Quote (Blah58 @ Aug 18 2017 03:16am)
Watched like 6 episodes and the show tries way too hard.
I don't remember the exact line but there was a line in episode 1 or 2 where I was thinking, "ok wow they clearly don't give a shit about anything other than hitting as many boxes as possible". They clearly don't really care about accurate representation and just want to make the list of "quirky atypical nerdy personality" traits as big as possible.
The mother is also one of the worst written characters I think I've ever scene in a show.
One scene I really liked was when the father went to the support group and basically got bullied out of it by all the political correctness bullshit. It is a great scene because it shows how all this super sensitivity bullshit is generally more harmful than helpful. But the thing is I don't know if that's what the show was trying to do... I actually felt like it was an accident that happened when the show was trying to represent the 'proper' way to talk about the issues. Which is really funny imo.
Like the show was trying to be all "this is how you should act you stupid oaf" but the actual message turned out to be "acting this way is extremely alienating for people, and pulls the focus away from actually helping people".
Either way, intended or not, probably the best scene in the series.
The mother, great actress, but I agree, her storyline was silly. It's like they didn't have enough material to work with so they threw in some random affair. I can see how her family not liking her is realistic, but it just added more of a humorous factor more than anything.
I still enjoyed the show, moreso as a comedy. I would recommend, but probably never will repeat watch.
This post was edited by stupidkid282 on Aug 25 2017 03:21am