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How Millennials’ Y2K Nostalgia Is Fueling This New Round of TV Revivals — Including ‘Scrubs,’ ‘Buffy’ and ‘Malcolm in the Middle’

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These are all done on the speculation that millennials want to see it for nostalgia reasons.
They haven’t come out yet, so the jury is still out whether Millenials actually want it or not.
- It will be more profitable than not so they will do it. All of it.
Cool, Firefly when?
- Brother, I'm right there with you, but FUCK Joss. Seriously shit human being. Can we get it without him?
  
  I think it's time to accept it's dead but I'd love a show inspired by it
This has nothing to do with nostalgia and everything to do with tv and movie executives being unwilling to make anything without an ipo
- Why take a risk, when you can recycle and print money.
  Fans are partly to blame for slurping up recycled trash.
- The only millennial reboot I've seen work is really more of a genX reboot anyways: beavis and butthead.
  
  Animaniacs wasn't bad, either.
- Yeah I didn't realize I was asking for these. In fact, thinking about Scrubs I was initially excited but then I truly thought about Scrubs.
  S1 to S3 - genuinely great tv S4 to S5 - gradual decline S6 - out of plotlines S7 - writers strike S8 - everyone is not hot and all the old problems are new, recycle everything S9 - don't talk about it.
  So, a few good seasons of TV. But that's how nostalgia works, we think about those first few seasons, not the later ones. Thinking about a reboot now? It won't be good, it just won't be.
  So yeah. I think it's far more likely Hollywood is desperate to keep our eyes on their content for their bottom line and are trying to exploit nostalgia.
  
  Meanwhile, Malcom in tyrant Middle stayed pretty consistent.
Funny, I thought it was because Hollywood is plum fucking out of ideas.
- I’d seriously love to see a Brunnen-G spinoff show set in the years before the insect war. I hate the idea of recasting Kai but it could work if they do it right.
  Unfortunately that show was never more than an underground cult thing, even in its native countries of Canada and Germany.
The only thing I’ll care about nostalgia wise is when it officially becomes 6 seasons and a movie
Scrubs is my comfort show. I don't know how or why it happened, but I'll put it on when I sleep or need background sounds while I do other things.
- The answer's not in your head, my dear -- it's in your butt.
  
  Check the poo...
Oh god is it that hard to come up with something fresh?
Oh right it's strictly about milking money, gotcha.
Only time I can remember a "reboot" working was Karate Kid/Cobra Kai but that was way different.
- I hadn't seen the latest season. The prior season I felt like it was overstaying it's welcome.
They will never replicate Malcolm in the Middle successfully.

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