Jon Robin Baitz has created one of the finest family dramas in the history of network television. This marvelous multi-drama is as well written as "The Sopranos" and "Hill Street Blues." And Sally Field gives a truly transcendent, brilliant performance as the aggravating, lovable, hip, square, completely believable matriarch of a huge family. Field has managed to top her own best--well, maybe not "Norma Rae," but everything else she's ever done. What an actress! She is joined by a superb ensemble including top New York stage actor Ron Rifkin and class actresses Calista Flockhart and Rachel Griffiths. The scripts by Baitz and others are literate, touching, funny, and more, and the direction gives the audience credit for intelligence, a quality in rare supply on network television. This one enters the pantheon!
Review of Brothers & Sisters
