it's kind of funny we were so starved for content back then that we have nostalgia for this mid show
I don’t think that’s the right angle
I actually think that back then, we were are the point where the amount of content was abundant but balanced (we didn’t have streamers, but the networks and cable channels put out a lot of stuff) so there was enough stuff that a show like this, which was indeed mid, actually felt relevant to a sub section of people.
The fact that this show ended, and pretty much since then a show like this hasn’t happened again, even though there’s a billion hours of new content, is an indictment on the flatness of the current landscape.
The promise of streaming was “we’ll make a little bit of everything for everybody, come on in!” but the reality of streaming has become “here’s 1,000 hours of expensive looking but generic mass targeted stuff, shut up and take it.”
Look at HBO for example - they used to have a major hourlong show on a Sunday year round. One show would end, and two Sunday’s later, the next series would start in that time slot. But now, one major Sunday HBO show ends its season, and it takes maybe 6-8 months for the next big Sunday show to recommence.
So yes, HTMIIA was mid, but the nostalgia for it actually speaks to the fact that we’re starved for content
now, not back then. The response to a possible reunion of this show should be “why? We have XYZ and ABC that gives me that feeling” not “yo I hope these guys in their 40s can run it back!”
Just my take. Besides I don’t think it’s coming back I think they’re just friends and doing photoshoots and nostalgia photo ops to see if there’s buzz.
