This show isn't particularly unique or special, but with one major exception it's made up of solid and watchable elements. The weak spot is the main character, Coop. There's nothing about the character that isn't clichéd: he's a mumbly, whiny, "talented, sensitive," disaffected phlegmatic teen. Of course he's a writer whose output frames the action (even more irritatingly than usual). The actor is okay, I guess, but the character was dull decades ago, and the intervening examples have exacerbated its dullness. Plus this guy looks like his hair is eating his face. The sensitive "folky-alternative" music that overlays several scenes each episode is a more modern cliché, but no less annoying. Everything else is fine, especially the actors playing the parents.
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