This is a wonderful, realistic TV drama about a big family living in the San Francisco bay area.
It features a large cast of characters that spans 3 generations who actually love and care about one another. Casting is excellent.
To heighten dramatic impact, every human joy and problem is experienced by someone in the group - dating, marriage, teenage angst, job problems, health problems, infidelity, Aspergers syndrome, business problems, PTSD and on and on. Each issue is dealt with in a credible and sensitive way. The dialog and acting work and the series has been informative and entertaining. There's also humor and lots of good will.
Once you get into the series, you really wind up caring about the characters - even if you don't share their religion or politics - which are implied but usually not overtly expressed.
PARENTHOOD is good quality television that thankfully NBC has kept on and allowed to conclude with dignity - unlike the abrupt boot the network gave to a similar family-themed show American DREAMS which aired in the early 2000s.
In all, PARENTHOOD will include 103 episodes that have run from March 2010 to January 2015.
---- Unfortunately, the PARENTHOOD writers chose to kill off the family patriarch Zeke in the final episode. What a completely unnecessary downer. WONDER YEARS killed the father off in the last episode as well. I like happy endings and this left a bitter taste for both series.
It features a large cast of characters that spans 3 generations who actually love and care about one another. Casting is excellent.
To heighten dramatic impact, every human joy and problem is experienced by someone in the group - dating, marriage, teenage angst, job problems, health problems, infidelity, Aspergers syndrome, business problems, PTSD and on and on. Each issue is dealt with in a credible and sensitive way. The dialog and acting work and the series has been informative and entertaining. There's also humor and lots of good will.
Once you get into the series, you really wind up caring about the characters - even if you don't share their religion or politics - which are implied but usually not overtly expressed.
PARENTHOOD is good quality television that thankfully NBC has kept on and allowed to conclude with dignity - unlike the abrupt boot the network gave to a similar family-themed show American DREAMS which aired in the early 2000s.
In all, PARENTHOOD will include 103 episodes that have run from March 2010 to January 2015.
---- Unfortunately, the PARENTHOOD writers chose to kill off the family patriarch Zeke in the final episode. What a completely unnecessary downer. WONDER YEARS killed the father off in the last episode as well. I like happy endings and this left a bitter taste for both series.