Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action Part 2

They Thought I Was You

Today we continue our journey watching Mary-Kate and Ashley’s fourth and final television series, Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action.

In this episode, we review episodes 2-6, and we also give a brief history of the cartoon series. We go over the myriad merchandise Dualstar created before it knew that the cartoon was a failure (including action figures, bed spreads, birthday party favors, etc), and the original pitch for the show as Mary-Kate and Ashley as crime fighting movie stars.

Then we dive into our review of the first quarter of this show to see if our predictions from the pilot were true. We discuss the surprisingly complicated themes of the episodes, including the shaming of women who want to wear makeup, the consequences of having a stolen childhood, the importance of diversity, and not letting your insecurities create bad behavior towards others. Despite these deep & interesting topics, these episodes were not very good at all. Except for maybe the beginning of Episode 6, which Lani forgot to watch.
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