Director: Lindsay Turner
Wisconsin summers, secondhand basement furniture, and a new generation of teenagers stumbling into trouble anchor "That '90s Show," a 2023 sitcom that hands the Point Place torch to the next Forman.
What is That 90S Show about?
It's 1995, and Leia Forman — daughter of Eric and Donna — arrives in Point Place, Wisconsin for what's meant to be a routine summer visit with her grandparents. Instead, she falls in with a fresh crop of local teenagers and finds herself pulled into the same rhythms of basement hangouts, awkward crushes, and low-stakes rebellion that defined her parents' own coming-of-age years earlier. Grandmother Kitty watches over the group with warmth that barely conceals her worry, while grandfather Red supplies the gruff disapproval that's kept generations of Point Place kids in line. The new ensemble reworks familiar dynamics — the outsider trying to fit in, the overconfident friend, the quiet one who says the sharpest things — without simply repeating the earlier show's jokes beat for beat. Music, fashion, and cultural references shift to the mid-'90s, but the core setup stays the same: a small Midwestern town, a circle of friends with nowhere better to be, and a summer that ends up mattering more than anyone expected.
Cast & crew
Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp reprise their roles as Red and Kitty Forman, giving the new show its connective tissue to the original series, while Callie Haverda leads the younger cast as Leia alongside Ashley Aufderheide, Mace Coronel, Reyn Doi, Sam Morelos, and Maxwell Acee Donovan as her new circle of friends. Lindsay Turner directs, balancing legacy nostalgia with a cast built to stand on its own.
Context & significance
"That '90s Show" is a direct continuation of a sitcom that originally ran in the late 1990s and early 2000s, shifting the setting forward roughly two decades so the children of the original characters can take center stage. The approach mirrors a broader trend of legacy sitcom revivals that lean on returning cast members for familiarity while introducing a younger ensemble built to carry the show independently, and the mid-'90s setting lets the series mine a different decade's soundtrack and slang for its comedy.
Where & how to watch
"That '90s Show" is available on K-Time with a Farsi-language interface designed for Persian-speaking viewers, complete with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. This page can be read without an account; watching the series requires logging into K-Time first.