Let me start off by saying that this is the first television series that I've watched through and through in almost 5 years. It was captivating from the start. However, in each episode you are almost guaranteed to find yourself getting more and more tired of Maura's three children. All of them are caught up in so much utter selfishness, doing extremely immature and irresponsible things with their lives and not seeming to care how the consequences of their choices affect others. While Jeffrey Tambor's character is very likable and natural, the others are just so over the top in their quest to portray the modern generation.
We'll start with Maura's oldest daughter, Sarah. After reuniting with her college lover (a woman named Tammy), she immediately rekindles an affair with her despite already being married with children. She ends up leaving her husband and children behind for this woman and trying to take over the job of changing and remodeling her childhood house so she and her lover can live in it, despite objections from her other siblings. She's an intoxicated, marijuana induced spin on a 40-something woman who's jumping out of the nest into an irresponsible life plan that maybe a 20-year old something with not so much to lose would be better off making.
Then there's Josh, Maura's son. He seems to be the most responsible one of the three siblings, but he still hasn't settled down and basically sleeps with a different woman every night. This has devastating consequences, as the woman he does supposedly love ends up getting pregnant and getting an abortion, and he hasn't got a healthy enough relationship with her to deal with that (since he's so detached from sleeping around so much probably).
Finally there's Ali, the youngest sibling who SERIOUSLY needs to grow up. She's supposedly the embodiment of the new millennials; a lady who doesn't have a job, can't handle money, has no clue what she wants to do with her life, and can't get out of the irresponsible partying phase from her teenage years. Her naivete just comes off as stupid and foolish.
You just wish that these kids would stop being so damn selfish, because it really takes a toll on Maura who is going through a big transition in his life into becoming a completely different gender and has no one there to stand up and really be there to support him. The overwhelmingly self-centered children was really the put off for me. While I think that the series is good, the selfishness was depressing and frankly rather overkill.
We'll start with Maura's oldest daughter, Sarah. After reuniting with her college lover (a woman named Tammy), she immediately rekindles an affair with her despite already being married with children. She ends up leaving her husband and children behind for this woman and trying to take over the job of changing and remodeling her childhood house so she and her lover can live in it, despite objections from her other siblings. She's an intoxicated, marijuana induced spin on a 40-something woman who's jumping out of the nest into an irresponsible life plan that maybe a 20-year old something with not so much to lose would be better off making.
Then there's Josh, Maura's son. He seems to be the most responsible one of the three siblings, but he still hasn't settled down and basically sleeps with a different woman every night. This has devastating consequences, as the woman he does supposedly love ends up getting pregnant and getting an abortion, and he hasn't got a healthy enough relationship with her to deal with that (since he's so detached from sleeping around so much probably).
Finally there's Ali, the youngest sibling who SERIOUSLY needs to grow up. She's supposedly the embodiment of the new millennials; a lady who doesn't have a job, can't handle money, has no clue what she wants to do with her life, and can't get out of the irresponsible partying phase from her teenage years. Her naivete just comes off as stupid and foolish.
You just wish that these kids would stop being so damn selfish, because it really takes a toll on Maura who is going through a big transition in his life into becoming a completely different gender and has no one there to stand up and really be there to support him. The overwhelmingly self-centered children was really the put off for me. While I think that the series is good, the selfishness was depressing and frankly rather overkill.