“Mad About You” Trailer

If people are going to do reboots, it should be as a limited run ONE season show.

I like the idea of seeing what happened to the characters.

It's when they over stay their welcome, ahem Will and Grace, that it gets tedious.

R1 so like Gilmore Girls did?

Helen Cunt remains aggressively hideous.

She really looks horrible there. Frightening even. Surely they could have used a better picture.

I would time in for the SJW lesbian daughter and man bun son and all their eye-rolling.

Paul: So you picked your college yet?

Son: Dude! I make millions showing my ass on Instagram! Who needs that college shit?!

Jamie: So, how's Mychayla?

Daughter: Shut it, Boomer!

OP: Will & Grave could last forever. I love it, and I'm sad it's ending.

Helen Hunt has done very bizarre things to her face.

They should do a Mary Tyler Moore reboot

She no longer looks human.

Isn’t Helen Hunt a muff diver?

What is Spectrum Originals?

Spectrum Originals. That’s really scraping the barrel bottom of the TV world.

What has Helen Hunt done to her face? I can't even figure it out. She looks so weird.

Past 20 years have been rough they look so old.

Are sure that’s Helen Hunt and not drag queen Willam?

^^Are we

She looks amazingly old. Does she lie about her age, she’s supposed to be 56 but looks like she’s in her 60s, and that’s with makeup.

Great call r15, and now I can't unsee it.

Not a Willam fan, but he would be funnier, sexier, and more interesting in this.

That said, Willam's chin is in serious Leno territory now. He needs to take a trip to South Korea and get that shit sorted.

Helen Hunt is a walking, living, anti-smoking PSA.

I hate this show with the heat of a thousand suns. I hated it back in the 90s, I hate it even more now, and I hate myself because I know I'll make myself watch it.

I mean...I don't usually comment on people's looks--unless it's positively--BUT she looks terrible.

First review. Not a rave but does not think it's bad:

John Pankow was so good on that Matt Le Blanc show.

That narrator has what I call a 'silky voice.' My crazy ex had it. I hate it.

Like Murphy Brown, this is a reboot nobody asked for and nobody wanted. Has anybody even thought about MAY since it went off the air?

Jesus you queens are getting tired. Helen Hunt is twenty years older and looks it. She looks like a 56 year old Helen Hunt. People's face change as they get old. You think every actress should look like plastic Bravo Housewives with golf ball fillers, fake lips and forty pounds of make-up? She has always been a plain girl and she looks just fine. The show was a nice 30 minute diversion, was never meant to change the world and it didn't. But it would be nice to revisit the characters again.

Is Judy Geeson in the reboot?

Mad About You was the Cathy of TV shows.

Never forget...

Ironic that Helen's face looks like it met the business end of a twister.

I'll pass.

Variety:

It wasn't particularly funny in the original run - whose desperate idea was to revive it?

Paul Reiser is not hot any more. I'm gonna pass on this one.

Was Paul Reiser ever hot? ^

Whhhhyyyyyyyyy??!

I'd prefer a Cybil or Grace Under Fire reboot first.

Once this fails, will Reiser push for a My Two Dads revival?

r36- YES!!

I do not even know what Spectrum is. Is it a channel or a streaming service I won't pay for?

Why does Helen Cunt look like Fire Marshal Bill?

"The Nanny" reboot would have a better chance than this. I don't even recall what the premise of that mediocrity was, except for the fact that their dog was very sweet.

The reviews (so far) are pretty respectable and the critics (grudgingly) give this revival credit for being better than they anticipated; however, these reviews to me also prove yet again how horribly fickle critics can be. On the one hand they fault these old shows, like "Murphy Brown" for example, for trying too hard to be in the "now" by addressing current cultural and political issues, but then they turn around and say the problem with "Mad About You" is that it's stuck in the past and doesn't give new audiences any reason to care.

Not to say either position is wrong, just that reviews like this prove that, no matter what, critics simply can never be satisfied. These shows are always damned if they do and damned if they don't.

What’s that now, R37?

[quote]I do not even know what Spectrum is. Is it a channel or a streaming service I won't pay for?

It's a cable company like Comcast. Only Spectrum customers can access it for now until the DVD's . Just like Glenn Close's show "Damages" which was only available on Direct TV.

How the hell are they still living in the same apartment?

Do you mean to tell me that they've raised a daughter from birth to adulthood in a 1-bedroomed apartment?

I know New York real estate is expensive but c'mon! This is just sloppy, lazy production.

R45, maybe she slept on the couch like we did.

Damn, Helen looks like the reverend from Poltergeist now.

Reviews are not good

Who the hell even wanted a Mad About You reboot? Nobody who wasn't an adult in the 90s even remembers this show. It isn't a show like Friends, Seinfeld, Will and Grace, etc. that had a big impact on culture and is still huge around the world.

Nobody asked for this.

I liked the look of it. Except for Hunt's lips. But overall, I think it looks entertaining. Lighten up, bitches. Sometimes I think you dry old things hate as a reflex.

Not since “Cocoon”have seen such a love story ...

[quote]Who the hell even wanted a Mad About You reboot? Nobody who wasn't an adult in the 90s even remembers this show.

Well if nobody from the 90s remembers it I guess we just can't have it.

But that could be problematic for any future production, if memory of it is a requirement for going ahead.

R54, my point is who was even clamoring for this reboot? With Friends and Will and Grace, those shows are still remembered fondly and are still popular all over the world. But Mad About You?

Well, who cares? Does it need to be justified? People pitch show ideas all the time and people make decisions about whether to invest.

It was a well written, well viewed show that won twelve Emmys. With the trend toward reboots, it's a logical candidate on that basis. It has slightly more to recommend it on that basis than a totally new idea that may or may not fly so therefore, as an investment, it is lower risk.

I'm sorry you find the obvious so upsetting and difficult to understand.

Hollywood hasn’t had an original idea in decades.

Neither have DL posters ^

Reviews are not good but they're also not horrible. Most critics agree that the show isn't very timely and that the reboot wasn't necessary but quite a few also say they found it to be a pleasant surprise, particularly since it's not trying to be anything other than what it was originally. Still, I'd be surprised if Spectrum produces more than the 12(?) episodes that were ordered initially.

[quote]They should do a Mary Tyler Moore reboot

r8- They did. It's called "Murphy Brown".

They'd have to boot Mary and Rhoda pretty hard.

Helen has need an eye lid lift since kindergarten.

^^needed

So unless you have Spectrum you can't watch it?

It's hard for people like Helen Hunt to lie about their age as she's been acting since she was a kid. Same with Elizabeth Taylor.

R65, yes, that’s Elizabeth Taylor’s biggest problem nowadays.

Elizabeth has not changed her story about her age in almost ten years.

Helen looks like a melting crash test dummy.

Hunt’s face is too uncanny valley distracting for me to watch this.

It's like she's some sort of reconstructed burn victim.