“Have Mercy,” I thought to myself when I found out the 90s hit sitcom "Full House" was making a comeback as a Netflix original series. Two decades have passed since "Full House" aired its final episode, but its frequent reruns throughout the years have resulted in a generation of fans that were not even born yet during final curtain call of the show's 8-season run.

The highly anticipated program hit Netflix accounts in late February. The Tanner family opened their doors to us once again. Uncle Jesse, Aunt Becky, Joey, Danny, DJ, Stephanie, Kimmy, and even heart-throb Steve, were standing there in that house that feels like a time capsule of simpler times. The program did a great job tributing its past. For fans who are very familiar with the original series (yes, I’m talking to those of you who, like myself, have the whole series on DVD encased in the house box) nostalgia ensued as phrases like “how rude” came back to life and subtle reenactments of past scenes happened. As I laughed, and maybe and even cried just a little, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was missing from "Fuller House."

What "Full House" had that its successor doesn’t is wholesomeness and I’m afraid that the program isn’t the only thing lacking this key trait. It is something that has been lost in our society over these past 20 years. "Full House" might have been corny at times and maybe a little unrealistic, but that is what made the show so comforting and family-friendly. In the late 80s and 90s, television could make jokes and plots around subjects that weren’t sex, drinking, or technology. "Full House" rarely showed characters drinking. Only one episode was done where risky drinking was discussed. Kimmy gets wasted at a college party however, the central theme of this episode was not partying; it was about friendship, and coming of age. Sexual references were made rarely and tastefully, usually over the heads of younger viewers.

"Full House" frequently shows characters drinking; Stephanie is double fisting bottles of champagne in probably half the episodes. Sexual references are blatant. The only young female character featured in the program, Kimmy’s daughter Ramona, is frankly a brat. It saddens me that "Fuller House" is a representation of our society today. In just two decades, our culture has lost its innocence, lost its values. Clean fun does not exist anymore.

Since the 90s, we as a society have spiraled into a highly sexualized, materialistic, and detached population. The kids of "Fuller House" are more preoccupied with their cell phones than each other, decreasing the dialogue and character development that was seen in "Full House." I don’t get the same sense of family unity. It is silly to think that cultures won’t change over 20 years, but my question is, why are we heading in this direction?

"Full House" brought peace of mind to viewers, an idea that life can be secure and loving. "Fuller House" does not provide this same level of assurance and I fear this is because it is a foreign concept in the 21st century. Our society has made some noble and bold improvements since the original "Full House' was conceptualized, but we have also lost a lot.

Can we get the purity and simplicity of "Full House" back or has it become a thing of the past, something that exists only as memory of our last wholesome decade? I mean, really “Whatever happened to predictability, the milkman, the paper boy, or evening TV?”