I always wanted to go back into my younger body to see if I could change things for the better. I know that if time travel is possible, the chances of finding the correct timeline would be almost impossible (where everything newsworthy happens exactly the way it did my first time around). I probably couldn't get rich from betting on famous games or get rich from the stock market because things would be different (or slightly different) in each timeline.
I wouldn't care if "Do Over" was a comedy or a drama because it's my kind of show. I just love the whole idea. It doesn't hurt that the show has a good cast and the quality is worthy of one of the major three or four networks.
There's only one thing to complain about, the music. I don't mean the music is bad, I just hate it when TV shows and movies pick a specific time in history and then use music from the future. Anyone with half a brain knows that most people use music as the soundtrack of their lives, and when you use music from the wrong time period, it breaks the reality. They start thinking about the screw-up and attention is pulled away from the story (and maybe even the commercials). If the people in charge of the music of a TV show like this aren't old enough to remember the 1980s, they could at least look in a top 40 hits book or get the information off the internet. Everything before 1990 didn't happen in the same year. Here are three songs used in "Do Over" that made my jaw hit the floor:
"Our House" by Madness - 1983
"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham! - 1984
"You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" by Dead or Alive - 1985
Remember, it's supposed to be 1981, those songs should be in future seasons of the show. I'm sure they could have found appropriate songs to use from 1981 if they cared about the integrity of the show. I like "Do Over," but I would like it even more if they got the music right.
I wouldn't care if "Do Over" was a comedy or a drama because it's my kind of show. I just love the whole idea. It doesn't hurt that the show has a good cast and the quality is worthy of one of the major three or four networks.
There's only one thing to complain about, the music. I don't mean the music is bad, I just hate it when TV shows and movies pick a specific time in history and then use music from the future. Anyone with half a brain knows that most people use music as the soundtrack of their lives, and when you use music from the wrong time period, it breaks the reality. They start thinking about the screw-up and attention is pulled away from the story (and maybe even the commercials). If the people in charge of the music of a TV show like this aren't old enough to remember the 1980s, they could at least look in a top 40 hits book or get the information off the internet. Everything before 1990 didn't happen in the same year. Here are three songs used in "Do Over" that made my jaw hit the floor:
"Our House" by Madness - 1983
"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham! - 1984
"You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" by Dead or Alive - 1985
Remember, it's supposed to be 1981, those songs should be in future seasons of the show. I'm sure they could have found appropriate songs to use from 1981 if they cared about the integrity of the show. I like "Do Over," but I would like it even more if they got the music right.