reserved DeVante (Dexter Darden), are saddled with underwritten storylines that gradually recede while the rich kids effortlessly command the spotlight. Daisy may now be the one freezing the frame, but there’s a ways to go before the script’s fully flipped.
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Nov 23, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Without minimizing Lexi’s gender identity, Wigfield smartly declines to frame it as Very Special Episode fodder. Less elegant is the revival’s juxtaposition of privileged Baysiders and their bused-in counterparts. The show is thoughtful enough to underline that not every rich kid is white. ... A punchy, intermittently inspired, well-intentioned mishmash.
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The GuardianNov 24, 2020
Season 1 Review:
About every third joke lands, and that’s a generous estimate, even with Daisy’s constant record-scratching breakages of the fourth wall quickly wearing on the audience’s goodwill. Name-drops of timely musical acts like Migos or Post Malone often take the place of actual humor, symptomatic of a laziness that creates a sort of resentment for how good the occasional zingers can be.
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