Yes, I do realize we are all flawed and none of us are perfect, but it seems that the creators intentionally made each and every character despicable in some way, as if the producers of "Jerry Springer" somehow injected their influence into the show.
Even the clergy are portrayed as people who should be reviled.
And I suppose that's the whole point; to shock and provoke especially those who embrace Christian values.
That's not the same reaction that I got watching this. If anything, only the gay-bashers who attacked Peter and Adam are the only ones are despicable.
Are you including Daniel's mother who has Alzheimer's?
I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.
Oh, I don't agree at all. I loved the show. I mean, yeah, it may have been a little over the top...but all families have their problems. Not one family is full of perfect people. That's one of the reasons that I loved the show! I really miss it and hate that it was canceled!!!
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i agree ellen is beautifull and hot for her age OF 75!!!!!!! I ALSO LIKED THE SHOW I HAVE IT ON DVD!
Close-minded people like the OP is the reason the show got cancelled. I applaud this show for not showing Christians as uptight bible beaters and judgemental jerks. I liked that it showed that most of us are genuinely flawed people who struggle with everything the world throws at us.
I loved that despite the fact that they are slightly dysfunctional, you can clearly see the deep bond every member of the family has with the other. They may poke fun and attempt to rile each other up, but at the end of the day, they're family and love each other. I liked that Daniel had a healthy marriage with actual communication.
I thought this was a fantastic show and wish the American Family Association would shove it and let those of us that aren't retarded enjoy a well made show.
Close-minded people like the OP is the reason the show got cancelled. I applaud this show for not showing Christians as uptight bible beaters and judgemental jerks. I liked that it showed that most of us are genuinely flawed people who struggle with everything the world throws at us.
...they are slightly dysfunctional...
...let those of us that aren't retarded enjoy a well made show..
Again, your comments here make no reference at all to the actual show in any way. Not one character, episode, subplot. Because you've never seen it, have you? You just jumped on the bandwagon. That makes you a liar and a fraud. Talk about "despicable characters." Obviously you are one.
shareIt's time to take your medication now, Wyndhawk.
shareI agree with the OP wholeheartedly. Any TV show has to have someone the viewer can relate to. Even a well written show (and this was) must have a focal point, and making Daniel have all his problems put this one over the top from the get-go. Sorry, everyone else, but I gave up on this show before the 4th episode, and was not surprised when it got cancelled. There have been many shows that suffered from the same dilemma, latest being last year's "Smith", and check out ANY Dabney Coleman show. Funny, well written, but you have to like SOMEBODY. And Daniel's biggest problem was that nobody seemed troubled by their afflictions (and I am NOT referring to the gay son as afflicted). But breaking the law, using drugs, alcoholism, cheating, stealing, blackmail all being used to the characters' advantage just made this show unpleasant.
"I thought you was dead" - "Not hardly"
I think this show shouldve been a sitcom. It doesnt work so well as a drama.
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I find the OP's remarks completely without merit. Like many of my fellow Americans, she just wants to get up on a soapbox and talk about how she walks closer to God than anyone else, and decide what everyone else can or cannot watch. She might not come right out and say that, but that's what she really wants to say. This typically narrative, linear form of logic that she displays is another symptom of this finger-pointing, self-righteous egocentricity that has paralyzed our country at the hands of the religiously self-annointed. They're the ones who run around town with the bumper stickers that read, "Jesus is my rock, and my name is on the roll!" They're so convinced that their name is on the list that they've got to trivialize it on a bumper sticker. But, I digress.
Like most, the OP can't see that this show was supposed to be thought provoking. That, too, is something many Americans are terrified of ... thought.
Disgusting! Lady, why don't you just admit that this show was a little too deep for you, and that's the real reason you didn't like it? You didn't understand it, or you wouldn't have written what you did. Plain and simple. It was a sublime show, and a little too clever for American tastes.
Action is the enemy of thought.
OP, you clearly never saw a single episode of this series. You're just trolling to portray yourself as a victimized Christian (you're neither of those).
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