The "Fuller House" boss says he thinks "vicious" reviews of the show are "good luck"

Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin & Andrea Barber Talk Fuller House

The second season of "Fuller House" debuts Friday, December 9 on Netflix. Netflix

Netflix"s "Fuller House" was far from a critical favorite when the spin-off premiered last year, but it"s nothing the show"s creator hasn"t dealt with before.

"I kind of look at bad reviews as good luck for us," executive producer Jeff Franklin recently told Business Insider. "When Full House came on the air, the reviews were pretty vicious, as well. I think we got an "F" from People magazine and 30 years later were on the cover. The reviews for Fuller House I would say were even more vicious than the ones we got for Full House, but our fans dont really care. This is not a show that depends on good reviews for people to watch it."

Franklin has a very good point. Though Netflix doesn"t report its viewing statistics, that hasn"t stopped independent research companies from trying to break the code for the streaming company"s ratings. SymphonyAM, for example, reported that "Fuller House" is the highest-rated show on Netflix.

"What was great is that I know people didnt watch just one episode just to see what it was and then tune out," Franklin said. "We know that most of the fans that came to the show watched all 13 episodes. And they not only watched them once, they watched them several times. So I think the show has been extremely well-received. If these independent research numbers are to be believed, and theres no reason for me not to believe them, its not only the No. 1 show on Netflix, but its the most-watched show on television."

For the record, Netflix has called SymphonyAM"s findings inaccurate. Franklin said Netflix hasn"t given him any viewership numbers at all, but that"s not due to a lack of trying on his part.

"Ive asked the executives on our show, Look, if these numbers are right, just blink once and well never have this conversation again. I try to get it out of them but they are not budging," Franklin told us. "Theyve never acknowledged any of this success. They just say, "Hey, you guys got picked up again. Youre gonna do more shows and youre doing great." Thats about all I get from Netflix."

Despite the drawback of not knowing the viewership data around his show, Franklin is willing to respect Netflix"s business model. He believes that being on Netflix has made the show "cooler than it really is."

"They dont want their creative partners knowing exactly whats going on, but theyve been wonderful to us," he said. "Im thrilled to be at Netflix. If we were on Nick at Nite or ABC, I dont think wed have the same kind of cach and the pop-culture appeal that we have because were on Netflix."

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/fuller-house-creator-weighs-in-on-shows-bad-reviews-2016-12

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Weekend streaming: "Fuller House" is back for season 2

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"Fuller House" is back, but who will win over the tribunal of Danny, Jesse and Joey? Probably everyone.

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Fuller House Series-Premiere Recap: Cut Them Out

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Lets just get this out of the way right now: I love Kimmy Gibbler. She is obviously in the Joey role in this reboot of the series and Joey was always the worst. In fact, Joey is still the worst, with his comic pajamas and his frightening beaver puppet that terrifies small children. (We also know from some Alanis Morissette songs that he frightened her with his beaver work as well.) Kimmy Gibbler is no Joey. She is so much better than Joey. She is a weird freak no one wants to hang out with who somehow became a successful small-business owner and mother who is desired by an incredibly handsome Latino man and apparently has enough of a history that she was a bit of a catch. G*d, I love Kimmy Gibbler: She just shows up, says something kind of stupid or ridiculous, and goes back to whatever it is she was doing. I wish we all had a little Kimmy Gibbler inside of us just like Mr. Beaver has a bit of Joey inside of him.

Before we get to all that, we should probably update everyone on the Tanner clan. Eldest daughter D.J. is a vet (animal doctor not Iraq War fighter) living in her childhood home with her father, Danny, and her three sons, Jackson, Max, and Tommy, after her husband died while fighting fires a year ago. Stephanie Tanner just returned from living in London and has a career as a successful DJ named DJ Tanner, which is sort of my favorite joke in the whole d**n episode. Well, either that one or when everyone turned to the camera and said that youngest daughter Michelle couldnt return to San Francisco because she was busy running her fashion empire in New York.

Uncle Jesse and Aunt Becky still live in San Francisco, but Becky and Jesse are moving to L.A. with Danny so that Danny and Becky can have their own version of Live With Regis and Kathie Lee but probably with less shouting and more cardigans (though Lori Loughlindoes look remarkably like Kathie Lee Gifford now that I think about it). Their sons, Nicky and Alex, are in college in L.A. where they major in surfing and saying their lines in tandem, which is apparently a skill for which one needs an advanced degree. Also D.J.s old boyfriend, Steve, still lives in the old neighborhood and he wants to be D.J.s new Rice-A-Roni, her San Francisco treat.

Is that everyone? Yup, it sure is. Can we just pause for a moment and relish how true it is when Uncle Jesse says how good everyone looks. Its a miracle that everyone on this cast grew up to be so attractive and ready to be back on a sitcom, especially the child stars. So many of them grow up to be strange-looking and awkward adults, but no one here. Aside from the fact that I will never get over that Stephanie is taller than D.J., everyone here is just as fine-looking as they were back in the day. Especially Alex and Nicky, whom I dream of in the parking lot of some beach on the West Coast changing out of their board shorts under a towel. Have mercy.

The episode centers around the going-away party for Becky and Danny, which Kimmy Gibbler throws because she is now an event planner. By all accounts it is sort of a sad party. All she had to do was set up Stephanies sound system in the living room, put out some crudit platters from Safeway, and then invite everyone who has ever been on the show and Jesses band, the Rippers. There are literally no other guests at this party.

Kimmys ex-husband, Fernando, doing his best Wilmer Valderrama from That "70s Show, crashes the party to drop off Ramona, Kimmys daughter, who has beef with D.J.s oldest, Jackson, mostly because he seems like a no-good jerk who orders around his clean-freak younger brother Max. My second-favorite joke of the episode was when D.J. answered the door and told Fernando, This is a going-away party, so go away. Leave it to a mom to tell us a great dad joke.

From Fernando we learn that Kimmy has unlocked the secrets of the Kama Sutra, which I dont find too unreasonable. Its like she spent all of her dorky years at college learning which of Cosmos s*x tips actually work and which are ridiculous nonsense, like putting a doughnut around a guys member and then eating it off, which does sound appetizing because of the doughnut but just seems sticky and gross because of everything else.

The party was sweet and a good way to introduce us to lots of the old jokes we loved about the show. Everyone got a chance to use his or her catch phrase (How rude! etc.) and it was nice, like a class reunion you actually want to attend. Like a class reunion, there were also some cringey moments, like the choreographed dance number to New Kids on the Blocks The Right Stuff and, even worse, Uncle Jesse singing his hit song Forever. It wouldnt have been that bad if the singing voices werent so poorly dubbed that it made Milli Vanilli roll over in their graves.

After the party, when everyone is about to take off, D.J. is feeling overwhelmed because she has to get the kids to school, find a new house, and give the baby his ear drops. Then Steve shows up with Comet Jr. Jr. who is about to give birth, because that is a thing you do when your dog is in labor wrap it in a blanket and bring it over to your ex-girlfriends house. (Actually the correct procedure is to set up a webcam to start documenting the puppies lives as soon as possible and broadcasting it to the world.)

D.J. does it all, including supervising the birth of a brood of puppies that were so fake they made the vocals to Forever sound real, but shes overwhelmed and everyone overhears her through the baby monitor talking about how hard her job is. At first her dad offers to stay behind. But then Stephanie and Kimmy step up. Theyll move into the house and theyll raise their brood the same way that Danny, Joey, and Jesse raised Dannys daughters. To show this continuity, they even reenact a moment from the pilot where the group quiets a crying baby by singing the theme song to the Flintstones.

It was all nice and wonderful, but the nicest thing that happened in the whole episode was that Danny gave the house to D.J. and Stephanie. Do you know how much an entire townhouse in San Francisco is worth these days? Thats like a $40 million nest egg theyre sitting on. Why dont they just sell the d**n thing and all move to Hawaii and hire like 19 nannies to take care of all of those kids? That seems like a much better plan to me, but then, well, we wouldnt have a show.

Source: http://www.vulture.com/2016/02/fuller-house-recap-season-1-episode-1.html

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Review: "Fuller House" Is a March Down Memory Lane

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Photo John Stamos and Jodie Sweetin in Fuller House, on Netflix. Credit Saeed Adyani/Netflix

Netflixs Fuller House is not good, but thats arguably the best thing the show has going for it. To make a Full House sequel good less formulaic, more innovative would be like baking an artisanal, organic Hostess CupCake: You could do it, it might be delicious, but it would be a betrayal of the product. This is, after all, a franchise whose theme song begins, Whatever happened to predictability?

What Netflix instead promised, with the debut of the 13-episode season Friday, is a memory: the experience of once more ripping open the plastic wrapper, sinking your teeth into squishy cake and feeling the rush of sugar, chemicals and whipped air.

The first bite is sweet and familiar. The second, a little cloying. The third, the fourth something is off. Maybe the recipe has changed, or you have. Fuller House begins as a sitcom family reunion. It becomes a self-conscious, dated and maudlin reminder of the ceaseless march of time and your inevitable demise.

When it aired from 1987 to 1995 on ABC, Full House was already a nostalgia show. It was a safe haven of group hugs and catchphrases in the era of Married With Children. The widower Danny Tanner (Bob Saget) raised three adorable daughters with his cool brother-in-law and zany best friend. (The widower device was itself a throwback to 60s sitcoms, which constantly sacrificed past spouses on the altar of cute family comedy).

The aged-up Fuller House brings back not only the original characters (and its creator Jeff Franklin) but also the premise, gender-flipped. Now its Dannys eldest daughter, D. J. (Candace Cameron-Bure), raising three sons in the same house, after the death of her husband, a firefighter. (Her married name, yes, is Tanner-Fuller.)

The premiere is a 35-minute frog-march down memory lane. The studio audience goes wild when John Stamos and Lori Loughlin take the stage and Dave Coulier dusts off his catchphrase Cutitout! Not returning are Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen; when someone mentions Michelle (the youngest sister, whom they played together), the cast turns and glares through the fourth wall.

Mr. Stamos reprises Forever, his characters wedding song. The theme song returns, twice: once in original form, once belted by Carly Rae Jepsen over footage of the characters today and a generation ago. The same split-screen device returns at the episodes end, which recreates a scene from the original series. Its not so much a pilot as a premature In Memoriam reel.

But the episode also has to set up a series, as the older characters shuffle off and the middle sister, Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin), and wacky neighbor Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber) move in to help D. J. Kimmy has a sassy daughter (Soni Nicole Bringas) and an ex-husband (Juan Pablo Di Pace), an excruciating Latin-lover caricature who still pines for Kimberlina, mi amor. (Ms. Barber herself is a bright spot, playing Kimmy big and to the cheap seats.) D. J.s middle son, Max (Elias Harger), has his own catchphrase Holy chalupas! and the show works so hard to cutesify him that at one point it actually buries him in puppies.

Of course, what Fuller House is like on its own is beside the point; it matters only in reference to the original. This reboot see also The X-Files and the coming Gilmore Girls is the ultimate product of our nostalgia culture, the perpetual virtual high school reunion of Throwback Thursdays and Things Only a 90s Kid Would Know listicles.

So your personal experience of Fuller House will depend on how it interacts with your memories. If you loved Full House, I can no more review this experience for you than I could your first kiss (a little sloppy) or your grandmothers cookies (raisins, really?).

But youll have to adjust to the major change to Fuller House: its shiny new coat of cringe-making innuendo. Do you want to know that Kimmy Gibbler is now an expert in the ways of the Kama Sutra? Forget I said anything, then. An online-dating-mistaken-identity plot, in which D. J. invites in a man who she thinks is a plumber but who thinks hes there for a booty call, might be awkward for grown fans watching with their kids. Or without them.

Then again, its not entirely clear who the audience is meant to be for the new Fuller House. Are grown-up fans watching with their kids? Or binge-watching after theyve tucked them in, exhausted and mourning their spent youth?

Either way, Im not sure that Fuller House has more to offer them than the novelty of its reunion-pilot. The good news is, contrary to nostalgias things-were-better-back-then plaint, TV in 2016 already has plenty of more-inventive, less-generic broadcast family sitcoms: black-ish, Fresh Off the Boat and Bobs Burgers, to name a few. Whatever happened to predictability? Its having a hard time these days. The rest of us are much better off for it.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/arts/television/fuller-house-netflix-review.html

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