re: Rewatching the Wonder Years

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It was largely a comedy. Hitting the audience with 2 downers to end a comedy series…not enjoyable.

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I'd argue more drama than comedy. But IMO them not ending up together was one of the best things about the finale. Because it was totally realistic and taught a very valuable lesson to kids that your first love is not the person you are gonna end with forever. The show was all about life lessons, and that was one of the best (and most important).

Sure, Jack being dead was a bit of a gut punch. But not shocking really since it was an update from several decades later.

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That was sad but really not unexpected.

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I'd argue more drama than comedy.

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Definitely a dramedy, but I agree - not fairly described as a "comedy".

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Sure, Jack being dead was a bit of a gut punch. But not shocking really since it was an update from several decades later.

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The narrator's perspective is exactly 20 years later (but I guess maybe as few as 15?). I think it was pretty shocking that he died at 45 or whatever. It's particularly devastating when viewed through the lens of the very end of the "Who's Aunt Rose" episode from just a year or two earlier.

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quote:Sure, Jack being dead was a bit of a gut punch. But not shocking really since it was an update from several decades later.

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It sucked hearing that he died but he was a workaholic with ptsd from war, so not entirely unrealistic. But still, i wish they could have pushed it to 10 years down the road or something and not two years after the show ended.

It always annoyed me that Winnie, a middle class rube from suburbia circa 1973, went to “art school in Paris” and that Kevin was apparently married with a kid as a college freshman.

At least Wayne got a happy ending.