Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson, both of who got their big breaks on period sitcom That '70s Show, have teamed up a decade after the show that made them famous ended, and now they're taking Michael Kelso and Steven Hyde's rivalry to Netflix!
The first trailer for the pair's upcoming show, The Ranch, is finally out, and it looks more traditional than most Netflix original sitcoms.
Save for Fuller House (which isn't exactly an original show, more of a revival/reboot), so far Netflix comedies have been less sitcom-with-laugh-track and much more dramedy, with Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt easily being the show most resembling this traditional format, though still coming from a fairly dramatic premise and entirely lacking of a laugh track. The trailer for The Ranch, however, shows a much more by-the-books series, a format almost entirely unfamiliar for Netflix.
The Ranch, which so far feels more like a That '70s Show reunion than a Netflix series, brings its two stars, who are friends in real life and play brothers in the upcoming series, to the streaming site. The rest of the cast is pretty impressive, too: Debra Winger plays their mother, Sam Elliott is their father and Elisha Cuthbert is apparently a misplaced romantic interest to Kutcher's character.
According to TVLine, the new show follows Colt (Kutcher), a semi-pro football player, who returns home after a not-that-stellar career to help out his brother Rooster (Masterson) to run their family's Colorado ranch. Hilarity supposedly ensues because of how dumb and out of touch Kutcher's character is and how often Masterson makes fun of him.
Much like in That '70s Show, there's also a very manly overly tough dad (Elliott), though it remains to be seen whether he'll utter the word "dumba$" as often as Red Forman did. Still, he does get at least one cringe-worthy moment in the form of a lame quinoa joke.
In all, it's a throwback to regular laugh-track sitcoms with just a tiny twist: they get to curse.
The 10-episode first season of The Ranch will premiere on Netflix next April 1, though it's apparently not an April Fool's prank.
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