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'Saved by the Bell': TV Review

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The new Saved by the Bell — Peacock’s reboot of the corny Saturday-morning phenom — could be the brainchild of Jessie Spano (Elizabeth Berkley Lauren), the 1989-1993 series’ idealistic, serious-minded teen feminist.

The reboot is funnier than the original show ever was, but it’s also a far more earnest and socially conscious (some will definitely say “woke”) affair, tackling educational inequality, bias against students of color and the ways in which willful blindness toward racial and economic privilege have pernicious downstream effects on some of the most vulnerable members of society.

It’s what the old Saved by the Bell never was: ambitious. The reboot opens with the familiar faces of Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, now.

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