I feel like he portrayed Dewey perfectly even tho Dewey wasn’t fully around. It made total sense tho. I wish we got more episodes but I know Frankie said this was like a goodbye to Malcolm
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Any_Asparagus82671 day ago
+72
Idk feels like a set up for something more if the numbers do well.... At least I hope so.
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ColonelQuaraitch1 day ago
+22
A spin off about Francis and Piama being Middle-Age Parents and taking care of Leah while Malcolm is running for congress or something.
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FictionFantom1 day ago
+6
Piama is back? Definitely watching now.
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ColonelQuaraitch1 day ago
+8
Yeah, she and Francis did great.
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Old_mystic1 day ago
+31
It’s always that. “Frankie Muniz says HELLO again to Malcolm for a 10 million dollar payday!”
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clipclopping1 day ago
+28
Whatever, if he wants to get paid and people want to watch, it doesn’t hurt anything.
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Old_mystic1 day ago
+8
Absolutely, don’t hate the player…
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Klutzy_Smile_52851 day ago
+12
I guess you could say the script moved him....TO A BIGGER HOUSE
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Mentoman721 day ago
+3
He’s not getting 10 million dollars for playing Malcolm lol. I’d take more episodes anyway, the reboot was pretty good.
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dlbayyarea1 day ago
+1
This is what you call a reboot or a revival. Everything was f****** perfect. And I think some of their original crew members came back as well and I do like that Bryan and Jane were EP’s. I wish we got more episodes, but there’s like rumors going around that. This is like Frankie’s goodbye to Malcolm because he is super focused on his NASCAR career. I don’t know if it’s true or not but I have been watching a few of his interview, interviews promoting the show when he does bring that up a lot.
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dracovich1 day ago
+1
Dude is 40, I don't know shit about Nascar but surely you don't keep driving much after 40?
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dlbayyarea1 day ago
+1
He looks good for his age and idk tbh I never got into nascar haha. I was always more into baseball.
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dlbayyarea1 day ago
+2
Yeah, I don’t know. I just keep seeing rumors that Frankie is saying goodbye. It does look like he is super focused on his NASCAR career. I’ve seen a couple of his interview interviews recently and he does bring that up a lot. It would be cool if they do like a specific spinoff with someone in the family, but the original people and crew need to be involved like they were with this revival because it was perfect for me. I been reading comments that people don’t like that Malcolm’s friends were gay but in the original series it kind of gave hints that they were you know especially the classmates who had a weird fascination for him
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mormonbatman_1 day ago
+1
Its a set up for a show about the 6th kid and Malcolm's daughter having adventures.
The network is weighing it out right now.
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bjevans01202 days ago
+316
He did a great job. They used his character sparingly and who Dewey grew up to be fits perfectly with who he was as a kid. The whole show was great, I just wish it was twice as long.
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Hayterfan1 day ago
+57
Same, like it almost feels like the first half of a season.
But I'm just glad we got more, and if this is a goodbye (like Frankie has said) I'm fine with everything ending here.
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FitLaw41 day ago
+14
Can you describe his character? I dont have hulu in the country im in.
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Courwes1 day ago
+42
He was barely in it. All his appearances except one was over video call on a laptop. Pretty sure they were planning on having Erik reprise his role and this was a work around for him not having to film with everyone else. He could just record his lines and be done and they edit them into the show.
Anyway the excuse was he was a touring musician which is why he couldn’t be there in person and seemed to have a persona of a ladies man as he was always talking about different women he was seeing
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bjevans01201 day ago
+3
Look movie 2 . To
Remove the spaces.
That’s where I stream everything for free. Just have a good ad blocker preinstalled
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Grouchy-Donkey-86091 day ago
+1
to add, [https://tbcpl.lol/](https://tbcpl.lol/) has a list of good streaming sites. Again, use adblock (like firefox and ublock)
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BenQ2001 day ago
+45
I mean they showed Dewey for like 5 minutes total in the 4 episodes so he didn’t get much of a chance to f*** up
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Any_Asparagus82671 day ago
+23
When they showed the baby brother in the navy I was more shocked by that then Dewey, I said out loud is that the baby from the later seasons? Lol
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Ginway10101 day ago
+13
The casting was great. I could totally believe that Anthony Timpano was a grown up version of the kids that played Jamie and had to double check IMDb that he wasn’t one of them.
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Anishinaapunk1 day ago
+15
The "fan service" I was *really* hoping for, though, would be one more cameo of the hamster rolling by in the ball.
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1_11_11_1__1 day ago
+6
Look at the table when the confettis falling ;)
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Hayterfan1 day ago
+2
I just watched it last night and you expect me to ok I'll watch the whole thing again.
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BrosefDudeson2 days ago
+127
If nobody told me they switched actors I wouldn't know.
Reese however....
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dashauskat2 days ago
+103
Reese's mannerisms were exactly the same as in the OG show.
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MaineSoxGuy932 days ago
+89
And his voice sounded like he just filmed the last season a week ago. He didn't miss a beat.
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WalrusExtraordinaire2 days ago
+69
But Reese is the same actor? Unless you’re making a joke because he looks different as an adult than many expected
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BrosefDudeson2 days ago
+55
I'm making a joke
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RabidJoint2 days ago
+13
Yeah, I read it as you would definitely know if they changed his actor. Not even a joke, but more of a statement.
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Big_Gassy_Possum2 days ago
-5
The new Reese reminds me of the kid that played the little brother Ross in Unhappily Ever After, except grown up.....
-5
FuzzyScarf1 day ago
+7
He’s not new.
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smaffron1 day ago
+3
*whoosh*
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secondgenfarmhand2 days ago
+13
I thought it was the same human. Great casting
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Away-Requirement-31 day ago
+9
I like to think that Dewey just left the family because they always ignored and mistreated him so they replaced him with a fake Dewey and pretend he never left
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menacingsparrow1 day ago
+6
Accessible page here: https://archive.is/r2s4a
I’ve seen this guy do improv in Calgary. Very fun.
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AndySellsChicago1 day ago
+3
I roomed with the guy for about 3 months during an improv intensive in Chicago. Great guy, still in touch
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Plastic-Entry98071 day ago
+8
Instead of a lookalike they should've gotten Ryan Gosling
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UrbanGimli23 hr ago
+2
your suggestion reminds of that time the Community cast did a script read for Charity and Pedro Pascal played Pierce. It was hilarious.
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InformalFishingSong2 days ago
+26
Casting directors and shit prolly told him for years to get surgery to pin his ears back. Glad he didn’t cuz it paid off!!
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BakedWizerd1 day ago
+3
I’m glad people are enjoying this revival but it was just not for me.
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jennbo2 days ago
+5
It pissed me off because it was fine to replace the actor, it’s been decades, but then they barely use him in the show? It doesn’t make sense to me. The interactions between Reese, Dewey, and Malcolm specifically were pretty lacking
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neuronexmachina2 days ago
+54
I think they barely used his character *because* the original actor declined.
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Yenserl60992 days ago
+37
Yeah a story came out a couple days ago that the reason Dewey is on a laptop so much is because they tried up until the very last day to get Erik Per Sullivan back
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Anishinaapunk1 day ago
+4
I respect Erik's choice to decline for his own reasons, but god, I really do miss and admire that actor.
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jennbo2 days ago
+4
I understand — what I’m saying is that there’s no reason to barely use the character just because they recast the actor. He looked really similar, seemed like a good enough actor. Occasionally characters have to get recast for whatever reason; I can’t think of any examples why that causes someone to basically not use the character. (thinking of Roseanne having to replace the eldest daughter and then the original actor even eventually coming back!) Just a bad decision from the creators or producers or whoever.
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mikezer01 day ago
+5
It was clearly originally written so they could fit Erik Per in somehow. Also the actor who replaced Erik is like 6'3. Hes really tall. Erik Per is pretty short like 5'7. Probably would have been pretty jarring. It just would have been hella obvious it's not the original actor.
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Doorsofperceptio1 day ago
+2
I think it's because the original actor played Dewey for years and thus knows his character perfectly and thus how to behave.
The new actor doesn't and so they limit him to scenes where he's able to pull off the one element we all know defines the family; their wild arguments. That's something he can easily tap in to. But asking him to do scenes on his own and flesh out the character when he is the only replacement is asking a lot.
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meaniemeanie-poo-poo1 day ago
+2
I is smart.
I thought it was him; figured he changed his mind about returning 😬
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Chu_Kiddin_Me_Or_Wha1 day ago
+2
I generally don’t believe in rebooting projects if the original casting isn’t intact. This is no exception.
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poststalloneuk22 hr ago
+1
I've watched two episodes and can't stand it and this guy is maybe one of the worst parts lol
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TechGuy42O1 day ago
+1
Why did they replace the actor though?
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no_quarter891 day ago
+8
The original actor didn’t want to do it.
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lobido2 days ago
-37
Reese looks so terrible. Shoulda replaced him with someone that resembled him when he was a kid.
-37
maddy_k_allday1 day ago
+8
I haven’t watched but would like to point out that sometimes adults look worse than when they were children 😅
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lobido13 hr ago
+1
Annnnd, that's my point. No longer fits the character.
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HamburgerSink1 day ago
+10
Reese killled it. Get out of here with that nonsense. His voice literally didn’t change
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lobido13 hr ago
+1
Missed my point entirely. He looks like Barney Fife now. Doesn't work for the character Reese used to be.
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cowsintheclosetIG1 day ago
His voice might not have changed, but since when is Reese a little b****? I remember him being the tough older brother badass punk kid. Maybe I'm remembering wrong?
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hey_there_moon1 day ago
+9
Well they're not kids anymore and he's a washed up loser who can't just use violence to get his way.
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kelferkz1 day ago
+2
His voice and mannerisms were exactly the same, the writing and makeup departments are the ones to blame, not the actor
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lobido13 hr ago
+1
Reese looks like he has been starved.
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thiswasmysixthchoice2 days ago
-140
The original kid was a terrible actor so this guy couldn’t really have been worse.
-140
EquivalentSpot82922 days ago
+58
I liked Dewey. Him and Hal together was always gold, they went wild.
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