Rainbow Season 10

If you are after a comedy that actually makes you laugh out loud, Rainbow Season 10 is available on streaming right now. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Watch it for Stanley Bates — stay for everyone else around them. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Rainbow Season 10 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Rainbow Season 10 gets the fundamentals right first, then finds room to get weird with it. Freddy Marks replaces Roger Walker, creating the best remembered line up of the "Rainbow" Singers 'Rod, Jane and Freddy'. Stanley Bates and Roy Skelton lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1980. What keeps Rainbow Season 10 from feeling disposable is a cast that clearly understands the material better than the format usually demands. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Rainbow Season 10 is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. Stanley Bates is funny in a way that holds up on rewatch. Put it on when you need something guaranteed to land.