"The Cool Kids" were very suddenly uncool in Fox's eyes — the show was unceremoniously canceled just ahead of the network's spring presentation to advertisers in 2019. It was part of the annual culling of shows just prior to the events (which take place at the same time for all four big networks) that has come to be known as the "broadcast bloodbath."

Fortunately, coolness is in the eye of the beholder, and a few digital video-on-demand services — including Amazon Video and YouTube in the U.S. and Google Play in Canada — are making the show's lone season available for rent/purchase.

Forgive the use of the slash there. Renting and purchasing are, of course, very different things, but in the digital-video business, they tend to be lumped together in opposition to streaming.

Streaming is the better-known digital option — the one offered by Netflix, Hulu and others — where you pay a subscription fee and watch as much as you want. It encourages binge-watching and thereby became more of a cultural phenomenon (as well as a drastically different way to consume media — renting and buying episodes is more familiar to those who remember the Blockbuster days).

Of course, if you plan to rewatch all 22 episodes of "The Cool Kids" more than once, then buying it from one of the services mentioned above is worth the individual investment.

And there are good reasons to rewatch it, such as its cast — David Alan Grier ("In Living Color"), Vicki Lawrence ("The Carol Burnett Show"), Martin Mull ("The Ranch") and Leslie Jordan ("Call Me Kat") — and a premise that appealed directly to people over 50; an underserved age group, to put it mildly.

The four of them starred as a gang of rowdy retirement community residents who get into high jinks — a pretty simple but delightful premise.

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