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Sep 20, 2022 · Growing Pains: Directed by Jaffar Mahmood. With Keegan-Michael Key, Johnny Knoxville, Rachel Bloom, Calum Worthy. Bree and Reed struggle to get through an intimate scene on camera. Hannah and Gordon each hire their own writers, causing paralysis in the writers room.
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Sep 20, 2022 · This recap of the Hulu series Reboot season 1, episode 3, “Growing Pains,” contains spoilers. In Episode 2 , Clay and Zack’s mother Susan began a rather saucy fling together. “Growing Pains” quickly addresses the consequences of this hook up, with Zack confronting Clay on set the next day.
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Dec 19, 2019 · — Kirk Cameron on a 'Growing Pains' reboot. Just because he's hosting a talk show doesn't mean Cameron's done with acting, however. Cameron reunited with his "Growing Pains" cast in 2004...
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Sep 22, 2022 · 22 September 2022 by Ally Ham. Reboot | Official Trailer | Hulu. Watch on. Growing Pains. In episode 3 of Reboot Season 1, Hannah introduces Gordon to the writers she hired for the show before he came onto the scene: Janae, Benny, and Azmina. They’re a young, diverse group–and Gordon doesn’t understand them or their sense of humour at all.
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Updated: Sep 24, 2022 3:40 am
Posted: Sep 20, 2022 4:10 pm
Reboot premieres with three episodes this Tuesday, Sept. 20 on Hulu.
Reboot may be super late to the game when it comes to meta-skewering Hollywood but its winning ensemble and cracking wit help it stand out as one of the better forays into this realm. It's clever, surprising, and manages to juggle a few disparate tones quite well. It's both adult and cartoonish at the same time, making for a good-natured takedown of the streaming wars/reboot game.
Comedy guru Steven Levitan (Modern Family, The Critic, The Larry Sanders Show) brings together a mix of humor, heart, and vulgarity here, taking a swipe at the TV business in the midst of the rise of streaming giants and how research data and viewing metrics drive projects, casting, and just about everything else that winds up on screen. Reboot is just mean enough without tipping over the edge. It presents flawed characters but not ones who push you out of investing. It doesn't break the rules, it bends them. And its cast -- including Judy Greer, Keegan-Michael Key, Johnny Knoxville, Rachel Bloom, Paul Reiser, Krista Marie Yu, and Calum Worthy -- is exceptional.
The returning actors, now almost two decades out from their hit show, serve as the rest of the meal, with Key's Reed being the self-important "actor" in the group, Knoxville's Clay being the derelict standup comic, and Greer's Bree as the actress in her 40s paranoid about her age. Granted, these all feel like stock characters on paper. But Reboot practices elevated cliche use, allowing these three to evolve into way more than respective their "where are they now?" gags. They're all given wonderful stories, with Reed and Bree's former on-and-off-again set romance being a big focus. Each of them are given hangups and weaknesses that contain hidden gifts as Reboot is way more than a one-gag series.
The first episode, "Step Right Up" (each one is given a sitcom for a title, including this faux one), focuses on the set up and getting the original actors back in play... only for them to find out Gordon's also back and the edginess Reed was excited about is in danger of being hugely compromised by traditional sitcom humor. The second episode, "New Girl," involves Hulu stunt-casting a reality star (Alyah Chanelle Scott's Timberly) as a new series lead, but, in keeping with the M.O. of the show, no one is wasted here for the sake of one laugh. Everything builds and gets more complex -- and funnier. There are some truly cackle-worthy moments.
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The third installment, "Growing Pains," finds the show trying to establish a groove despite a writers room at odds over what constitutes a joke. By this point, as a viewer, you'll have learned that no one is as bad as they first appeared and that the righteous have imperfections and the supposed villains have the capacity to grow. Reboot has the perfect amount of cynicism for the business. Meta-lampoonings about the biz often go too far with nastiness and it ultimately hurts the laughs. Here, what we get are people working out their lives through the (sometimes begrudging) creation of a sitcom and, in turn, having said lives follow some of the patterns of a sitcom. Reboot, as its name even suggest, doesn't reinvent the wheel but it does weave very funny tale.
The meta-sassiness of Reboot is old hat at this point but the show's sharp writing, hilarious performances, and deceptively deep characters make for one of the better shows-about-show business in a while. The streaming era opened up a new doorway into this winking, deprecating dimension of Hollywood self-slandering and Reboot does a joyful job of b...
"Growing Pains" is the third episode of Reboot. To Clay's dismay, Zack is delighted that Clay hooked up with Zack's mother Susan, but discourages him from breaking it off with her because Susan once got violent. Fearing aging, Bree is dismayed that her stylist has provided Spanx, and accepts Timberly's offer of a girl's night out.
Sep 23, 2022 · To its credit, Reboot tries to do a lot in its first hour, a reckless ambition “Growing Pains” has to contend with – and as the episode slowly starts to blends these various elements together, begins to reveal a comedy a bit more challenging (and warmer) than anyone could’ve expected.
