i don't know why this exists had i not known that there were other unauthorized stories i
know there's a save by the bell one i would have really questioned the point in this one
but i can see that this unauthorized series is just a production company gaining views and
attention off of the back of successful sixth and tv shows there's also apparently one for beverly
hills 90210 i haven't seen the other two um but i have of course seen the full house story and
it's the biggest cringe i have ever seen there are a few things about it that i thought were
fun and there are some good casting choices and i will talk about those and i will praise those
where it is deserved but this just feels
untrustworthy and not that i'm saying the entire thing comprises lies but i don't trust it i have
no reason to believe that the anecdotes they are presenting in this narrative are true
and there are some things and some things in this that i knew to be wrong or exaggerated or
underplayed so i don't trust anything they tell me which is a shame because i've watched a few
people's reviews of this and read a few people's thoughts after watching it and while opinions were
very divided some people thought this was awful some people really enjoyed it and then there
were those who just found it fascinating with some of the things that were revealed in this
but you can't trust it you cannot trust that what this says is true i guess i should tell you what
this is about this is about an hour and a half in length and it's basically a fake version of
a behind the scenes of full house i am a huge huge full house fan and fuller house of course
and it's part behind the scenes of filming the episodes we have actors playing the actors
playing the characters which is pretty interesting and then we have kind of following their lives
around when they're not filming primarily um the guys so dave coulier bob saget and john stamos
and there are some kind of maybe scandalous things or outrageous things revealed and i'm not saying
they're not true but i'm saying you can't just look at this and believe it and that's all i'm
really going to say on that because i have no reason to believe that anything this says is true
i have reason to believe that certain things to say are not true
and they miss out some really key facts that kind of go in the opposite direction of a more negative
scandalous message they're trying to give so it's very one-sided it's very unbalanced and i'd only
recommend you watch it if i recommend it at all because i really don't know
but i'd only recommend you watch it if you are prepared to accept that you cannot believe
everything that is being fictionalized in this unauthorized full house story
all of it all of the all of the aspects of this that were filmed outside of the tv studio
i could not care less for so when we're following the personal lives of the fictitious dave puglia
the bob saget and the john stamos characters boring as anything and i guess that's because
i have no trust i have no trust in what they're saying i don't believe what they're saying or i
have no reason to i just don't think it's a very good representation but i did actually
kind of enjoy or i guess found fascinating the scenes where they were pretending to film
episodes so they have a mock-up of the house um backwards the house is backwards in the mock-up
which is a weird choice unless they flipped the image in post i don't know why they would do that
um and there's a really cute scene where one of the girls pretending to be mary kate or ashley
is being um her lines are being whispered to her and she copies them and she says you got it dude
and it's kind of like if the casting had been different
or if full house had been cast today well in 2015 what would what would they perhaps look like
what were the alternatives and that i think is interesting because i always find it interesting
when we see actors playing characters we love for example just look at the unaired pilot um
bob saget is not in that but danny taller still is and i think that's um you know really interesting
to watch and if you squint when they're doing distance shots you can kind of pretend it's the
actual actors and you're watching actual behind the scenes footage when they have taylor reads
when they announce that they're being canceled after eight seasons that's interesting because to
me that's just a fictionalized version of filming in hollywood but the whole personal lives aspect
does not work for me the casting there are two only two and a half cast members that i thought
looked the part performed the part were genuinely believable the first one is young jody sweden
she's played by dakota guppy and i thought she was amazing i thought she truly she truly embodied the
stephanie as portrayed by jody sweden i thought she was fantastic and the other one is the
older kimmy gibler or the older andrea barber played by james schneider i thought she definitely
had the right um facial expressions the right intonations that we could expect from kimmy
when she was playing kimmy i thought she was absolutely brilliant
i will say though that they haven't got the casting ages right it takes us through the show by
seasons it starts of course with season one mary kate actually were six months old in season one
the twins they have for this first bit are i don't know maybe two years old
and by the last season the twins look about gosh i'm not sure how old they look but they look
a lot older than mary kate and ashley did the same with um older candice cameron she's played
brilliantly by brittany wilson um actually younger candace cameron is fantastic as well
she's played by shelby armstrong doesn't look like her but i thought her performance was really great
um but older canvas cameron looks far too old so visually didn't really do much of
an effort there justin gaston is john stamos pretty decent i will say the hair is what makes it
and there are certain times when you look at them from certain angles and think actually that you
can see the look alike and then when they start moving and talking it's no so you have to suspend
disbelief a little bit but it's interesting to see this alternative casting why they decided to go on
and show candace cameron's wedding i'm not really sure i was a bit nervous because they showed
the fictitious jody sweden at candace cameron's wedding and obviously one of the main anecdotes
is that 14 year old sweden was drunk off of her face at that wedding and i was i was thinking are
they going to go into this no they didn't and i'm kind of glad of that but at the same time it just
proves that there's a lot they miss out on kimmy gibler's prom dress what are you doing you know
there are a lot of things that they just didn't bother to touch on or maybe it got edited out
of the final cut there are a lot of things that they clearly chose to focus on being one-sided
and i just think that if you're a fan of the show it's fun to watch
for some reasons but you have to not take it seriously if you're a casual watcher of the
show i'd strongly suggest you do not watch this because it might give you a negative attitude
about the show because it doesn't necessarily paint it in the best light some of the time
and if you don't care about the show by all means watch it or not watch it um it
will not affect your opinion at all so i'd recommend it if you're a die-hard fan of
the show and just have a good laugh at it because it's an embarrassment it is a joke
as i said this is clearly i'm just surprised to air for a lifetime why would they air unauthorized
version i really don't know how this ever got commissioned for broadcast i genuinely don't
i guess just the fact that people like me would watch it out of curiosity but it is a joke it's
clearly been made to make money off of the back of a successful tv show as is the case with the
saved by the bell one and the 902101 neither of which uh there's also a melrose place one
which uh i'm not familiar with melrose place so i don't know what they're like but as a big full
house fan i can say that this was interesting to laugh at but it's it's disturbing how
negative or pessimistic it comes across as and it definitely does more home than good
for a casual viewer it's cringy it's embarrassing there are a lot of bad decisions made a couple of
good decisions in terms of casting the set design although backwards is actually pretty impressive
i still don't understand why it exists i don't think it should exist but if you do love full
house watch it for a laugh but please do not take it or anything it says seriously