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[iamwhatiseem]

It is an older series that we never saw. On Netflix now.
Dark comedy all the way, it displays a completely dysfunctional family without an ounce of morals, but a heaping amount of love for one another, displayed mostly by covering for each other and always having each others back.
It is funny, but it is also damn near soft porn at times. Sex scenes at least once in every episode, they are brief but wide open.
There is literally no moral law broken by the show. It could have been named Despicables, if it wasn't already taken.
But somehow, it works. William Macy as the raging alcoholic deadbeat father - who doesn't like William Macy? And then, well, admittedly there are some hot young nude gals peppered throughout...so for guys.. heh.
Anyway - it is good.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

It is an older series that we never saw. On Netflix now.
Dark comedy all the way, it displays a completely dysfunctional family without an ounce of morals, but a heaping amount of love for one another, displayed mostly by covering for each other and always having each others back.
It is funny, but it is also damn near soft porn at times. Sex scenes at least once in every episode, they are brief but wide open.
There is literally no moral law broken by the show. It could have been named Despicables, if it wasn't already taken.
But somehow, it works. William Macy as the raging alcoholic deadbeat father - who doesn't like William Macy? And then, well, admittedly there are some hot young nude gals peppered throughout...so for guys.. heh.
Anyway - it is good.

It's watchable but based on an earlier British show with the same name. I didn't get into it, there's a feeling of hopelessness that I recall from my own youth growing up in 1960s Liverpool raised by a single mother and no Dad. Life for some people is miserable and very hard, this captures that but I've already lived through it.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

It's watchable but based on an earlier British show with the same name. I didn't get into it, there's a feeling of hopelessness that I recall from my own youth growing up in 1960s Liverpool raised by a single mother and no Dad. Life for some people is miserable and very hard, this captures that but I've lived through it.

I did see that the brits had the show first.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

It is an older series that we never saw. On Netflix now.
Dark comedy all the way, it displays a completely dysfunctional family without an ounce of morals, but a heaping amount of love for one another, displayed mostly by covering for each other and always having each others back.
It is funny, but it is also damn near soft porn at times. Sex scenes at least once in every episode, they are brief but wide open.
There is literally no moral law broken by the show. It could have been named Despicables, if it wasn't already taken.
But somehow, it works. William Macy as the raging alcoholic deadbeat father - who doesn't like William Macy? And then, well, admittedly there are some hot young nude gals peppered throughout...so for guys.. heh.
Anyway - it is good.

Spoiler Alert:

Series ends with a buncha woke bullshit.

You'll probably love it.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Spoiler Alert:

Series ends with a buncha woke bullshit.

You'll probably love it.

Well there was "woke" throughout the series, but not really. Gay people exist, so there is nothing wrong with having one of the 7 kids being gay. AND - at least where we are, half through season 4, they don't try to make a gay martyr out of him like woke would do. The show is all over the sexual spectrum, all over alcohol and drug abuse - they don't leave too much out as far as all of human vices.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

Well there was "woke" throughout the series, but not really.

Right, not really.

Not til literally the last couple of episodes when they started lecturing the audience about how bad Donald Trump was.

Which, BTW, happened to be temporally concurrent with the moment when William H. Macy's wife was caught up in that pay to play higher ed scandal.

But it was oh so vital that the audience knew this decade old show suddenly stood against Orange Man Bad on its way off the stage.

Seriously an embarrassment.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Halfway through Season 5, and it is a bit of a struggle.
They clearly decided to rewrite the characters. Saying and doing things that completely contradict who they were in the first 4 seasons.
The only character that hasn't changed is Frank, but in this season he is not a focus, almost a side character (so far anyway).
IMO - it is lacking the writing of the first 4 seasons.