TV on DVD: Parker Lewis Can’t Lose: The Complete First Season - Popdose.com
06 July 2009
In 1990, the same year NBC attempted to turn Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) into a weekly series, the Fox network aired an innovative, irreverent, hip little sitcom called Parker Lewis Can't Lose. This essential show from the early '90s shares many attributes with John Hughes's classic teen comedy: Parker is a Bueller-esque high school student who talks directly to the audience in his voice-overs and seems to have a handle on being the coolest guy in school (though his wardrobe consists of the Fresh Prince's castoffs). In addition, he has loving, sometimes clueless parents and a sister who may be the spawn of Satan.
But calling Parker Lewis Can't Lose a rip-off of Ferris Bueller's Day Off is disrespectful to the series and the talented group of writers, directors, and actors who worked on it. Despite some definite Bueller-type moments in the pilot, the series quickly established its own quirky identity by the second episode. (Ferris Bueller, the series, was canceled after 13 episodes, while Parker Lewis lasted three seasons.) Nineteen years after it premiered, Shout! Factory has released the complete first season in a DVD box set that proves the show's success was no fluke. Funny, innovative, and still pretty hip, Parker Lewis is still a winner.
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