>>121230924>before episode 4 the series was sort of boring,You could see this opinion all over the internet. A bunch of people just couldn't handle seeing familiar character in an unfamiliar setting - they didn't watch the old sitcoms, so they couldn't give enough of a fuck to even notice all the lore and backstory getting dropped. I only have the barest understanding of any of the references, but I could understand that they WERE references, like the split couples beds thing, and seeing that was interesting.
This sort of "it's not the present, so I don't fucking care; give me some Real Housewives!" tendency is why we're condemned to rhyme with history.