First Look at the 'King of the Hill' Reboot Reunites Hank and the Gang

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• setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Seeing all of that “2020s stuff” in the poster is giving me really bad vibes. It gives me the same feeling as the Futurama cryptocurrency episode, where the commentary was late to the punch and delivered by writers either out of step with the subject or with the original show. I know KOTH was a premise about an old fashioned guy dealing with encroaching modern times, but it was written genuinely. This worries me that will just be people trying to aggressively recreate that by slapping the most bleeding edge topics into it.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    When the writers of the show are now those that grew up casually watching the original and just slap together half remembered high notes and memes

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• CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I can see my own mortality in Boomhauer’s face, I don’t like it.

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Love king of the hill. Gonna have to see whos got hulu

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Between Hardwick’s death and the bullshit that happened with excluding Jonathan Joss i’m very very not enthused about this.

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Oh god…Hank is going to be a trump supporter officially in canon now, isn’t he?

  Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck…

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    He’s not wearing a red hat. Thankfully neither is Dale.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I want to know how they’re going to handle Dale, since his voice actor died.

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    In the same way the original show intentionally avoided addressing 9/11, Iraq, or the Bush presidency I hope the revival has the sense to focus on the local lives of the characters instead of Trump.

    The closest the original ever got to specific high level politics was the episode with then Governor Bush where Hank was rattled by his handshake rather than any comment on policy by the show.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They also did a thing where Jimmy Carter reunited Hank and his dad while building a house.

      And Bill also dated a mayor. Although I’m unclear if that’s a fictional mayor, or a real mayor in Texas. So that one may or may not count…

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• kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Hard to imagine these characters existing today. The whole premise was that they lived in a backwards world but because they were good people who loved one another it all sort of works out.

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