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Various web sites report that 14 new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K for short) have been made available on the Netflix streaming service. Older episodes can also be seen on Netflix. Each is 90 minutes long, and has intermissions. During the show, fictional characters—including puppets—give humourous running commentary while a B movie is shown.
A trailer advertises the new episodes; another video advertisement shows MST3K's treatment of the beginning of an episode of Netflix's Stranger Things.
According to the show's official site, the new season is permitted to be seen in "the U.S., U.K., New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, and Canada."
Coverage:
Rotten Tomatoes
The Colorado Springs Gazette
comicbook.com
New York Times
Gizmodo
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @10:32PM
The jokes work a little more often but it's less spontaneous. Good and bad.
Tom Servo can fly now. I don't care, but they're going to remind you every episode. :/
My biggest complaint is the PC wash it got. It's not completely sterilized, but you *know* what would have happened back in the day if a man found blood on his hand after reaching down for something. But they still implied some ladies were sluts. I just don't see the point in making racy jokes if you're terrified of offending people. With any luck it will level off.
It's not like the show was ever sexist. It worked with what it had, and in their best episode they spent half of it making fun of Big McLargeHuge or whatever his name was, for being too much of a manly man.
Anyway, that characteristic wit is still there. They've done things to it, but it's unmistakable.
FWIW.