Saved By the Bell, the teen sitcom of the 1980s and 1990s, is getting a fresh start at Peacock – and the new streaming service seems to be taking a side out of the Brady Bunch Movie playbook and turning this into a self-confident, meta-show that explicitly comments on its previous iteration. Watch the latest trailer below, which contains a whole piece about the famous Jessie Spano “I’m so excited!” caffeine pill failure.
Saved by the Bell Trailer
Elizabeth Berkley en Mario Lopez are back, respectively, as Jessie Spano and AC Slater, and it seems that both of them may have been attached to their high school experiences a little too much in the intervening years. Slater works as the gym teacher at Bayside, chaperoning a dance and thinking about his own high school glory days. And although the trailer takes time to introduce a new class of students (and throw a Kardashian joke in there, because they are always hilarious), hit the video on the frenzied climax at a moment when Jessie wildly tells about her estranged situation with caffeine pills to a clueless Bayside student in the hall. Personally, I can not think of a more perfect metaphor for the way in which our culture by default refuses to let go of its nostalgic attachment to the entertainment of its youth.
Here is the official synopsis of the reboot:
When California Governor Zack Morris gets into hot water for closing too many low-income high schools, he suggests sending the affected students to the highest-performing schools in the state – including Bayside High. The influx of new students gives the underprivileged Bayside children a needy and hilarious dose of reality in this comedy inspired by the classic sitcom of the 80s / early 90s of the same name.
The idea that Zack Morris will become governor of California becomes as ridiculous as Ferris Bueller growing up to become secretary of state. But based on this trailer, it seems like the show would be self-sufficient enough to know that it needs to explicitly address Zack’s unconventional wander to civic responsibility. Or a new generation of viewers who did not grow up watching the original show will join these characters in the same way that my generation did when I was younger is still to be seen, but it will take much longer to send me a new streaming service.
Saved By the Bell is “coming” to NBCUniversal’s new Peacock streaming service.
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