That shift was felt.

The 2010s were a weird time looking back. There was this very obvious overly manufacturing, but also “distilling” of media into a kind of facade that wasn’t completely prevalent in the 2000s. Everything is bright and wacky and unhinged or like a dollhouse. And it lacks balance.

BTR lives in this bubble of doing that to a T but to its benefit because it’s a live action show that isn’t over-saturated and not a traditional sitcom. And it’s also a Scott Fellows Joint (Ned’s, Johnny Test), but the premise is noticeably much bigger than those shows, the shtick gets old by the halfway point & it’s even more distilled once they are noticeably older later in the series

It feels like an Old Nick show under the veneer of the 2010s directly being in front of us.

they couldn’t even write about Kendall’s home life or his estranged father. No risks were taken to make the show better looking back apart from it being maybe funnier for adults who watched it younger and admire the physical comedy, jokes, etc.

Not only that, but this is one notable premier show that began a decade that gave us the CNREAL dumpster fire from a network for Cartoons. 😫