This show has a difficult job which is competing against the ghost of a movie people have replayed over and over for more than 40 years. HOTW 1 is one of my all time fav comedies.
Its hard to review this as if you just saw the original yesterday and many of the negative reviews are almost like comparing a new Mona Lisa 2.0 to the original, basically impossible to fairly do.
That said this really is a funny show totally in the vein of the original. I got lots of laughs out of it in a very similar way to when I first watched the original.
The only gripe is they seem to have avoided the sexy side of the old comedy and some other subjects that might have exposed them to the hyperactive cancel culture of today. Mel Brooks works like HOTW and Blazing Saddles couldn't really be made today.
While there are all sorts of subjects they clearly couldn't touch this really is funny and in the same style as the original.
Its hard to review this as if you just saw the original yesterday and many of the negative reviews are almost like comparing a new Mona Lisa 2.0 to the original, basically impossible to fairly do.
That said this really is a funny show totally in the vein of the original. I got lots of laughs out of it in a very similar way to when I first watched the original.
The only gripe is they seem to have avoided the sexy side of the old comedy and some other subjects that might have exposed them to the hyperactive cancel culture of today. Mel Brooks works like HOTW and Blazing Saddles couldn't really be made today.
While there are all sorts of subjects they clearly couldn't touch this really is funny and in the same style as the original.