It’s a story filled with immense joy, sadness and, much like the show itself, a group of people learning, growing, and changing with and because of one another. The special, which runs just a little over an hour long, gives a peek into the methodical, dizzying, and intimate experience of bringing six seasons and 148 episodes of one of the decade’s most revered family sitcoms to life. It’s the depth and life-altering scope of such an undertaking that the reunion tries to get across. As meaningful as a network television show can be for the audience, it pales in comparison to the intensive, years-long experience of those responsible for making one. What we were met with was not a simple rehashing of the show’s greatest moments, nor, to the chagrin of some, a new in-character episode, but something that was more illuminating. It was with the recognition of this peculiar fact that I and likely thousands of others of a certain age tuned in to watch “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion” on HBO Max this past Thursday.
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The term harks back to a time when network television still ruled and thanks to cable syndication, a sitcom about a troubled teen from West Philadelphia sent to live with his wealthy cousins in Los Angeles that ended before you learned how to speak could somehow become as core to your being as anything else you encountered in your formative years. But like all cliches, there was and remains a specific logic behind the catchall.
Thanks in part to the fight to secure streaming rights to all the iconic, nostalgia-inducing titles of yesteryear, it feels like the term has been uttered to the point of semantic satiation. The term “‘90s sitcom” has become white noise.
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