The TV Reboot Gods aren’t merciful, as a rule. Scent even the slightest trace of weak spot within the television-viewing public—some tiny hint of doubtless monetizable nostalgia—and so they’ll fly like very massive, very wealthy mosquitos, jamming their throbbing proboscis into the necks of their victims, extracting the fluids, after which regurgitating them as some new “revived!” TV present. We should observe, then, with gratitude and worry in our hearts, after they relent, as they’ve tonight: Amazon has spared us a Who’s The Boss? reboot.
That is per THR, which experiences that the collection, which had unique stars Tony Danza and Alyssa Milano hooked up, now gained’t go ahead at Amazon’s Freevee service. Thus had been all of us spared the haunting sounds of “Angela” carrying by way of the night time—Judith Mild had by no means been hooked up, presumably as a result of she’s been pleasantly busy over the previous couple of years—in addition to limitless reminders of that one episode of Neighborhood that Stephen Tobolowsky was in. The collection would have starred Milano as an grownup model of her character Samantha from the unique present, now a single mom dwelling in the identical home she grew up in. (And now we’re going to be sitting right here for the remainder of the night, questioning how she would have gotten possession of it; Tony and Angela, regardless of embarking on a romance within the remaining season, by no means married, however presumably this might have been coated in a pilot we’ll now by no means see.) (It’s doable this was additionally addressed in one of many 93 Who’s The Boss? items we discovered with a cursory search of fanfiction website A03, together with one which guarantees to be based mostly on “the lyrics of Taylor Swift.” The human thoughts is a fantastic factor.)
Who’s The Boss? wasn’t the one present Amazon un-ordered tonight; the streamer/international megacorp additionally revealed that it gained’t be shifting ahead with a Bosch spin-off targeted on the character performed by Jamie Hector; the present’s different spin-off, targeted on Maggie Q, remains to be technically within the works.
