DrollDame

What's with the money grubbing bs? The only way to watch the 5th season is to pay for it. If we're paying for Paramount+ streaming, this should be available to stream the second it's released. To say that those who don't have a cable provider and pay monthly to stream on your platform can't view the most most recent season, which started airing months ago, is pure greed. And that's exactly why I won't give Paramount another dime of this family's money. You don't get to make shows exclusive to cable subscribers and expect streamers to continue paying. If anything, the show should be exclusive and readily accessible for your streamers, not the other way around.

Listen, I watched the original every week at watch parties. I even own the entire original series on DVD. I was young and graduated from college in the second season of the series, so I felt like I was watching characters who were a lot like me. They did have more successful women who had already achieved success and kind of mentored the babies who were just creating their own path to success in life.

It only makes complete sense that those babies, like I, have evolved and achieved success over a 15 year span of time. And it makes complete sense that they're now the mentors helping to guide the younger generations as they all continue to evolve romantically. The wit is very much still present, but those who watched the original as young people, have also evolved intellectually and are naturally less impacted by it as a result. This is not a lesser series; it's simply evolved with us and may have a much stronger impact on the younger generations who are the age we were when the original aired. It's the right series for the new generations. And if folks like me would keep in mind that they're going to react differently to the same things they thought were mind blowing and amazing 1.5 decades earlier, they would definitely see this show offers the younger generations everything the original offered us.

You can either evolve with the series, or you can be one of the folks striving to stop progress because you refuse to embrace change. Why do you want to see more of the same thing you saw 1.5 decades ago anyway? Reboots fail when they don't change the formula at all. We see it all the time with streamers rebooting sitcoms from the 80s and 90s. What worked then, is often incredibly elementary and annoying now. Just imagine a Seinfeld reboot today. The show was funny because it was aimless. The characters talked about pointless crap. Imagine attempting such a series in a time of political turmoil, war, mass shootings, global warming, etc. It would fail in epic fashion. We're living in a very different world and time.

Don't listen to the reviews claiming there isn't a storyline. The lesson behind the entire movie is literally the last line spoken in the movie. And for the folks who say it's all gospel music, they clearly don't ever listen to gospel music. The music was phenomenal, the acting was every bit as good as any dominantly white Christmas movie, and it certainly wasn't boring. Just watch it with an open mind and decide for yourself.