This episode is all about Thanksgiving. The episode kicks off with a young woman mixing sugar and water at the diner, annoying the waitress as she hasn’t ordered anything. It is made clear very quickly that she is apparently another Bechley child. Meanwhile, Julia is in her kitchen preparing Thanksgiving dinner. Roxy walks into the kitchen and tells her that
Read moreThis episode kicks off with the introduction of another Bechley child, Rivka, with her many children running around in her home. The writers again use the tooth tapping habit to transition to Julia at work. Leon calls her, asking if she wants his old skis as he’s decluttering his apartment. Meanwhile, Roxy is back at the gym training Izzy, and
Read moreThis episode opens with another Bechley child making an appearance. Brian hails his first cab in New York so he can see Leon. His tooth tapping transitions to Julia’s tooth tapping. Julia has reinstalled a dating app she previously used, Footsie, whilst sitting in her kitchen. Roxy walks in, still giving her the silent treatment for telling Isaac she dropped
Read moreThis episode finally has us meet another sibling. The episode kicks off with us meeting this sibling. Nate, a general manager of an exclusive and expensive restaurant, is treated poorly by a patron who demands he do something to shut up a screaming child. Nate instead gives the child ice-cream, telling him to enjoy it as loudly as he wants,
Read moreI’m going to try something a little different and review this episode character by character. Julia – As the episode starts with her, I’m going to start my review with her. She is leading a Not Parent Expected meeting at the Institute when Sam’s wife, Kim, storms in telling everyone that Julia slept with Sam and that Sam is her
Read moreThis episode was, I felt, the best of the series so far, and I’ll tell you why. Interestingly, the episode kicks off by focusing on Donnie, a hobgoblin who lost his job at Ripples, the spa the sisters visited in the previous episode. His wife, Loretta, begs him to get a job, but he spends his days eating cereal and
Read moreNow that the pilot has established the show’s premise and characters, the fun can really begin. This episode starts to deal with the fallout of both Leon’s actions and his actions being made public. The episode kicks off with Leon being arraigned and placed on house arrest, with Edie and Tim representing him. Afterwards, Julia tells him she turned in
Read moreThe job of a pilot is to establish the show’s premise and characters, I felt that this pilot did an okay job. I don’t review a lot of American shows (only 5 out of the 31 I’ve reviewed so far are American), when I do, it’s for a specific reason. My reason for reviewing this show, it’s an American remake
Read moreSince for the most part the main characters were split up, I’m going to review this episode character by character. Maggie, Mel and the Tallyman – The episode picks up from where we left off. Maggie is arrested for assaulting the man who harassed her. After she is arrested, arraigned and ultimately released until her court date next week, Kaela
Read moreI’m going to be upfront with my opinion on this episode, I felt it was the weakest one of the series (so far). I know I said this last week, but this episode topped it. The so-called threat of the week, was really a by-product of the Tallyman. While we now know his M.O., other than that and his way
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