TV: This Is Us (on NBC and CTV)

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Hey Everyone!

I’ve noticed no one has brought up this show yet even though it’s been on for three years now (Wow how time flies!)

What are everyone’s thoughts on the NBC Drama “This is Us”? For myself, I truly loved the show at first, particularly appreciating the strong father character, Jack Pearson, who thankfully, is written in a way very reminiscent of classics shows like “The Waltons” and “Little House on the Prairie” and to some some degree, the father on “7th Heaven” (I was a huge “7th Heaven” fan back when it was on but as an adult I can now see the errors of the show, including the focus on dating and sex and the heavy progressive tone the show took on in the later Seasons). I do appreciate that Jack is now being portrayed as a pretty good Dad but also as human and not perfect. I also appreciate that the show focuses on the family and how they have problems but are trying to work through them!

Of course the show does have some moral issues. Last Season (SPOILER ALERT) Randall and Beth’s 10 (or 12?) year-old daughter “came out” as possibly being attracted to Girls (though I like that even she wasn’t sure about it and it’s not quite set in stone yet) and obviously Kevin is a womanizer (though this is obviously part of his addictive personality). And of course all the kids have premarital sex. There was also a bestiality joke in the first episode of the series:

https://www.throughcloudedglass.com/2016/09/why-i-wont-be-watching-this-is-us.html

Now I am a bit torn. Though I do appreciate the positive family aspect of the series, I do have difficulty with the problematic moral issues in the show. Unfortunately though, this is about as close as we might get to a family show in modern day TV (even though it is rated 14-A).

Thoughts?
 
A lot of us don’t watch much, or any, TV. I’ve heard the name of this show but it is not something I’d want to watch, nor would all the people I know who do watch TV, who are mostly interested in shows like “Stranger Things” and “Game of Thrones” bother with this show.
 
Could not stand Game of Thrones. I lost interest in Stranger Things.
 
Every. single. episode. is aimed at eliciting a big emotional response. Nope, too manupulative.
 
My 33-year old daughter (who is struggling with infertility in her marriage) watches the show faithfully because it gives her a good excuse to cry for a solid hour. She loves it.

I don’t like shows like this. I hated “Family” way back in the 1980s (or was it the 1990s?). I hated “Parenting” which was in the early 2000s (I think).

I don’t watch TV to see a parallel of my real life! Ick! Boring!

I watch TV to have fun, to laugh, to enjoy a really good story, to hear great music, to see a sports competition (figure skating, football, NCAA basketball), or to learn from Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood how to bake better! (Mary Berry’s Cherry Cake is soooooo delicious!)

But to each his own. That’s the beauty of TV. Some people keep their cable glued to EWTN. If I had cable, I would overdose everyday on HGTV!
 
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Peeps said:
I hated “Family” way back in the 1980s (or was it the 1990s?).
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I used to watch that just to marvel at what a complete eejit Willie was. Also, Buddy looked just like my then-boyfriend even though she was a girl. My own family was NOTHING like that show.
 
I only ever watched the scene with the bear in it because the bear actor (Bart the Bear II) is pretty renowned and I wanted to see him act.

I don’t have an interest in GoT myself, I hate fantasy shows in general. I’m just saying that’s more the type of show that interests people I know. They don’t want to watch the umpty-frat show about a family. If they wanted to see that they’d watch an old one from the 70s, 80s or 90s and feel nostalgic. You were asking why no one has brought up “This is Us” yet, in my case it’s because nobody I know ever watches it or talks about it and I don’t watch TV very much myself.
 
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Of course the show does have some moral issues. Last Season (SPOILER ALERT) Randall and Beth’s 10 (or 12?) year-old daughter “came out” as possibly being attracted to Girls
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Every show has to have this now or else it is deemed not “woke” enough, and threats will be leveled at it until the producers capitulate and make one of the characters homosexual.
 
Gotcha Tis_Bearself

I apologize as I probably sounded like I was judging or condemning you.

My apologies.
 
I’ve heard of the show, couldn’t tell you what it’s about. My television watching consists mainly of the news, a good documentary from time to time, some of the old sitcoms on MeTV and Antenna TV — All In The Family, The Andy Griffith Show, Sanford and Son, and so on — and then there was the ne plus ultra, Breaking Bad. And let’s not forget Jeopardy.

I did like Seinfeld back in the day — when you think about it, it was essentially a latter-day minstrel show lampooning boorish people who only think of themselves and have no faith or transcendent values. Certainly nobody in that show was held up as a role model. And just to get this out of the way, that is not an anti-Semitic comment — while all four actors are Jewish in real life, only Jerry was obviously Jewish on the show. Elaine and George were nominally Catholic, and Kramer was, well, ambiguous.
 
I stopped watching when characters began acting against character for no reason. I think the writers just wanted to put characters in situations and didn’t care how they got there. I can’t handle bad writing.
 
edwest211 said:
Could not stand Game of Thrones. I lost interest in Stranger Things
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I couldn’t stand Game of Thrones either but it wasn’t surprising because I didn’t like the books. Got as far as book 3 before tossing them.

But I loved Stranger Things. Season 3 is a hoot!
 
Some of the very special episodes of Diff’rent Strokes were dark.

Gordon jump was a pedophile who targeted Arnold and Dudley in one episode.

The Golden Girls had some very special episodes. Dorothy had a gambling addiction that lasted one episode, and chronic fatigue syndrome that also lasted 1 episode. Rose was addicted to pain killers that lasted 2 episode as well,
 
Do you mean a family show in that the entire family could watch it? Or in that it focused on one family like an old sitcom? I think the show earned it’s tv-14 rating, so I would disagree that it’s for the whole family.

I watched up until the episode where they showed how Jack died. I do think that the show is a bit overdone with maximum emotions, which is why I stopped watching it, the show is definitely a bit of a soap-opera with better camera work. I did think the miscarriage on the show was handled well though, so there’s that.
 
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