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Back in March, I took a look back at the 1987 Beauty and the Beast live action TV show. If you need a refresher on that I said that it had some charming elements but was ultimately too much of a product of its time. At the end of that article, I mentioned that there was a reboot of the show in 2012. Well, now seems about the right time to tackle that particular piece of bizarre TV ephemera, especially given it’s the anniversary of the release of the animated Beauty and the Beast adaptation.
However, the show itself has left me a little stymied. It’s not exactly a bad series it’s just not interesting enough on its own to actually discuss so this will be less of a review than the previous article. Instead, think of this as a retrospective as I think the way Beauty and the Beast (2012) actually happened is way more interesting than the show itself. It’s a strange one-shot of a series that embodies the last moment in time when its various trends could come together in this way.
