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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Beginning"
What makes for a superhero story? If your answer is “a bunch of crazy stuff that happens!” congratulations! You could…
No Ordinary Family - Season 1
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Future"
Give this much to No Ordinary Family: the threat of cancellation has helped it realize the kind of show that it wants…
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Animal"
The last time No Ordinary Family went into a lengthy hiatus, over most of December, it had almost as much plot and…
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Love"
Perhaps No Ordinary Family tried too hard to appeal to the masses at its beginning and didn't actually manage to appeal…
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Proposal"
No Ordinary Family hasn't decided what it wanted to be. It's worked as three different shows. The one that it's been…
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Powell"
What kind of show No Ordinary Family wants to be has always been somewhat debatable. I've been pretty certain that it…
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Detention"
Television is an inherently artificial medium. Well, most media are, but television has it worst. The combined…
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Brother"
Tonight's No Ordinary Family was not promising. It was just a handful of episodes ago that we had the sitcom trope of a…
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Friends"
In Which No Ordinary Family Descends Into Self-Parody…
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Sidekick"
So this is what it looks like when No Ordinary Family tries. Instead of intentionally spinning its wheels, tonight's…
No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Anniversary"
We're nine episodes into No Ordinary Family. The premise of the show is such that, in my opinion, we can reasonably…
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Accident"
No Ordinary Family is a conservative show. It's a small-c kind of “conservative.” It's not going to tell you to vote…
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Mobster"
One of the hallmarks of good superhero-based plotting is interesting twists. Sure, you do the occasional,…
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Visitors"
During No Ordinary Family's two-week hiatus, I got into a brief conversation with Twitter Friend of The A.V Club (and…
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Quake"
What kind of show do you want No Ordinary Family to be? I think most of us are at least a little bit disgruntled by the…
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Vigilante"
There has to be a certain amount of bad logic in a superhero story. No Ordinary Family acknowledged as much in its…
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Ring"
I saw one prominent TV critic call No Ordinary Family “painfully ordinary” after the pilot. It was not a sentiment that…
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No Ordinary Family: "No Ordinary Marriage"
Public service announcement: Despite going up against Glee's cultural juggernaut, No Ordinary Family managed to pick up …
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No Ordinary Family: "Pilot"
Who among us who does not like origin stories? They're driving the superhero renaissance, with reboots like Batman…