When it was announced that Fuller House was being brought to Netflix, I was equally excited to see the story of the Tanner family continue, while also modernizing this sitcom. What I got was (for better and worst) was exactly that.
If you're a fan of
Full House you will enjoy the winks, nods, cameos, and symmetry here. Classic lines are spurted, and the show offers a situation literally echoing the original seires. Donna Jo (otherwise known as DJ) is recently widowed and has three boys. She's joined by her sister Steph, and best friend Kimmy Gibbler as the three awkwardly raise three boys while learning life lessons.
If you're not a fan of
Full House or the sitcom formula, there's probably not much here for you. This is a sitcom and all the tropes have been dragged along. What always seperated
Full House was how simple it was, while handling larger issues. In this sense,
Fuller House is the same thing. DJ is handling becoming recently widowed, Steph is handing a few issues (including infertility), and Kimmy Gibbler is dealing with just being Kimmy Gibbler.
While it's a sitcom, the main plot of the season was that of DJ's love life. She is locked in a three-(wo)man 'will they, won't they' between DJ and Steve, her high school sweetheart, and Matt, a coworker. I really liked Steve on the original show, and I figured the show would give Steve and DJ material; but throwing Matt in wasn't neccesary, it was there to create drama; which the original show wasn't really about. Sure there were scuffles and disagreements; but this was half of a season of this.
When this dynamic is resolved; it was an underwhelming end to the season. It's left open for the show to resolve the dynamic in later seasons, but I wouldn't be too happy to see it continue.
Aside from the main plot thread, everything else is solid. There's a lot of fun gags, and it's genuinely a pleasure to watch many of these characters return.
I give Season 1 of
Fuller House..
800 Uncle Joeys out of 1,000