BelAir Season 2 struggles in many ways, including the inconsistent treatment of Carlton's character. Our review:
Though there is no shortage of remakes that fail to capture the spark of the original work, there are none that are quite like Bel-Air. Drawing from the broad narrative beats of the 90s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, though without any of its charm or wit, the first season increasingly bordered on being a parody of itself.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Season 2 picks up two weeks after the events of last season, which culminated in Will packing his bags and leaving the mansion to go out on his own. It isn’t a spoiler to say that this separation is not permanent, as Will is still in touch with most of the Banks family save for Uncle Phil , with whom he remains frustrated.
That is where the tension at the heart of Bel-Air becomes most apparent. At times, it is a sitcom in a structural sense, with each character going through their own subplots. Lost from this are all the jokes that made the original alive and joyous. The way this is all shot conveys that it is meant to be very serious stuff even as it is often visually flat. The bigger problem is that it is hard to take Bel-Air as seriously as it clearly wants to be taken.
There are the decisions facing Will that could be compelling, as he finds himself at a crossroads in his life, but there isn’t a strong foundation underpinning it all. Uncle Phil, whose warmth was a central part of the sitcom, feels cold here. He brings in his own separate storylines, but this only ensures that there is an emotional distance that is hard to shake.
If anything, Season 2 is playing everything a bit safer this time. While much of the first season didn’t work, at least it was taking some bigger swings. The echoes of that continue to be felt here, but they now ring even more hollow. Though the latter half of the season is being set up as containing some more significant narrative elements to build around, they are telegraphed in cliffhanger teases at the end of episodes that are more tiresome than anything.
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