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Anonymous wrote:that show is just awful. the acting is very very... not good. just bad bad bad. i only saw the first few episodes, so i'm assuming that the show got better? significantly better? i hope? cuz a lot of people seem to like it.

I think the only bad actor is Lauren Graham. Whenever something bad is happening (which is most of the time), she has the same pinched look on her face. I can't stand it anymore.

The guy who plays Adam, though, is great. When he found out his daughter was having sex, I really thought he was going to throw up. DH and I laughed for a long time watching him in that scene! (as we expect our own baby daughter in a few days)

I agree. Lauren Graham is a bad actor. I guess I just felt that the show (at least the first few episodes that I saw) was just very contrived and so freakin' busy. And me and my husband were laughing at the couples reaction in the first episode (sorry don't know the characters names) when their daughter asked them about sex. First of all the couple just seemed stiff and weird... and the fact that they couldn't even deal with their kids question was weird. They also didn't come off as being very parent-like. The seemed like a childless couple who didn't know what to do with this kid asking questions about sex.

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand posts like the PP. It is better for your son to be having sex at a young age? Dealing with a pregnancy, etc.? It's not just our girls we should care about on this front.

Oh get over yourself you bully!
Why can't you just read the PP's post for what it is, and not try to turn into something so freaking cerebral?!

Anonymous wrote:that show is just awful. the acting is very very... not good. just bad bad bad. i only saw the first few episodes, so i'm assuming that the show got better? significantly better? i hope? cuz a lot of people seem to like it.

I think the only bad actor is Lauren Graham. Whenever something bad is happening (which is most of the time), she has the same pinched look on her face. I can't stand it anymore.

The guy who plays Adam, though, is great. When he found out his daughter was having sex, I really thought he was going to throw up. DH and I laughed for a long time watching him in that scene! (as we expect our own baby daughter in a few days)

I also thought Adam was looking in the trash outside his house not a gym bag, which means it's Christina (he'll think it's Haddie--confront her and then they'll both wonder why Christina would hide that--maybe she's worried about having another?).

Unlike the PP, I love the show like many others do because of the fantastic writing and acting. Sometimes it's so close to my life (daughter defying parents to date older boy), it's kind of freaky. Do I need to be living it and watching it on TV? But sometimes it actually gives me perspective on my teen.

Did I miss why Amber only applied to two colleges? Not very realistic, even if it does move the plot along.

that show is just awful. the acting is very very... not good. just bad bad bad. i only saw the first few episodes, so i'm assuming that the show got better? significantly better? i hope? cuz a lot of people seem to like it.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the show but don't LOVE it. I record it and it piles up on my DVR which is a sign that I like other stuff better. I have liked the last few episodes, though. I agree that it's probably Christina who is pregnant and not Hattie.

Question, does anyone else find Julia totally awful? I don't know if it's the actress or the writing but I find her just such a thin character. She just always seems so stiff to me and so not believable...I think it may be the actress, I just find her off putting.

Most female attorneys are...

Gee, that's kind of you to say. I wrote the above about not liking her and I AM a female attorney.

It was just a joke! I was hoping to ruffle a few feathers and was kinda disappointed when no one took the bait. Guess that makes me a troll.

I like Julia's character and think it's in line with a busy, career oriented mom. Although I do hate it when she's walking all over her husband and his career.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the show but don't LOVE it. I record it and it piles up on my DVR which is a sign that I like other stuff better. I have liked the last few episodes, though. I agree that it's probably Christina who is pregnant and not Hattie.

Question, does anyone else find Julia totally awful? I don't know if it's the actress or the writing but I find her just such a thin character. She just always seems so stiff to me and so not believable...I think it may be the actress, I just find her off putting.

Most female attorneys are...

Gee, that's kind of you to say. I wrote the above about not liking her and I AM a female attorney.

Also, the issues Amber deals with are certainly cross-gender. And I want my son to have meaningful, loving sex the first time at a mature age, as well.

I don't understand posts like the PP. It is better for your son to be having sex at a young age? Dealing with a pregnancy, etc.? It's not just our girls we should care about on this front.

I am due with our second in about a month, we don't know the sex. We already have a DS. DH and I were watching parenthood this week and he looks over and says " now I kind of hope it's anyother boy"

I watch the show but sometimes zip thru sections i find tedious and predictable. All the women talk the same and talk over each other especially christina, hattie, amber and ambers mom. I find that annoying and rude but the writers seem to think its charming.

Yes, but her boyfriend is older and likely more experienced and they do seem to really care about each other a lot. I was lucky to have a great first serious boyfriend and when we went down that path it was very nice.

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was in the gym bag that was in the trunk, no?

I thought it was the trash. But it could have been the gym bag, which would make more sense.

Love the show but the whole calling her parents during sex was just a bit too improbable even for TV. Plus that sex was pretty "hot" for someone who had only done it a couple of times. In my experience those first teen gropings were more awkward than sexy.

I thought it was in the gym bag that was in the trunk, no?