Posted on 04/15/2017 5:44:36 AM PDT by Morgana
Fans don’t like to let their favorites go, but now they don’t have to. We live in a world desperate to remake, reboot, and flat-out return to beloved franchises, hunting the closest thing to a sure audience there is. But the more beloved these continuations are, they harder they are to get right. Fans want them to somehow be exactly the same while still being fresh and new, an impossible request—except, it turns out, for the return of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
The show returns today on Netflix with its 11th season, 18 years after season 10 ended in 1999. There’s an all-new cast, but it’s still the same show you remember—where two mad scientists force an affable guy and his two robot pals to watch bad, cheesy, and sometimes truly wretched movies, and they make fun of it. It’s a concept that is truly timeless, which may be the primary reason that the new MST3K feels like it’s effortlessly picked back up right where it left off. But what’s new—the cast, the sets, the mad scientists’ house band(!)—these things too feel authentically Mystery Science Theater, to the point where I have a hard time imagining even the most trepidatious fan being disappointed with the show’s return.
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There is something very male about hanging out drinking beer and making fun of bad movies with a bunch of guys. Women will never understand. My wife and all the women in my life utterly abhor MST3K and do see what is funny about it. I seriously think that if women had more of a sense of humor, they would not be so uptight all the time.
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My wife and I watched MST3K as a ritual back in the day. We’ve been watching the “best-of” that is on Netflix at the moment. Now that I know about these new ones - we’ll watch.
Even now if we watch a dumb movie she’ll say something out of MST3K.
“Walking - by Roger Korman”
“Meanwhile, in Movie B...”
And I must say - at least she isn’t so uptight while we’re watching MST3K!
I watch this on Comet TV Sunday night.
Seriously, this show makes me bust a gut!
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