Remaking a beloved sitcom can be a disaster. ‘Reboot’ spins it into comedy gold
LA TimesCorny jokes and smart humor battle it out in “Reboot,” a half-hour comedy about a millennial writer’s effort to revamp an early 2000s family sitcom for a new generation of viewers. Created by Steven Levitan, who serves as an executive producer alongside Danielle Stokdyk and Jeff Morton, “Reboot” is a fun, clever and self-deprecating sendup of an unimaginative, reboot-obsessed television industry, mining rich material from the generation gap between old-school boomer humor and fussy cancel culture. Keegan-Michael Key in “Reboot.” But when the show’s original creator, Gordon, inserts himself back into the fold as a showrunner, Hannah’s plans for a modern makeover are challenged by his old-timey sitcom sensibilities. The generation gap is highlighted in Gordon’s one word challenge to identify an inherently “funny food.” The millennial picks oatmeal.
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