Golden Girls' Shock Revival Could Bring Back A Bizarre TV Trend
The Golden Girls’ future is in the past, mirroring one of TV’s most bizarre trends with a shocking revival hoping to bring Blanche, Dorothy, Sophia, and Rose back to the small screen. Originally airing in 1985, the beloved senior citizen sitcom brought comedy, drama, and groundbreaking television that continues to entertain throughout the ages. However, with a five-minute pilot, a new series plans to take The Golden Girls into the future as an homage to a forgotten era of television.
With titles like Tuca & Bertie, Inside Job, and Bojack Horseman under his belt, the versatile Mike Hollingsworth is back with another sequel to The Golden Girls. Using clips of the original cast, and described as a passion project, the pilot (released via IndieWire) imagines a future in which Susan Harris’s characters are still alive thanks to the fountain of youth. Filled with aliens, robots, and Hollingsworth’s brand of dark comedy, Golden Girls 3033 went viral on social media with grand hopes it’ll be the beginning of a far-out animated adventure.
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Although drawing comparisons to animated sitcoms like The Jetsons and The Flintstones, Golden Girls 3033’s allusions are more obscure. Hollingsworth’s pilot appears to be a tribute to 1974’s Partridge Family 2200 A.D. and a lost age of odd animation choices that adapted popular live-action sitcoms as Saturday morning cartoons. As wild and seemingly farfetched as the Partridges in the 23rd century, surprisingly, Golden Girls 3033 (which joins the many shows set in the Golden Girls universe) could be a harbinger of a nostalgic future in which animated sitcom adaptations once again seek out success with a whole new
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