I didn't want to like it, but I just watched the first season and I'm obviously going to keep watching it. Catherine Reitman is wonderful, all the characters are so well done. I love reading Wikipedia, I learned that her brother directed Juno, a favorite movie of mine. I did not know that her husband in the show is her husband in real life. I love Canadian shows.
Of course it's overly dramatic, but I've come to realize to make a TV show "slow burn" isn't always the way. I didn't have Netflix for a year and I honestly don't feel like I missed much. I watched season 4 of Atypical. But I guess I'm back on the Netflix train.
Christ I just realized it's Sex In The City, except with Children. I like that show too. It's like Friends after they all get married, and separate off into their own domestic worlds. I want to say it's like Thirtysomething, a show I didn't really watch much, but it's a middle age with children sitcom. I'm sure there's a market for that.
And of course it perpetuates the middle class values. Since my tumble down the economic ladder, I see how middle class everything is. Not a lot of poverty and poor depictions. I guess that's too depressing and anyway we judge them, push them away. Those poor people. I just read the Robin Williams put it in his contract that they had to hire a certain amount of homeless people. I think that's a cool move, on an individual level. I'd like to get away from our society needing heroic measures and just have systematic support.
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