Better yet, the stuff Skeleton Crew has to say is relevant to a younger audience – like when KB (Kyriana Kratter) talks about how her friendship with Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) changed when she started using a prosthesis – or it’s baked into the show’s central gimmick as a sci-fi take on ’80s movies like The Goonies (like in episode 5,

Skeleton Crew’s charming, family-friendly space adventure could have been a nice refresh for the beleaguered franchise.