The TV Station #4 - Fuller House (Our Very First Episode, Again)

Full House, is much much more famous in America, then it ever was here in the UK. Yes it did make it onto British TV in the 90s on the Satellite Channel Sky One (I also read it made it onto Channel 4 but I have no memory of this personally), sure the Olsen Twins are known enough, even there later one season sit-com Two Of A Kind got a lot play and was shown up until a couple of years ago. Going back to the Sky One thing in the early 90s a bunch of sitcoms where shown on that channel including The Facts Of Life, Family Ties, Growing Pains and a few others and I know these are all not alike but my memories don't particularly remember episode plots of any of them at the time but I did remember seeing an episode of one of them some 25 years ago of somebody at a casino winning big on a slot machine but their back was momentarily turned and it turned out a kid they was with actually pulled the lever and it gets caught on camera so no cash winnings for them. In my research it did turn out it was an episode of Full House, so unknowingly something did stick with me from that show.

I suppose partly what I'm trying to say in a long-winded sort of way is that because my Full House memory is a fuzzy memory. I have no nostalgic attachment to a revival show, which I can't say the same about say, Girl Meets World (which I enjoy) as I used to watch Boy Meets World regularly. So I could be seeing this show from A POV that's a lot different to many who watch this. From what I saw this first episode was critically panned, I imagine part of that was in attempts to appeal to fans of the original series and carve its own path and it didn't quite pan out that way.

I actually enjoyed it in all its corniness (same goes for the rest of the series), I even fell for the the more sentimental bits but I'm a big softy. It's never the sort of show I'm ever going to binge but it's characters it turns out I like to spend time with including former annoying neighbour and now housemate Kimmy Gibbler, and I think I have a tiny crush on Jodie Sweetin.

Overall, the sort of show if you turn your brain off I've found really enjoyable, it's charming and I think people have gone into this show way too much with baggage.

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