AS IT IS 2016-02-27 'Fuller House' Now on Netflix

AS IT IS 2016-02-27 'Fuller House' Now on Netflix

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“Full House” was an American television show from the 1980s to the 1990s. It was among the most popular TV shows of its time.

The show followed a widowed father who asks his friends to help him raise his three young girls. The last episode¹ of “Full House” aired in May 1995.

But on Friday, the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter in the U.S. was “Fuller House.” The new show is the long-awaited sequel series that follows the now-adult characters from “Full House.”  The streaming service Netflix released 13 episodes² of the new series at midnight Friday.

“Fuller House” trended throughout the night and into Friday morning on Twitter and Facebook. The actors on the show were among the top 10 U.S. Google searches, as well.

Longtime fans of “Full House” admitted that they stayed up all night to watch the entire season.

Excited fans tweeted about having waited more than 20 years for the sequel.

And television critic Hank Steuver of The Washington Post called the show, “a retread,” an “exhumation” and “just dreadful³.” He says the show is not “some golden treasure of family-friendly programming.”

Although most of the main characters from the original “Full House” have returned for “Fuller House,” the show’s youngest character, Michelle Tanner, did not appear. Michelle was played by twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

The Olsens are now active in the fashion world. The two did not agree to appear in the first season of the new show.

One episode of “Fuller House” even joked about their absence. One of her sisters on the show asks where Michelle is. Her father, Danny Tanner, responds: “Oh, she’s busy in New York running her fashion empire.”

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retread – n. something that uses ideas, stories, etc., that have been used before

exhume⁴ – v. to revive⁵ or restore after neglect or a period of forgetting

empire – n. a very large business or group of businesses under the control of one person or company?

dreadful – adj. very bad or unpleasant

widowed – adj. used to describe a woman whose husband has died or a man whose wife has died

1 episode   

n.（作品的一段）情节，插曲，系列事件中之一

参考例句：

• The episode was a huge embarrassment for all concerned.这段小插曲令所有有关人员都感到非常尴尬。
• This episode remains sharply engraved on my mind.这段经历至今仍深深地铭刻在我的心中。

2 episodes   

插曲，片断( episode的名词复数 )； 一集

参考例句：

• The novel deals with the romantic episodes of her early life. 小说叙述了她早期生活的浪漫插曲。
• Three episodes have been telescoped into a single programme. 把叁集的内容压缩成了一个节目。

3 dreadful   

adj.糟透了的，极端的，可怕的，令人畏惧的

参考例句：

• I cannot imagine what to do in this dreadful situation.我不能想像在这么糟的情况下该怎么办。
• I must apologize for the dreadful mistake I made.我为我所犯的严重错误深表歉意。

4 exhume   

v.掘出，挖掘

参考例句：

• His remains have been exhumed from a cemetery in Queens,New York City.他的遗体被从纽约市皇后区的墓地里挖了出来。
• When the police exhume the corpse,they discover trace of poison in it.警方掘出尸体，发现有中毒的痕迹。

5 revive   

v.（使）复苏，（使）重振活力，恢复生机，复兴

参考例句：

• These flowers will revive in water.这些花在水中会再活。
• They managed to revive the injured driver with cardiac massage.他们通过心脏按压使受伤的司机苏醒了过来。