I've watched the first three episodes so far, and I'm enjoying the ride.
And the older characters have been mostly used well. Kitty and Red get top billing this time around, and their stories get around half the running time. That's a smart move. Debra Jo Rupp is so terrific as Kitty, a Kitty...
I like how the house looks twenty years older. The bones are the same, but it feels like the nineties at an older couple's place and not still like the seventies. And then the basement has been preserved pretty much as it was, because who redecorates a basement?
The series premiere of "The '70s Show" aired in 1998 and was set in 1976, twenty-two years earlier. It's depressing to think about, but the nineties now are actually quite a bit further in the past than the seventies were then. This show is set in 1995, which is more than a quarter of a century...