We're off to the races with another season of Parenthood. Anyone want to guess what crazy zany career Lauren Graham has this year? Will the bartender/playwright/author/photographer find a new thing this year?
Or maybe the season before that!Patrick Sun said:They should have just ended this show last season.
And yet no explanation of how that ever happened. Watching her destroy the smoke detector, though, was both appropriate and entertaining!David Weicker said:Harried, hit-upon Building Super.
I liked Amber/Drew, too. But the proposal? Meh. You just know this is a relationship that doesn't have the slightest chance of success. The writers are trying to make it easy on themselves. Conflict between Amber & Sarah, too!Did like the Amber/Drew scene. And the proposal worked for me ( even if it was one of their patented 'home-runs').
C'mon, David. She never really left. I'd be amazed if anyone really thought they'd have her change her stripes.But bad Jasmine has returned.
O...M...G! YES!!!!! I was totally sure he was going to rear-end someone of run into a stop-sign or something. Too funny!And was anyone else freaked out watching Crosby drive - head constantly turned, both hands off of the wheel
No, no, no.Greg_S_H said:Drew proposed to Amber? This show has become quite sick since I dumped it.
Yes...and yes.Greg_S_H said:ADAM PROPOSED TO CROSBY?!
And then the adopted kid (don't remember the name) became the Dodger's top prospect.
It was actually nice to see Sarah working in a realistic job for her situation again.David Weicker said:Harried, hit-upon Building Super.
I was thinking the same thing during that scene! About mid-way through I started counting the seconds between glances at the road in front of him.And was anyone else freaked out watching Crosby drive - head constantly turned, both hands off of the wheel
When Amber gave him the speech about not making the same mistakes her mother did, and how she can't prop him up if he's unwilling or unable to prop himself up, that should have been the last time we saw that character.And while reservists certainly do get called up, the fact that they put him back serving overseas tells me that they have no idea who the character is outside of being a service member. I actually didn't mind the Jasmine/Crosby storyline this week. Crosby not immediately bonding with his daughter and the guilt and fear that comes with that stuck me as a very real thing. I also thought that Crosby reacting to life with a tiny baby was something that the show had to delve into, given that he wasn't around when Jabar was little. I was happy the show didn't play up the dramatics of a premature birth, and I was glad the birth of the baby didn't eat up the whole season premiere.At the end, when Crosby was still keeping up with Jasmine after days of hell, it was nice to see her acknowledge that yes he's in the trenches with her and that no, Jabar wasn't this fussy as a newborn. I thought the scene where she agreed to let the baby be just a Braverman was hugely important. Not because I necessarily have a problem with couples that hyphenate their children's surnames, but because it's a statement of intention on her part that she's not going to go down the road she went down with Jabar. Crosby is this baby's father, and he's got an equal say in her upbringing.That being said, I think Jasmine's kept her streak of terrible baby names alive. Aida isn't "Jabar" bad, but it's certainly not great.Mike Frezon said:I liked Amber/Drew, too. But the proposal? Meh. You just know this is a relationship that doesn't have the slightest chance of success. The writers are trying to make it easy on themselves. Conflict between Amber & Sarah, too!
I don't know what's more implausible...Kristina running for mayor, or a guy who couldn't even win the vote for councilman running for mayor.Adam Lenhardt said:I was pretty much with this episode, until Kristina decided to run for mayor of Berkeley despite literally no name recognition, never having held public office before, and never serving in a political capacity higher than speechwriter. We're talking about an affluent city with a population of more than 110,000 people. To put it into perspective, the current real-life mayor of Berkeley had spent twenty years in the state legislature before running for mayor.
Up until that moment, I thought: ok, she's going to go back and be a campaign manager, and at least there is a history of that. This would be like James Carville or Karl Rove suddenly running for President because they've managed a campaign. It was ridiculous. I kept thinking of Modern Family's political race where Clare ran for city council and got stomped because she had no real experience, and thought: she aimed for a lower office and was destroyed, and that was probably closer to the truth then this nonsenseMike Frezon said:Talk about an idea coming straight out of the ether.
They might have done better to have Jon Lovitz "translate" Kristina's announcement to Adam that she would be running for mayor.
"Yeah. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna run for mayor. That's the ticket."
I wonder what would even motivate her character to put the thought of running for mayor into her head. Is there some "single issue" she thinks needs fixing?
Such a radical hit-the-brakes-hard-and-turn-left moment would usually be ascribed to Sarah Braverman. To have it come from Kristina is really off-the-rails.