When Reba Jumped the Shark
Friday, May 9th, 2025Last year I spent a couple of weeks laid up in the hospital with pneumonia, during which I watched a lot of Netflix as I drifted in and out of consciousness in between being woken up by nurses checking my vitals. I rewatched pretty much all of Sex and the City, and it still holds up really well 25 years later. It’s actually an unusual show in that it worked better week by week and season by season, maybe because the stories really do advance in more or less real time as the series continues. Big to Aidan to Big to Aleksandr to Big again just races by way too fast when you’re binging.
I rewatched The Good Place, and that series does flow better when binging. When it first aired, I had a very hard time keeping track of the story from about the middle of Season 2 to the end. There’s just too much going on and it’s too unusual to remember from one fall to the next. Not to mention the network kept moving it around and I missed episoides. But binging has none of those problems, and let’s you see just how truly great this series is.
And then there’s Reba.
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