Duuuude! You have some badass merch. I’m definitely getting a hoodie

Primm you stay cracking them good jokes I choked on my spit.

😆

😂 love watching your channel too!

I sooo missed you @primm'shoodcinema. #YoureAnAllStar.⭐️

The voice of Shredder as well.

Belair review kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNJ5psybspiso3k.html

😂😂

Basically lol

who knew? 🤣💀

😂😂😂😂

Better direction tho

Exactly. Like most of the actual family life was fairly real. Yeah there were running jokes and gags, like Jazz getting thrown out the house repeatedly. But most of the shows were fairly realistic, it just didn’t think EVERY day and moment had to be ‘dark’ to qualify as real.

Well... it was first and foremost a situational comedy. So it had to be humorous overall. Yeah, they dealt with serious topics, but it was only a handful of times; maybe once per season. If they're switching genres completely, it's an interesting dynamic to take the approach from a dramatic standpoint. Like yeah it was hilarious that Carlton was constantly being shat on in the original series..... but if something like that were to occur in his daily life for real, he probably wouldn't be as well off, and would probably feel a certain way about it; something they never really addressed in the original series, and treated it as just a joke at his expense.

@@thedefinitionisthis He and Will were basically brothers. Yeah siblings tease each other and come out the other end just fine. That was actually the arc of the Will and Carlton characters that despite their huge differences at the starting point of the series they come to truly love each other in the end. Sitcoms had to be clean (as did EVERYTHING on network TV then). They did not have to be consistently funny. Many had running gags, but the stories were mostly slice of life not trying to chase the laugh. A lot of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’s stories were just about living day to day in a family and not every day being about some over dramatized situation happening. Like doing something you know you’ll get in trouble for with your parents or having to be nice to someone you don’t like or dealing with your siblings annoying friends. And the twist on it with Fresh Prince was Will sometimes applying his Philly logic in ways that either turned the home upside down or just wasn’t the way they ran their household. Which is VERY realistic to taking in a kid later in life who’s lived under rules completely different from your own. That’s as much real life as just sitting in the drama for the sake of being dark and gritty. I am fine with this new series existing and it’s an entirely different format. But to just bring the previous Fresh Prince of Bel Air series under the lens of ‘comedy’ ignores the as important ‘situation’ part of the situation comedy which was slice of life episodic storytelling.

@@thedefinitionisthis Carltons was one of the most dynamic chracters in the original series, last season Carlton had largely changed from season 1 Carlton not just in regards to his relationship with Will, but his whole outlook on life. While he certainly was often the but of the joke, him being "shat on" often served a well thought out narrative purpose, challanging him in his views and contributing to his character growth. I agree that he wasn't handlet perfectly, he could have been the but of the joke less frequently and compared to Will, who's character growth was caused equally by positive and negative evewnts and interactions, Carltons growth was too focused on the negative events. But he is a lot better and more complex character then people tend to give him credit for, especially by the writing standards of the time.

This version is a straight drama, very light on the humor which is what they were going for. All and all very good first episode

One of the best episodes of TV ever. I love the scene when Will and Phil are talking and he starts crying and askes Phil why his dad doesn't want him. Not much can make me cry but that always gets me.

Fresh Prince of Bel Air is the only show to hit soft spots like that. To me, that's just legendary.

@@daoyang223 u must have not watched many shows from the 70s-90s.

“To hell with him!!!!” Never forget that episode man

Belair review kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNJ5psybspiso3k.html

J Dillah for example. Dude's a hip hop artist/rapper but all of his beats were based on jazz. Hell even Japanese Jazz too.

It was a gf dad (John Witherspoon) not uncle Phil

Belair review kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNJ5psybspiso3k.html

They took an original fish-out-of-water story and made it a boring, typical and trite fish-out-of-water story

@@jessereimer302 nah this is awesome because if all american can work then this can work

This show is great!

Facts I'm fuckin with it so far

Jaheim your right! And remember some of this people are white trolls that has nothing good to say about black movies or TV shows!

Show is excellent and NOT JUST because I’m in two episodes. Look at how UNCLE PHIL is written. #StrongBlackHusband #Father

@@OOJJOJ The show won't get cancelled anytime soon. Will Smith got Peacock to give the show 2 season order upfront.

@@OOJJOJ do you really want another show about all Whites are racist and a proud black man finds the courage to fight evil white supremacy systemic racism?

that’s what i’m saying i just got tuned in 🔥🔥🔥

@@jamesray1439 ???What??? Have you actually watched the show????

They were in th original too

Yeah, but she really wasn't that important in the beginning. And I'm assuming they took that closeness with Ashley and Will, and put that with Hilary and Will, which I don't really mind

@@jaheimjohnson2267 I actually remember Ashley being more important then Hillary. No offense to the actress, but she was reduced to a ‘Daddy can I have 500 dollars’ joke the majority of the time where as Ashley actually had agency and layers. I am not saying it is a bad call for this curent show, but if the question is ‘was the original Ashley featured more’. Yes she was. I would say she was actually the more interesting of the two daughters in the original series. It took many seasons for them to write Hillary as anything beyond the airhead who comes in asking for money all the time. Ashley popped as a character way before and far more often then Hillary.

Ashley got more storylines as she got older, but in the beginning she was pretty irrelevant

Ashley was the weakest character imo, 90% of her episodes are just "Wah! Nobody treats me my age!".

She was definitely pivotal the first episode cause Will was a bad influence to her according to Uncle Phil and Viv. Especially when she broke out that rap for prayer lol

I thought the same thing, but it is actually well written

@@combliminarysports6655 I think the writing is lazy imo

The original was 1000 times better than this WOKE BS

@@felixkamber5476 yet my opinion remains the same 🤷🏾‍♀️

@@felixkamber5476 lmao man you need to grow up

Belair review kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNJ5psybspiso3k.html

I agree, I feel like it would be fine as a standalone thing and it feels like the fact its tied to Fresh Prince is just to get some hype around it.

@@Donatez_ not even it’s a realistic version of the older show. Definitely not for hype

It’s fucking awful ahhaha

@@hotspot131638837 I think if it was more of an Atlanta style comedy it would be better, it's really difficult to make something we've always seen as funny turn so dark and people think realism means it's gotta be constant tragic stuff when life is full of ups and downs.

@@Donatez_ exactly that’s what I can’t stand I saw someone explain it “we made a mockery of real life with the og fresh prince” and no it’s just that real life isn’t always down. There’s ups and downs to life. And people have humor it’s not like oh it’s so serious no one laughs no one has fun and it’s all badness. No. That’s not life it’s just goofy show that’s why I loved the og so much. Example:Will smith is cracking jokes with his dad all the way up until he tells him he’s leaving. And than even cracks jokes after to try to comfort himself until ultimately crying and showing how dark the situation really is. It shows the human side. Made will feel real not like some fake show to “oh bad guy in show bad me mad” it was so complex

Ya i remember this episode. Loved the OG Fresh Prince.

the bully basically told will it was in the past and he moved on and will needed to also. that's when Will decided he was going to stay in Philly and not go back to Bel Air. I forgot what was the reason why he ended up going back to Bel Air

@@rxtsec1 basically nbc execs confronted will at his part time job in Philly and said this is not the fresh prince of philidephia and pushed him in a van to go back to bel air. Seriously, it’s in the beginning episode after.

I remember that episode don’t look like this Will gonna have that same opportunity at the moment. That dude wants him dead.

"Your momma like a door handle, EVERYBODY HAS A TURN" "... I forgive you"

Hahaha why? That would be Hella dark, drugs and everything

It’s Riverdale!

I highly doubt Zack and Cody would work that way.

I want a gritty That So Raven. Raven uses her psychic powers to predict killing

@@wildernessstyle8810 sounds more a season two of Wandavision

EXACTLY but people squeezing lemons.

Idk I think it’s off to turn a sitcom into a 45 minute drama piece and while the show isn’t bad from a technical standpoint I would’ve just preferred if it was called literally anything else

Almost all half hour TV programming was Sitcoms back then. A sitcom wasn’t necessarily constant jokes and it didn’t mean you couldn’t be dark or handle serious stories, but the format was just different. It was self contained and leaned toward moral lessons wrapped up in a half hour. Family Matters was a Sitcom, Roseanne was a sitcom, Married with Children was a sitcom. One hour dramas without the laugh track, one liners, and running jokes are just a more common writing style now. And serialized vs episodic story telling has become more common because of streaming so a story being ongoing instead of wrapped in a half hour bow so that we are back to base rules before the next episode doesn’t happen as much. In the past there wasn’t a lot of needing to see episode 4 to see episode 15. Even the fresh prince opening song is just a summary of the premise that allows a viewer to jump into any episode knowing the basic situation without needing to see other episodes.

Will Smith wasn't an actor when he got Fresh Prince, that was his first acting role. The only thing anyone knew about him at the time was the videos from He's the DJ, i'm the Rapper....He wasn't even a famous rapper at the time.

@@lutherheggs451 Will Smith won a Grammy before fresh prince

There is only one person that fits your description in the comment section. All the other ones are just random opinions and comments.

they praised it in the beginning too. 20 minutes in all i hear is "good actor this and good actor that"

Yeah everyone is bashing the show, yet they didn't watch it, didn't finish the video, and are bashing the concept.

We know but we don't care.

I'll do it instead

@@kormanproductions8943 You know that needs to be on video, right?! 😆

He'll probably do it on this show after a line or two lol

@@ThePremiumChicken actually I have video. I did it at my best friends wedding 😅

They'll probably have him do it high on a table then he falls off and breaks a hip or something, leaving him immobilized in a wheelchair for the rest of the series..... Trauma Drama.

Well he was from North Carolina before he graduated college and went into law school

Good Analogy

Yes perfect comparisons.

Terrible comparison. Riverdale is off the wall insanity that has literally gone absolutely bonkers. It is more cartoony then an actual cartoon at this point. 😄😄

The show has had 3 episodes and we are already comparing it to the original? That's like if the made a reboot to Smart Guy and I said the original was better halfway through the first season. Like yeah no shit. Expectation vary by the person but I find it hard to believe that most people would think it could beat the original in the first place. And because its not even promoted as a sitcom I don't it was ever trying to be. I highly doubt the show was trying to run as half as long as the original.

Omg true! I loved Archie comics, noone warned me about Riverdale!!!

AJ we have a group of white trolls that only comment negatively about black movies and TV shows.

@@calm1047 not even white and I dislike the new show. It’s just boring to me 🤷🏿‍♂️

@@calm1047 my top 5 comedians/ actors are black my favorite movies ever literalky my top 10 are all black made this show is just fucking awful nothing to do w being black? Or I would’ve hated the og and every other black sitcom I watched every single night as a kid.

@@calm1047 why we gotta bring race into this could be some people just don’t like it ? Everyone’s free to have an opinion you know

If you want to be honest everyone i know thats a brother and remembers the og fresh prince all are saying the same thing this is one long special episode with the charm and humor ejected out of the show lets be real and call this what it really is its a fresh prince reboot into the oc that show has a character that was poor and adopted by a rich family . I watched the first episode and this straight up is all drama and this will acts like a punk most of the time .

SNL did it a couple weeks ago

Happy Days as well.

@@anubusx they could just tell _Happy Days_ from the perspective of black folks in the '50s🤭 and keep the name for sarcasm

@@EchoJ That would work.

There's a Key and Peele skit about that

How?

Don't insult the original like that, ever

It's literally made to stem away from the original

"fleshed out stories" thats it.

😂😂😂

I watched the episodes so far and to me the writing is lazy at some parts. And there's already a plot hole

@@raggadamuffin what's the plot hole?

I think this is a hard sell, not because it’s more ‘serious’. It’s because sitcoms and dramas have WAY different writing styles. Fans of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air know there was plenty serious in the show, even if it could have a good laugh. This new show ‘Bel Air’ being intentionally a drama series and not a sitcom on a serialized network the writing style is INHERENTLY different. Neither is real. Dramas over dramatize the drama, sitcoms undercut the drama and that’s how those writing forms work. It has nothing to do with a more to less serious meter. And so the comparison ball being kicked around is not only being juggled with new faces holding the old names. You are also seeing two entirely different formats that are stylized under completely different standards. And there’s gonna be some willing to give it it’s own space and others not so much.

@@TheDawnofVanlife I don't think the original series dealt with "plenty of serious issues" as much as you're saying it did. It really was something that occured maybe once or twice per season, which isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things. The original show was strictly a comedy, don't get it twisted.

@@thedefinitionisthis No it was a SITCOM not a comedy. SNL is a comedy. A sitcom is mostly slice of life Storytelling and all half-hour family based series were sitcoms back then, no matter how often they had gags or jokes. As far as how often it was ‘serious’, that depends on your measure of what compliments realism. Only focusing on high drama isn’t necessarily any more realistic then lighter tone slice of life style storytelling. I am not talking about ‘very special episodes’ like the gun episodes or being pulled over by the cops. Which were shockingly well handled in a show that could have avoided ever treading toward such topics. What Fresh Prince wasn’t was serialized. A big dramatic event in one episode had very little impact on the next episode. But EVERYTHING was written that way back then because of syndication replay value. So whatever you were doing had to live in a bottle episode. But as far as realism and serious moments it wasn’t just those ‘very special episodes’ that were the realism of the series. Little things, like the parents worrying about Will’s influence on Ashley are very realistic to taking in a child who’s been raised by other people later in their lives. Or Uncle Phil giving Will a good talking to about his expectations. Or Aunt Viv dealing with being older and not being able to keep up with younger women in a dance class (but faking it). Everything that’s ‘realistic’ isn’t necessarily some dark overly dramatized thing. Some things are just the conflicts of day to day living and some days have more ‘serious’ conflicts and hurdles then others.

@@TheDawnofVanlifeMost Sitcoms are still comedies

@@SuperMurray2009 No Sitcom is kinda a huge blanket term for half hour network programming. Like full house was a sitcom. Were there laughs and cute little funny things, yes, but it wasn’t a comedy. Moesha was a sitcom. Was the plot constantly about laughs…no. It was generally slice of life family situations. Some sitcoms were more heavy handed comedy (Martin) and others weren’t. Even Family Matters which attached itself rabidly to Steve Urkle who was a walking joke a lot of the time, spent most of it’s time on basic family situations and conflicts. Are there common running gags in many sitcoms, yes, kimmy gibbler was a walking running gag in full house for example. Jazz getting tossed out of out the house on Fresh Prince was a running gag. But many of these shows have full on episodes where that is maybe a one minute of the full episode that deals with a full range of slice of life stories that aren’t necessarily all haha funny. And even if they are amusing at times are not based on setting up a joke which is what makes a COMEDY different from a SITCOM.

It what way ?

It's not the remake we deserved but it's the remake we needed

Apparently you missed the Power train?

Facts smooth ass transition

Like when SNL did an Urkel version of this?

Ill take it. Sometimes there are serious matters at hand that can be explored.

@@SuperMurray2009 Fresh Prince of Bel Air handled a number of serious topics tho. Sometimes people think things are only real if you throw a dark veil over it. 80% of a good situation comedy (sitcom) is the situation and the comedy works because many of the situations were mostly believable family life. And it’s not like they skipped around the things like the racial issues and the privilege of Will’s cousins vs Will’s upbringing.

@@TheDawnofVanlife Yes but they did skip over a crucial element in the show. Which was what happened to Will before his transition to Bel Air. And why a decision like that could effect him long term. The tv show likely never tackled these issue for im guessing two reasons. One is likely it would be too dark of a tone to start off a sitcom with, and/or Two the concept was supposed to be a fish out of water story for Will living in a rich neighborhood while not being accustomed to it.

@@SuperMurray2009 I think it was mostly the second. Also, TV back then was ENTIRELY different. Sitcoms were the majority on TV unless it was a show like a law and order or CSI. All shows were based on a premise that could be easily carried from episode to episode. Even the catchy opening jingle is meant to set the stage for anyone jumping into any episode and being able to watch the episode without needing every episode that came before. And almost all TV existed in a ‘resolved in a half hour’ bible so that all you mostly needed was that premise to follow along. It was just the writing style of the time. And even within that fairly confined format Fresh Prince of Bel-Air still found a place to approach serious topics several times, including in the areas of racism and privilege. Shooting everything in a darker pallet in a more modern format doesn’t equal more real is all I am saying. Serialized programming now is just more common then episodic. And streaming has just made storytelling different. But that difference doesn’t make it any more or less serious just because the color pallet is less brightly colored. I am happy to give this a chance as it’s own thing, but I feel the fact that Fresh Prince was in a sitcom format with bright colors makes it less ‘real’ is overlooking the actual content which was impressive within such a constrained format.

40? What were u lookin at?

Because they're old 😂

40 nooo, not a teen…yes. But everyone in Riverdale looked like they belonged in college not High School when the show started….so that’s just modern TV. 🤣🤣

you put it out into the universe. dont be mad when it happens lol. but that is easier to make since he is a cat eating alien. evil aliens arent new and neither is the fear of the other

Remind me of that thing in Solar Opposites (Mr Fun Bucket episode) 🤣

Different world might be lit

I hope it is because I didn’t get a chance to watch the original.

Let's take In Living Color take the comedy out of it and make it into a Christopher Nolan movie LOL

Exactly!😑🤦🏽‍♀️

From the mind of Jordan Peele: *URKEL* "Did he do that?"

@@TanisC This is not true. People were all hype when they did that 2 minute clip. It went viral. That's how Will Smith heard about it and picked it up.

@@antwanjenkins6735 i mean.... a Nolan version of Homey The Clown does sound intriguing...

It didn’t they got early access

It debuts on the 13th

People absolutely asked for this after seeing the original concept trailer.

I definitely asked for this it was huge when the fan made trailer came out a couple years back

i didnt ask for this and i never wouldve wanted to see fresh prince become just another soap opera the og show had a balance between being fun and serious

@@jayb235 Who cares youre one person the majority of the people who saw it did and the target audience is loving it.

Just watch the original than.

Perfectly honest I felt the fan trailer did that. Sure there were more serious moments but he met jazz, he had basketball, there were lighter moments. Nothing in the actual series I've seen gave those vibes.

This show has its lighter and funny moments.

What exactly is an Atlanta Style comedy?