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'Punky Brewster': TV Review

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Let's begin this review of Peacock's new Punky Brewster with a taxonomy of nostalgic TV reboots. There are reboots that exercise progressive nostalgia.

Those shows use elements of the original to attempt something new and meta within a modern world. Peacock's recentSaved By the Bell only occasionally lived up to its aspirations, but isolated the things that were best about the original and used what didn't work to build out a post-modern reflection on class and gender in the sitcom format.

There are reboots — more than in the above category — that exercise regressive nostalgia. Those shows effectively pretend the world hasn't changed or moved on; they're badly dated sitcoms ill-suited for modernity.

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