NO SPOILERS as of now, but I can't speak for how people comment.
I know it's not the manliest show in the world, but for my money it was my favorite show on television until last night (because it's no longer on television).
What a beautiful portrait of the plights of the modern family. Really going to miss this show.
Craig T. Nelson has always reminded me of my own father. I will admit that I shed a tear at the end of the episode. It was a great show and I'm sad to see it go.
Never saw Friday Night Lights, but Parenthood is an unbelievable and realllly underrated program.
I never saw the first 2 seasons. Just the last 4.
My girlfriend at the time would watch it. I'd be relaxing with her on the iPad, and before I knew it, I was unintentionally picking up on the plot and the characters. From there, it developed right in front of me and I fell in love with them.
It's really one of the only shows (or movies, for that matter) that impeccably creates conflict without villains. Very rarely does the show have clear cut assholes and clear cut selfishness in play. It's almost always a situation where you legitimately empathize with both (or multiple) sides of a difficult situation, and you don't find yourself rooting for either side, but just marveling at how it progresses.
Obviously, I highly highly recommend it. From what I understand, it took a little of time to get it's feet wet in seasons 1 and 2. Where I picked up on it in season 3 is coincidently where my friends tell me it really found it's stride.
I've heard the last few seasons were better than the first, and I've heard the finale was great. Glad to hear. Great characters, great casting, great acting....
I've heard the last few seasons were better than the first, and I've heard the finale was great. Glad to hear. Great characters, great casting, great acting....
No offense man, but I hate that! To each his own of course, but I never understand why people shy away from emotionally impactful programming when the subject matter is upsetting. I'd rather Kristina's Cancer battle be illuminated than watch another show that focuses on very shallow, happy stuff.
Joel and Julia's saga hit very close to him in may ways, too.
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And it was great - found a lot of parallels to our own lives. We stopped watching when Kristina got cancer. My wife basically said, "I can't look forward to just crying every week watching this" and I had to agree. It was emotionally draining for us (possibly because of some of the parallels) and we never really looked back after we cut it out. We don't have a lot of time to watch TV, so we might as well spend the time watching something we're really looking forward to.
I've heard the last few seasons were better than the first, and I've heard the finale was great. Glad to hear. Great characters, great casting, great acting....
No offense man, but I hate that! To each his own of course, but I never understand why people shy away from emotionally impactful programming when the subject matter is upsetting. I'd rather Kristina's Cancer battle be illuminated than watch another show that focuses on very shallow, happy stuff.
Too true....To each their own. We watch plenty of emotionally, impactful, programming. But for us, it felt Parenthood was doing it every week, without the highs and the successes to offset the pains. I was really happy to see that the show was continuing to be successful. It just wasn't for us anymore.
If you admire that dynamic, you owe it to yourself to get into Friday Night Lights. Give it a chance... it may start out a bit inconsistently but really settles in.
There are no speeches punctuated by sappy emotional cues, no philosophical soliloquies, no (well, not many) overt assholes or angles -- just realistic people you find yourself becoming very invested in.
Sounds like Parenthood does the same.
Btw, In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked Friday Night Lights No. 22 in its of the "101 Best Written TV Series of All Time."