: While some enjoy the throwback references to dial-up internet and Zima, others feel the 1990s setting is "incidental" or purely cosmetic compared to how much the original show leaned into its era.

: Many reviewers from The Geeky Waffle and The Sunflower argue that the show is carried by the older Forman family members, noting that Debra Jo Rupp and Kurtwood Smith fall back into their roles effortlessly.

Critics and fans alike have split opinions on whether the new generation of Point Place kids can live up to the original cast's chemistry.