Sometimes I just download a show and leave it forever before I watch the first number of episodes in order. Sometimes I am disappointed but not for this show. I always loved Patricia Heating from 'Everyone Loves Raymond' and it was refreshing to find a realistic sitcom about a real family. They didn't need to invent weird situations. They just take the everyday minutia that makes me NEVER want to be part of a family. How do people do it? That is the kind of stress and exasperation that made me light fires in the past. (Honest, I don't do that anymore and if I did you can't prove it anyways) The kid actors are great too. The little one (Brick) whispers to himself because he finds it 'soothing'. The oldest (Axel) walks around the house in just his boxers and the middle girl (Sue) is very sweet despite the fact that she is virtually invisible to everyone at her school and fails at everything she tries. Its nice to see a female teen character that isn't hypersexual and hyperconfidant and just plain old geeky like we all were at that age. She may be a failure but her spirit can't be broken. Sigh, I remember when I was like that. Then the world crushed me like a peanut under a truck tire.
