1/29/15 11:58PM
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Life is really nothing more than a series of moments strung together in a random order. When you’re in the midst of…
Reviews - Parenthood
1/22/15 11:25PM
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How do you measure a good Parenthood episode? In quality of stories told, or satisfying character moments? In…
1/15/15 11:25PM
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Television shows that have the luxury of planning out their final season get the leeway to do things that might not…
1/08/15 11:28PM
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“How Did We Get Here?,” Parenthood’s 100th episode, is essentially the distillation of everything the show does…
11/21/14 12:06AM
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This has been a strange final season. It started with what felt like a clear mission for a victory lap season, then…
11/13/14 11:11PM
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Kristina? Kristina Braverman? Close the door and take a seat, please, because we need to have a little talk.
11/06/14 11:42PM
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Parenthood is a show that defines itself by its conversations. These conversations are full of many words that form…
10/30/14 12:04AM
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Parenthood has this weird ability to take something that completely shouldn’t work in theory—and kind of doesn’t…
10/23/14 11:35PM
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We’re a third of the way through Parenthood’s final season and the most apt description of the season so far is…
10/16/14 11:33PM
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This was one of those Parenthood episodes that seems almost like a throwaway, right up until the end when it quietly…
10/09/14 11:28PM
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For an episode that is ostensibly about being helpless in the face of potentially earth-shattering news, “The…
10/02/14 11:42PM
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Parenthood isn’t a show that likes to leave things unsaid. Virtually every emotion any character has is expressed,…
9/25/14 11:33PM
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The season five finale of Parenthood was a tremendously satisfying episode of television; so satisfying it easily…
4/18/14 1:50AM
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“The Pontiac” is a “FUCK IT!” finale. By that I mean that it has barely anything to do with the season that preceded…
4/11/14 12:45AM
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One of my all-time favorite lines from Six Feet Under was when someone asked Peter Krause’s Nate Fisher character…
4/04/14 5:53AM
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This week on Who Gets To Sleep With Julia Braverman?, Evan Knight wins the secret war that rages over Julia’s heart,…
3/28/14 1:22AM
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The majority of “Fraud Alert” feels vaguely like Jason Katims walked back into the Parenthood writers’ room after…
3/21/14 12:08AM
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“The Offer” is some solid, vintage Parenthooding. Though many of the stories connect to the season’s larger plots,…
3/14/14 3:20AM
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“Let’s put everybody in a room and have ‘em passive aggressively snipe at each other” is one of the main go-to moves…
3/07/14 5:18AM
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This week, the Bravermans confront their most terrifying foe yet: chairs. Yes, the anti-chair lobby has come to…