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Writing this as a die hard fan from 1991 after stumbling onto Comedy Central during the MST3K Turkey Day marathon. Within minutes I started recording the show and never stopped. From 1997 until the early 2000s I ran an MST3K tape trading site during the VHS days. Because of this I had probably watched every episode 100's of times while dubbing copies. Yes this is pre-digital where you had one VCR playing the tape and another recording it.

On to the review.

I binged the entire first season and really enjoyed it. Jonah is very solid, he delivers lines very subtly and well timed like Mike Nelson and Joel Hodgson did. He never overwhelms the movie so you can follow along and rarely has bad quips.

The intro sequence is awesome which is a fresh redo of the original intro where Joel created a lot of the models used. This intro has some very slick models too with neat stop motion.

They were definitely inspired by the Joel Hodgson years and mimicked a lot of what we saw back from S1-5 of the original series. The invention exchange is back and the Mads really target Patton Oswald = Frank Conniff but Felicia Day is a hybrid of Trace and Mary Joe. I think they really had a great thing going for the first two seasons.

Season 3 is a mess. Netflix dropped the show after Season 2 but after a 6.5Million Kickstarter they self produced season three with 13 episodes. This is around a 500K budget per episode but Unfortunately it doesn't show.

• two bad green screen sets, one for the mads and one for the SoL.

• The intro is basically a PowerPoint presentation.

• Crow alternates between the original Hampton Yount and a female who I assume is the new co-host Emily Marsh or the Gypsy voice.

As for the new host, not good at all. Jonah was great out of the gate and I saw interviews with him and Joel and he really knows the show.

Emily just doesn't deliver. I just finished watching s03E13 Christmas Dragon and wow what a mess. They brought Joel back who is always great but the Emily segments are flat.

There won't be a season 4 I am quite sure. RIP MST3k.

This show has been going downhill for five-ish years but in the last few months it has become a globalist advertisement.

I hate to sound like one of those people but this has become so obvious. Just in the last week let me point out a few subtle things that have been in the dialog.

• (late october) during a charity clothing sale Paul was deciding on buying a heavy jumper when Asha said it will be better than using the heater in the winter. Now I will be attacked for saying this but really! Utility prices are doubling, tripling, +++ and Corrie subtly addresses/minimizes this with a weak alternative planted into the masses and ignoring the failing of the responsible.

• Hum the verdict is still out on this storyline, the new comer kid who it may easily be speculated is a refugee comes across as the nicest and likable kid on the show. Sounds good to me however it is going to be the show's positive allegory on growing migration issue in Europe and the rest of the world for that matter. At this point the kid has only appeared in one scene but I would bet the farm this will play out to promote only the positives of new comers and none of the bad. Be prepared for some gaslighting where the typical priv'd viewer will be subtly guilted.

• Peter is now becoming a protester and is promoting the virtues. Great, guess we will see Toya, Peter, and Spider throwing paint on artwork or blocking M6

Positives!

I love most of the characters and the foundation of the show and it's stories. It plods on with following the banalities of peoples lives on the street. This is what this show has always done and continues to do well.

New characters are constantly cycled in, many are bad and some are good. The young characters are pretty good and the rest are fine too. This gives me hope but the problem is the writers and their marching orders.

My money is on bug food slipped into a future storyline. Barf.

I am shocked to see this low rating. I remember seeing this as a kid and loved the high paced mystery with plenty of San Francisco city scenes.

The comedy was Mel Brook like but the movie had a big task! It had to pull off a murder mystery and a comedy and a script that tried to back story so many characters. I think it handled this just fine.

This is a traditional murder mystery mixed with comedy. The cast is so deep with talent I thought it was great. I liked how they tried to build them all a unique persona which worked but there just wasn't time for follow through.

The ending was great and showed how much went into the twisty story.

4.0 out of 10??? Just cant see how people didn't see more in this fun little flick.