Key Points
PREMIUM (Clockwise from left) Where Wednesday is an evocative take on a classic, That 90s Show is a lethargic attempt to invoke the popular original..
And Clone High (2002-03), an animated sci-fi teen drama based on the high-school lives of genetic clones of historical figures, will return, with some of the original characters (which included Joan of Arc, Cleopatra, Abraham Lincoln) and new ones such as Confucius, Christopher Columbus and Frida Kahlo...
But the animated show (launched in January, with Mindy Kaling as Velmas voice, and as executive producer) is poorly scripted, full of dull monologues, and worst of all, the treatment of this character plays into unhealthy stereotypes of the sad, self-conscious brown girl, with jokes about her weight and hairy gorilla arms going unquestioned..
Her episodes of time-travel included interactions with real-world long-gone legends, as they all have, but in her five years in the role, and in subsequent seasons, more women were added to this list, including computer programmer Ada Lovelace, and a hint of queer romance between her and a Pakistani policewoman named Yasmin Khan...
Power politics: Bel-Air, the gritty 2022 retelling of the popular comedy Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-96), charges stridently into issues of racial discrimination, building on an original that touched rather more gently upon issues of identity and class privilege..
