Parenthood has Potential

Last night was the premiere of Parenthood on NBC & I tuned in for it...yes, I skipped Millionaire Matchmaker to watch this show.  First of all I want to say that I really enjoy the cast though every time someone called Lauren Graham "Sarah" I was confused because she is & always will be Lorelei Gilmore...maybe it's because the characters she plays are always Lorelei-ish, you know, quirky, humorous, honest, and when needed a mom who rules with an iron fist.  It may have had something to do with the fact that I watched 2 hours of Gilmore Girls prior to watching this show but that's beside the point.  It was good to see Peter Krause again, while I get to enjoy Michael C. Hall on Dexter I haven't liked anything that Krause has been in since Six Feet Under.

Dax Shephard plays Dax Shephard...this guy has made himself famous by playing himself just with a different name in every movie/TV show he's ever done, he's like a white Tracy Morgan & it's kind of annoying to me.  Aside from all of that, the rest of the cast was good and I hope will start to gel more as the season goes on.  When I saw commercials for this show it appeared to be a good old comedy but it's not...bring on my disappointment.  While I'm ok with it being a dramedy I would have preferred that it be portrayed that way rather than getting me all excited to be laughing my ass for an hour only to get a few giggles out of me.

Of course we have a story line with a kid with "issues" that are looking to be Asperger's at this point, we've got the troubled teen kids of Lore, sorry Sarah, and then we have Coach & his wife though Coach has condoms in his desk drawer so I'm sure that will mean something sooner or later...like an affair.  I don't remember Coach's name on this show so I will refer to him as Coach until it sinks in (kind of like the Lorelei thing).  I have a feeling that with all of these characters things are going to get jumbled or forgotten kind of like Sarah's daughter & her niece were arrested for something involving pot but nothing was explained.  One minute Krause & Monica Potter are at the school talking about their son with the issues & the next minute they are at the police station with Sarah picking up their daughters...no explanation of any kind was given & that bugged me.  Then Sarah's son is gone & he's run away to hang out with his dad (because he saw him mom in her underwear in the kitchen with a dude in his underwear), a musician loser so she went & picked him up & brought him back so basically...way too much stuff was shoved into an hour but I think once they get their groove the show will be great!