Pawel Kwiatkowski

In an attempt to improve on the 1981 original, the writers came in with an emotional bait-and-switch. It's lazily written, fizzling out towards the end. Starting off as a somewhat successful cringe comedy playing on feelings of nostalgia, the penultimate episode's rewritten ending in form of a forced attempt to inject gravitas into a show that didn’t organically build toward it ruined the show and left me thinking "what was the point?" The show tried to be everything and failed to be anything special in any of those things - comedy, drama, slice-of-life, tragedy, or comfort food. The strongest aspect of the show is the musical direction, aptly injecting Vivaldi's music, setting a pleasant tone to this otherwise severely disappointing rendition.