I’m sadly old enough to remember the show, and I found it sexist even then.

Given how they took orders directly from two older men, I’d question the “independent” aspect.

It came across to me as super male gazey. As someone else wrote, it was a “jiggle” show: showing off as much T&A as they felt they could get past the network censors.

Jeeeesus Christ

As a 10 - 13 year old boy, I did not watch it at the time because I was into female empowerment.

it was gross boomer porn 

Her Spider-Man comparison seems to imply she thinks people didn’t want the reboot because it’s a female cast, but I was wondering if it’s more that women just aren’t all that attached to the property for aforementioned reasons.

I think women are allowed to have one or two action franchises every 17 years—I feel totally fine with that.

It was nonsense with hot women running around in various groovy outfits.  And, as someone points out below, it was referred to as a “jiggle show.”

V.I.P. was probably the Charlie’s Angels of the 90s

I was obsessed with the 2000s ones a young tween which was a terrible thing looking back. I tried to re-watch the other day for nostalgia reasons and it’s super problematic/unwatchable. I think that one and the previous version were def for male gaze though. Like even though I loved the spies/wanted to be like them it…

Let’s not forget there was a lot of 70's nostalgia in the late 90's through 00's.  We’ve mostly switched to 80's nostalgia, and already there are rumblings of 90's nostalgia (sigh)

It was the Baywatch of the 70s. But Baywatch wasn't Charlie's Angels of the 90s, it was just a prequel to the Pam Anderson sextape.

How does it remind you of that exactly

From Twitter: “Think the larger issue here is you rebooted softcore pornography for nostalgic boomers and marketed it as a you-go-girl resistance fantasy”

Farrah Fawcett’s nipples agree that this was a show almost entirely for men.

You are correct, and I think if we are being honest the two reboot movies (particularly the second) were super male gazey.

Well, I’m completely fine with getting rid of all the spider man and other comic book movies too. Sounds great!

You are right and I addressed that in another comment.  Ultimately, Charlie’s Angels was for men.  Jaclyn Smith was the classic beauty.  Farrah Fawcett was the ultimate pin-up girl.  Kate Jackson was the smart and relatable one.  The series was full of intrigue.  It was not made for school girls, but adult males.

One of the comment people here (Batista Thumbs Up) had a pretty good reply in the last Newswire post on this. Basically, nobody cares about Charlie’s Angels as a property - the only reason the 2000 movie was even as a successful as it was, was because two of the three leads were super-stars at the time (and this made…