Televisionary has a an advance preview of tonight’s premiere of Parenthood on NBC:
The series revolves around a sprawling Berkeley, California family who, amid frequent squabbles, come together seemingly several times a week for a series of rowdy and bustling family lunches and dinners.
Presided over by Craig T. Nelson’s Zeek and Bonnie Bedelia’s Camille, these family gatherings are meant to display the range of emotions and behaviors that every family manifests: the little slights, the seething injuries, the results of growing up and growing old together.
Read the whole post for details. My take: I loved the 1989 movie starring Steve Martin, but this version seems an awful lot like Brothers & Sisters to me. I like the casting of Peter Krause and Lauren Graham, and I’ll definitely tune in for at least a couple of episodes to give it a fair shot, but based on this I can’t help feeling I’ve seen this show before.
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is apparently NBC’s answer to Brothers and Sisters. Founately I love big family scenes that always end in shouting.
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