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I see where the original creator, of All in the Family, along with ABC are going to resurrect the old sitcom along with The Jeffersons.  The 1970's are a long time removed from 2019 and so much had changed in our Nation that I wonder if they can find their magic again?  Woody Haroldson as Archie Bunker?  Marisa Tomei as Edith?   As most who has watched sitcoms know much of the success of a show has to do with the writing as well as the actors ability to add life to the writer's' scripts.  So much has changed you wonder if the same type shows will make it?  I just don't know but for me I don't think it would stand near as much a chance as say "Married with Grandchildren" if such was attempted.  

I got a feeling that they will try and secularize All in the Family as well as The Jeffersons and I just wonder if people will buy it?  I have a feeling that whatever shows air it will be minute by minute lambasting and making fun of Conservatives and White Protestant Male Americans or never mind White Protestant Americans but White Americans with religious beliefs.  I'm sure with Jimmy Kimmel involved with the show and Jammie Foxx it's going to be a mass political assassination of what for years would be thought of as "Traditional American Values" and a mass murder of the MAGA mentality along with a predictable portrayal of President Donald Trump as some bumbling politician.

Murphey Brown reboot didn't seem to catch fire and everyone knew what that was going to be as well.  I think the new All in the Family and The Jeffersons will be Murphey Brown on steroids, politically but we'll see.

Be as the Bereans ( Acts 17:11 )

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The originals were good and worked because of time period they
were shown.
It's a completely different time in history now. Completely different
people, completely different politics, completely different world we
live in.
 
I'd never begin to watch Foxx in anything he does or those involved 
in either show. Just more nauseating liberal propaganda that's only
funny to sick losers.
 
Jutu posted:

I never understood the appeal of either of those shows. Of course I saw them in reruns so I guess *you had to be there*.

I always saw them as making fun of the ultra conservative through puns and their script writing but so much has changed from that time period, and given the such highly polarized state of the Nation today I can't help but believe that current Hollywood writers will totally botch the new show and not pass on the opportunity to make political statements.  Neither "All in the Family" nor "The Jeffersons" was Politically correct but both were similar.  The nation in Archie Bunker's world would never have elected Barak Obama and Women were not the typical nieve (50's) wife that Edith was just learning of her emancipation from a typical male chauvinist, keep a woman in the kitchen barefoot, Archie Bunker type.  

I'm not saying it can't be done as some people are but I'm just highly skeptical that it will be done properly.  I think they would fare far better, if possible, to go back another 20 years and analyze some of the 1950's early 1960's shows where politics was hardly ever made a part of the script.  Same as with Johnny Carson's Tonight Show and it's writers who stayed mostly comical without becoming highly political as today's late show writers do all the time.

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