Jill driving anyone else crazy???
I just saw all the episodes again, and I have to admit that Jill is driving me absolutely crazy! Was there ever a more conceited, self-righteous woman than Jill Brock? She is always meddling in other people's business, eavesdropping on her children's conversations and then giving Kimberly a hard time about what she said to Matt and Zack (one episode that comes to mind is when Kimberly told her brothers that she did not believe there is a God, and Jill who was listening behind the door got terribly upset (what happened to freedom of religion?)
Not to mention all the times Jill starts a sentence by saying: "I know it's none of my business", only to go on to ask all kinds of indiscreet questions and try to tell people how to live their lives. I really find her character quite intolerable, but maybe that's only a cultural thing?
I am a European myself and I honestly don't know if you have to be an American to truly understand this show (don't get me wrong, I like it a lot and find it very enjoyable to watch, but there are simply so many things I don't understand), but to me it is just hypocrisy a lot of the time; Jill constantly going on about being a scientist, but at the same insisting on the existence of God and insisting her children worship him. And all that talk about setting an example, not talking about sex in front of children, etc...it makes me think of Little House on the Prairie but, back then, those were the values of society. But hadn't those values changed in the 1990s? And the minister, Henry Novotny...sometimes, I have to remind myself that he is NOT reverend Alden i Walnut Grove in the 1880s, because his values and beliefs seem more consistent with those of another century. And I was truly shocked when Wambaugh had his wife arrested for adultery, claiming that it was a crime, and the sheriff actually had her arrested???
Another comment, just a detail really, but an intriguing one: as a doctor with her own practice, I would imagine that Jill needs to see a certain number of patients every day to make a living? However, she seems to be present at every trial. I have been wondering how a doctor can take that much time off to attend trials, instead of attending to her patients...?