Sky Clagett

While not totally void of some entertaining qualities, saying this show is better than the original theatrical live action piece is like saying that someone on crutches runs faster than a paraplegic. In an eight episode season, with episodes over an hour each, the show manages to feel entirely rushed, almost completely butchering if not removing key themes and takeaways from both originally deep characters and storylines. Without spoiling anything or naming specific sequences for paragraphs on paragraphs, this live action series offers a vapid, shallow (not to mention dully acted) and cobbled together interpretation of a show that to this day still manages to be peak television. It certainly manages to entertain in small doses for those who are curious to experience brief pieces of nostalgia bait, but beyond that, it’s a shell of what the original series offers.