Is 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' Revival Worth the Wait?
by EG
It’s about a week until the eleventh season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 — featuring the first new episodes since 1999 — but for the thousands of fans who pledge nearly $6 million on Kickstarter to make it happen, the premiere episode was available today for streaming.
In accordance with the creators, who hope fans will go in relatively fresh and haven’t even yet revealed the names of the movies being riffed, our review of the MST3K premiere will be spoiler-free.
The cult-favorite series — which centers on a blue-collar worker and two snarky robots forced by mad scientists to watch terrible movies in outer space — returns to a world of comedy shaped by its original run. When it first came into being in 1988, nobody had ever seen anything quite like it: series creator Joel Hodgson and his two robot friends would make fun of the movies in order to retain their sanity in the face of a cruel experiment designed to drive them mad.
Like some of Netflix’s previous revivals, Mystery Science Theater 3000 exists on a tightrope of expectations: will it be too much like the classic MST3K? Will it be too different? And after 15 years of internet fandom mourning the loss of the long-running, low-budget comedy, will those fans turn out in support of, or be turned off by, the new take?
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