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Sarah Braverman, a financially strapped single mother, uproots her two teens, Amber and Drew, to move back home. Sarah is greeted by her father Zeek and mother Camille who are dealing with their own marital issues. Sister Julia is a successful corporate attorney trying to juggle work and motherhood alongside her stay-at-home husband, Joel. Younger brother Crosby must suddenly contend with accepting responsibility when an old flame Jasmine shows up and he must re-evaluate his priorities. And eldest brother Adam must relinquish his preconceived expectations about what constitutes a 'normal' family when he and his wife Kristina and teen daughter Haddie learn that their eccentric son Max has been diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome.
It remains to be seen whether Parenthood will be NBC's potential saving grace in their otherwise deflated and presently nonexistent 10 p.m. drama lineup.
Parenthood is a fairly promising ensemble dramedy that shows TV expanding beyond an emphasis on nuclear families to look at broader family systems reaching from ages 5 to 75.
Whether it's an intended joke, an intentional homage or something accidental, its effect is profound: I couldn't help but wish I was watching that excellent show and not this unexceptional one.
Parenthood is so over-stuffed with characters that depictions of the realistic, messy details of family life get squeezed out in favor of broader strokes.
Like the movie that inspired it, Parenthood isn't an instant classic, but it's smart and warm and knowing, and it casts its net so wide that at least part of it should connect with you.