It is a Tuesday morning for the Brockmans, and the children are getting ready to go back to school.It is a Tuesday morning for the Brockmans, and the children are getting ready to go back to school.It is a Tuesday morning for the Brockmans, and the children are getting ready to go back to school.
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In this, the opening episode of this long running and well-loved series, we get to meet the middle-class Brockmam family - catching them on a busy morning at home on the first day of the new school term.
The familiar gentle chaos we will associate them with is present and correct here - it's oldest son Jake's first day at high school, and he's feeling quietly nervous; younger brother Ben is happily hyperactive and quizzing his parents with his usual ridiculously bizarre questions; and young Karen just wants to be a fairy - albeit, one with a nit problem!
Long-suffering parents Sue and Pete (beautifully played by Claire Skinner and Hugh Dennis) maintain an air of calm resilience and respectfulness among all the crazy goings on - and you trust them to make things right by the end.
This episode introduces us well to the very natural, almost fly-on-the-wall feel of the stories - the children's dialogue often ad-libbed by the young actors themselves to enhance the feeling of reality. Young Ramona Marquez in particular is wonderful as youngest child Karen, making for a genuinely charming and endearing centre to the show.
It's an episode that's fun and easy to watch, and anyone out there who is (or has been) a parent to young children will easily relate to the Brockman's imaginatively comical dilemmas. All in all, it's a good strong start to the life of this sitcom where we literally watch the family grow up before our eyes.
Long-suffering parents Sue and Pete (beautifully played by Claire Skinner and Hugh Dennis) maintain an air of calm resilience and respectfulness among all the crazy goings on - and you trust them to make things right by the end.
This episode introduces us well to the very natural, almost fly-on-the-wall feel of the stories - the children's dialogue often ad-libbed by the young actors themselves to enhance the feeling of reality. Young Ramona Marquez in particular is wonderful as youngest child Karen, making for a genuinely charming and endearing centre to the show.
It's an episode that's fun and easy to watch, and anyone out there who is (or has been) a parent to young children will easily relate to the Brockman's imaginatively comical dilemmas. All in all, it's a good strong start to the life of this sitcom where we literally watch the family grow up before our eyes.
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- canndyman
- Jan 3, 2021
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