That 90s Show Will Need To Do One Thing To Succeed

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For better or for worse, it's the age of reboots and spinoffs, especially those that come from classic, nostalgic shows and movies. Many popular sitcoms from the golden age in the 90s and early 2000s (like Saved by the Bell and How I Met Your Mother) have been getting rebooted recently, or had some sort of reunion special à la Friends. They've been released to varying degrees of success, and it seems like this is going to continue to be the trend for the foreseeable future. It makes sense; people loved these shows for a reason, and that original fanbase is usually more than willing to tune in for a new installment.

That 70s Show, the classic sitcom about a group of teenagers living in Wisconsin in the late 1970s, has recently been rebooted with an unknown release date on Netflix. The story is going to follow Leia Forman, the daughter of Eric and Donna, as she lives with her grandparents in Point Place in the 1990s and makes new friends there. This new show has a lot to live up to in terms of legacy, especially because the final season of That 70s Show was so widely disliked. The reboot is a chance for the show to redeem itself, so what exactly does That 90s Show need to do to be a good show on its own merits and succeed where its predecessor failed?

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Season 8 of That 70s Show was an unfortunate way to end a show that had been strong pretty much the whole way through. For starters, the main character Eric Forman was missing from most of the season (as actor Topher Grace had other filming commitments), which left this weird, empty hole in the show. Eric was really the heart of the story, and without him there, the show felt directionless and as though the group was