Mighty Med Retrospective

We know that superheroes save people, but who saves the people who save people? Well, if you’re unlucky enough to be injured in the Lab Rats Universe, your first port of call is Mighty Med. I’ll let you decide which bit of that’s the bad luck.

Mighty Med was the Brainchild of Jim Bernstein, a producer who’d worked on Phineas and Ferb and American Dad and Andy Schwartz, who’d been a writer and editor for Scrubs and had worked on Drake and Josh prior to that. The show ran for 44 episodes across 2 seasons, a relatively short run and not a well acclaimed one, with an average 6.5/10 on IMDb. This is not dissimilar to the score of Lab Rats either, so let’s not jump to conclusions there

The main stars of the show are Bradley Steven Perry, who has Disney Channel Experience playing Gabe Duncan on Good Luck Charlie, and having a role in Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure; Jake Short who’d played Fletcher on A.N.T. Farm, and making her television debut, Paris Berelc.

Other actors involved are Devan Leos, I briefly mentioned how he attempted to murder a homeless person in my Austin and Ally retrospective. Seriously, f*ck him. And he won’t be last controversial figure I’ll mention unfortunately. Carlos Lacamara is also a pretty significant cast member, he was in Independence Day.

Much like with the Austin and Ally and Lab Rats reviews, I’ll cover the opening episodes, and any important developments through the rest of the show’s run. I won’t cover every episode in-depth because this is a sitcom and that would just amount to explaining the jokes. I’ll also be covering the Lab Rats vs Mighty Med crossover.

TV Retrospective - Lab Rats season 3 and Bionic Island

Lab Rats had a stunning finale to s2, it was funny but more importantly it turned the tables. Now Davenport and the Lab Rats have their backs to the wall, can they fight against the insurmountable odds? Anyone else thinking of Joker War right now? Series 3 and 4 have more plot-necessary episodes than their predecessors, so this might be a longer review than the first. I’m going to skip over the Lab Rats vs Mighty Med Episode and talk about the full 2-parter in my Mighty Med Retrospective in a couple of months.

TV Retrospective - Lab Rats Seasons 1 and 2

It’s time to do another retrospective on a Disney Sitcom, in the build-up to something for the 7^th anniversary. So for the next 2 weeks (yes, this is a 2-parter, the show’s got nearly 100 episodes) we’ll be looking at Lab Rats

Lab Rats in principle is something I should be quite interested in, and is the Brainchild of Chris Peterson and Bryan Moore, guys who are very experienced working together, being co-producers on ‘That 70’s show’ then being producers on TV movies. The show ran for 4 seasons and a total of 89 episodes, each season is different in length, it’s weird.

I’ll tackle Lab Rats the same way I tackled Austin and Ally, I’ll give a rundown of the opening episodes, then cover any important developments, new characters or anything worthy of discussion for the rest of seasons 1 and 2. I may also bring up some stuff to make points about next time.

TV Retrospective - Austin and Ally

With the current state of the world being… as it is, Disney+ has much needed reprieve, more so than even Netflix. There’s always an air of quality to a Disney production even if it ends up being garbage for other reasons. I’ve really started to enjoy the more theatric Disney musicals, it’s why I’m reviewing the Teen Beach Movies, but in research for those I came across something else, a Disney Sitcom named Austin and Ally.

Disney is long famed for creating musical stars that go on to have pop music careers, Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers to name a couple of examples. But Ross Lynch, the actor playing Austin, already had some experience, he and his family (plus one other) had self-released an EP under the band name R5.

Far as I can tell, none of the other leads had musical experience going in though I would presume musical talent came as part of the auditioning process, especially given what they ended up with in the main product.

So why am I doing a single review of the entire show instead of an episode by episode retrospective? Primarily because it’s a sitcom. It’s the same reason I’m hesitant on doing the Malibu Rescue series, despite doing the pilot movie. I could break every episode down but doing that would be paramount to just explaining all the jokes. Whilst there are developments through the series, I wouldn’t call the show serialised, or even narrative-driven, so an episode-by-episode breakdown wouldn’t really work.

That and even with me drawing Daredevil and Reboot: The Guardian Code to a close, I’m still doing Dragons, Stranger Things, Jessica Jones and Voltron and I plan to do resume covering Young Justice, do breakdown for the final series of the Clone Wars, and there’s also candidates like High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, The Mandalorian, Titans, The Umbrella Academy, the Dragon Prince, not all of these are even set in stone, but there’s a lot.