Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

mountaingal1978 This was an excellent family drama and should never have been canceled. Season 6 was set up to be great and then it was canceled. If Will and Grace could be brought back after all the years it was off the air, B & S could be brought back, too. Loved the natural chemistry between Nora and Brody. Bring the show back.

SnoopyStyle Kitty (Calista Flockhart), Sarah (Rachel Griffiths), Kevin (Matthew Rhys), Tommy (Balthazar Getty), and Justin (Dave Annable) are the adult children of Nora (Sally Field) and William Walker (Tom Skerritt). The Californian family owns fruit business Ojai Foods. Nora's brother Saul Holden (Ron Rifkin) is the financial officer. Kevin is a gay lawyer who eventually marries Scotty Wandell. Kitty is a conservative radio host who returns to LA to start a TV show. She leaves her new job for war hero Republican Senator Robert McCallister (Rob Lowe). Justin had gone to fight in Iraq following 9/11. Nora blames Kitty for Justin returning broken and drug-addicted. Sarah struggles with her marriage to Joe, her kids, and her work at the company. After William's sudden death, she and brother Tommy discover financial mishandling and his old affair with Holly Harper (Patricia Wettig) which seemingly produced love child Rebecca Harper (Emily VanCamp).The first season is a bit unstable. William's shocking death is obviously planned. Skerritt is a great actor and a devastating lost. It would have been nice to have him built up the character for a few more episodes before his death. There are other changes that kept the show off-balanced. At first, Kitty has a great liberal foil but that large part of the show is abandoned to recruit TV star Rob Lowe. It's understandable but the show does suffer from instability in the first season.The other big missed opportunity is the literal concentrating on the five siblings. There should be more on the next generation of siblings and cousins. The kids provide story potential and are arguably the best aspects of the fifth and last season. Paige has a couple of great traditional teen stories and there is the adoption of Olivia. More kids and more of their stories would have given the show character depth.This is a dysfunctional but loving family. They are often self-sabotaging. They can't keep a secret. They argue all the time and have cross-talking phone calls. All of this arguing and melodrama do wear the show down a bit. It needs more uplifting moments. It needs more joy. That's not to say that this is a downer but it does need more of the higher notes. Overall, the great cast is compelling and the family's unbreakable bond is always at its center.

wbateman001 Don't even read the reviews of these idiots. To review this show negatively based upon a belief that it pushes the 'homosexual agenda' or portrays the Iraq war in a negative way is less about the quality of the show than it is about the quality of the reviewers themselves. If you too are small minded, bigoted, and somewhat lacking in intelligence then sure, don't watch this show. But if you want to enjoy a programme that so beautifully, and often painfully, depicts modern life then go ahead, take a seat, and enjoy.This is a truly superb show that articulates the multi-faceted lives we lead in a way that captures the viewer, draws them into the family, and offers you the chance to share in their joys, sorrows, good times, and bad.

Aron Goh Up till about the fourth season, this show was absolutely phenomenal. Though some plot lines were overly dramatic, like along the lines of a soap opera, the familial relationship was really the heart and soul of the show. I have to praise the handling of Kevin Walker's storyline. Usually, when shows have gay characters, these characters are often token characters that don't often have much impact on the story and often, sadly, are rarely seen around. Though this can to a certain extent be said about Scotty, the Kevin Walker storyline was excellently handled. The Scotty, Chad, Jason story lines were cute, romantic and really seamless, making it feel very normal. It wasn't overtly dramatized and was definitely handled very well. Kevin Walker remains my favorite character from the series, along with Scotty, as their relationship was the most real. The handling of gay relationships in the show is the best out of any show on the air thus far. From the fourth season on however, the story felt forced and I felt the writers were adding disaster for disaster's sake. The addition of Ryan was very, very poorly handled. It felt like the writers added him in during a brainstorm and did not fully think the character through. They already went through something similar with Rebecca and I felt that it was forced. In all, please, please watch the first three seasons. Its fun, addictive, dramatic, witty and really very good. An excellent show.