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... just in time to wait for the new (and final!) season next year along with everyone else.
(And I'm writing about it now because I went to bed early like a sensible person and woke up wide awake two hours later. ಠ_ಠ This is what I get for trying to be a competent adult.)
Anyway, I know I've talked about this show a little bit already, but it continues to be a delight. It's a very sweet big-city/small-town culture-clash sitcom run by a father-son creative team, Eugene and Daniel Levy, who also play father and son on the show; Daniel's sister also plays one of the characters on the show, though not part of the core family. Daniel Levy is gay IRL and the show's main pairing is a gay one (there are also a couple of major het couples - and I give the show special props for having a couple in their sixties with an active sex life - but I'd say David and Patrick's arc is the core of the show in season four and five).
It's definitely got its share of embarrassment-squicky humor, and is probably one of the most sitcom-esque sitcoms that I've ever enjoyed this much -- I mean, unlike something like The Good Place that's nominally a sitcom but doesn't really feel like one, this show is definitely a sitcom. The characters are all very broad and over-the-top in that sitcom kind of way, and anytime I haven't watched the show in awhile, it takes me a little while to get back into the swing of it and stop finding them annoying. But I finished the season wrapped up in a warm ball of love for everyone. I really appreciate this show's commitment to digging down for the humanity in the characters, even the annoying ones, and pushing them to recognize each other's humanity as well.
It's also rare among TV sitcoms for not giving me the screaming heebie jeebies at how the romances are portrayed. The messed-up ideas about relationships that some of the characters hold are clearly supposed to be messed up and something they're trying to unlearn, and I'm really pulling for all of the main pairings in the show. (Even as much of a loser as Roland is, he's good to Jocelyn and clearly very invested in the relationship and in their kids.)
( A few brief, happy comments about the end of season five )
I also finally saw the Christmas episode (okay, this was a little while back, but I'm just now getting around to saying something about it) and I'm setting that part off from the main part because I ended up being really uncomfortable with it in a way this show normally doesn't make me uncomfortable. It was cute and sweet and also massively squicky in a way that I normally wouldn't expect because usually the show is better than this, on this particular thing.
( Some more details on that )
(And I'm writing about it now because I went to bed early like a sensible person and woke up wide awake two hours later. ಠ_ಠ This is what I get for trying to be a competent adult.)
Anyway, I know I've talked about this show a little bit already, but it continues to be a delight. It's a very sweet big-city/small-town culture-clash sitcom run by a father-son creative team, Eugene and Daniel Levy, who also play father and son on the show; Daniel's sister also plays one of the characters on the show, though not part of the core family. Daniel Levy is gay IRL and the show's main pairing is a gay one (there are also a couple of major het couples - and I give the show special props for having a couple in their sixties with an active sex life - but I'd say David and Patrick's arc is the core of the show in season four and five).
It's definitely got its share of embarrassment-squicky humor, and is probably one of the most sitcom-esque sitcoms that I've ever enjoyed this much -- I mean, unlike something like The Good Place that's nominally a sitcom but doesn't really feel like one, this show is definitely a sitcom. The characters are all very broad and over-the-top in that sitcom kind of way, and anytime I haven't watched the show in awhile, it takes me a little while to get back into the swing of it and stop finding them annoying. But I finished the season wrapped up in a warm ball of love for everyone. I really appreciate this show's commitment to digging down for the humanity in the characters, even the annoying ones, and pushing them to recognize each other's humanity as well.
It's also rare among TV sitcoms for not giving me the screaming heebie jeebies at how the romances are portrayed. The messed-up ideas about relationships that some of the characters hold are clearly supposed to be messed up and something they're trying to unlearn, and I'm really pulling for all of the main pairings in the show. (Even as much of a loser as Roland is, he's good to Jocelyn and clearly very invested in the relationship and in their kids.)
( A few brief, happy comments about the end of season five )
I also finally saw the Christmas episode (okay, this was a little while back, but I'm just now getting around to saying something about it) and I'm setting that part off from the main part because I ended up being really uncomfortable with it in a way this show normally doesn't make me uncomfortable. It was cute and sweet and also massively squicky in a way that I normally wouldn't expect because usually the show is better than this, on this particular thing.
( Some more details on that )
