Glad to see you here again Will!  Now let’s get Sean and Emily St. James here too!

I was just talking up HOUSEKEEPING at work the other day. Great to see that it’s well-remembered.

I’ll allow it.

Not even a little. Or if so, it’s not noted anywhere online.

Io9 had a much more negative review, which was coming more from the perspective of the books. All respect to Asimov, but I tried reading it years ago and got bored when I realized it didn’t really have a plot (or women). Which isn’t to say io9's opinion isn’t valid...but I’m kind of hoping I can enjoy the series as…

Sounds like you liked it a great deal more than the folks at Gizmodo. I suspect it might be because you haven’t read the books.

Surprised they revealed Demerzal to be a robot right early on. Seems kinda spoilerly...In the books it’s believed robots are completely extinct until the fifth book, and then Demerzal being a robot is an additional twist in the sixth book.

A quote that makes it into every discussion of gentrification is, “They put salmon in the fish tacos, Hank! SALMON!” 

Why on Earth would you start the story with a character who doesn’t show up until the second book? It’s necessary to see the fluidity of Seldon Plan working in order to feel the impact of its sudden failure.

“King of the Hill” is such a wonderful show, and the more I think about, has a lot in common with it’s co-creator Greg Daniel’s other show “Parks and Recreation”. Those two shows balance a somewhat more progressive quality but without bashing and instead, rather celebrating the quirkiness and weirdness of conservative…

Yeah I remember seeing commercials for this and thinking it took place up North or in like California, just based on the lead’s interactions with white people. The stuff my parents tell me about being in Georgia even in the 80s and 90s are wild.

Last bullet point in this review is spot-on. Of all places to set a show like this, presenting Montgomery, Alabama as a locale where the white people were pretty cool about integration and spoke in hushed tones about MLK’s death displays a willful lack of historical knowledge. Check out the book Bending Toward Justice …

If you look at the demographics of who watches broadcast TV these days, I would say the presumed primary audience is people who enjoyed the original show when they were younger.

I think The Simpsons nailed the narration thing pretty well.

A 2020's reboot of a 1980's show about the 1960's

I never kept track, but in the OG show it felt like narration was pretty constant. It tended to be appropriately funny and/or poignant when need be, though. Stern was really good.

Especially this specific time period. It would be more genuine for the creators of this reboot to mine the nostalgic terrain of their own upbringing to incorporate into the show.  I mean, that way it would feel more authentic and knowledgeable rather than pandering to the Boomer crowd yet again (so to speak).

Did a rewatch recently.

Pardon the scalding nature of this hot take, but I think we might possibly have entered into a point of diminishing returns in regards to mining the nostalgia people have for many of the previous decades.