I find it quite amazing you never hear about this show more. It was such fun, it had an off-beat approach to humour with sort of realistic settings but with people acting characterishly.
It wasn't dominated by '60s nostalgia but gave this show a warm tone that tries to capture the pathos of friends and family being there when you really need them without the brutality of growing up.
Oliver is sweet and charming and not without his flaws. Adult him is the narrator like Wonder years but I never saw that. It plays very agreeably.
And he does win a lot of them.
The rest of the family are also interesting and when I first saw this aged about 11 I thought of it sort of like the other "Malcolm in the Middle". Except this is nowhere near as depressing or hard to watch.
Memorable fantasies like in Scrubs but funnier are the cherry on top.
Personally, I love the final episode but it's all good. It never had a bad one.
It wasn't dominated by '60s nostalgia but gave this show a warm tone that tries to capture the pathos of friends and family being there when you really need them without the brutality of growing up.
Oliver is sweet and charming and not without his flaws. Adult him is the narrator like Wonder years but I never saw that. It plays very agreeably.
And he does win a lot of them.
The rest of the family are also interesting and when I first saw this aged about 11 I thought of it sort of like the other "Malcolm in the Middle". Except this is nowhere near as depressing or hard to watch.
Memorable fantasies like in Scrubs but funnier are the cherry on top.
Personally, I love the final episode but it's all good. It never had a bad one.