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Wow, that's a seriously impressive observation! It looks like the 90s are becoming more and more distant with each passing day. Who knows what decade we'll be in when That 90s Show eventually catches up!

I remember the 90s....but I don't remember them being "woke" or "inclusive" in any way. Quite the opposite frankly. Maybe they can do a racially inclusive sitcom that takes place in pre civil war Mississippi next!

So you're saying there couldn't possibly have been a friend group like this in Wisconsin in the 90s

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No, I'm saying the dialogue is tailored for gen z, not accuracy.

90’s show is so cringe. It reminds me of a cheesy 2010’s family channel show. Only tolerable characters are any cast reappearing from 70’s show. Someone should put their foot in the directors ass.

And this is different than That 70s show... how? Because that was most certainly tailored to its target audience.

I hate it so far. That 70's Show had memorable characters, because they were stereotypes. Every single cast member reminded you of someone you knew in highschool.

That 90's Show? All the kids are just clones of "self absorbed naive teenager".

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Its casting is also farther from anything good.

I mean did they try to find the blandest bunch of kids they could? Callie Haverda / Leia is the only one you might remember in a crowd and she delivers her lines like its high school theater. Not that it would save the show with it being written like a Nickelodeon afterschool special.

You can't recreate magic, but I can't believe they greenlit that casting and those scripts.

>Maybe they can do a racially inclusive sitcom that takes place in pre civil war Mississippi next!

I mean, Bridgerton is pretty close.

They also tried to copy the previous characters but have every culture represented (guess they haven’t been to rural Wisconsin) making it just another show that failed to cast accurately.

Fresh Prince of Belair was about a very unlikely rich black family in very much caucasian Belair in the 90s. But it worked because it served to tell an interesting and pertinent story with a stellar casting.

In That 90s Show you can tell the casting was about diversity checkmarks and not telling a good story or hiring the best actors. You can tell because the actors are awful. Sorry kids. It feels forced and cringey.

I was born in the 70s, watched the 70's show in the 90's in my 20's and now watch the 90's show in the 20's.

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The amount of times they said “bro” in the first two episodes made my ears bleed.

From my experience with the 90s its pretty accurate. Maybe a bit of caricatures but that is understandable.

The only thing I can criticize is the lack of other drugs. A kid in my high school got arrested by joint task force with 250 hits of acid. There wasnt close 250 kids that would be willing to take acid at my high school but he brought all of it with him. Heroin was also a huge problem because of the proximity to Philly. So much coke too. It was a small town high school with city high school drug problems.

I know people who went to high school in that part of the country in the 90s and meth would have been pretty accessible. That and prescription opiates.