This TV show would be a lot better if someone were playing Judy who knew how to act!
Mark Addy ("A Knight's Tale") is another generic TV dad in another generic TV family replete with an estranged grandmother, a no-nonsense wife (the shudder-inducing Jami Gertz), and children who are more than happy to one-up their parents. Few things about this series distinguishes it in the annals of TV. However, those things that actually do are things that really make a difference.
First of all, there's Addy. He's interesting in any role from Fred Flinstone to a cockney peasant and even to this generic TV dad. His work goes by with only a few cringes. Secondly, there's the occasional guest spots by the great Sally Struthers (Gloria from "All in the Family" and the voice of Charlene Sinclair in "Dinosaurs") as the aforementioned estranged grandmother.
Sadly, though, usually when I end up watching this, it's because I've turned the TV on a few minutes early for "Everybody Loves Raymond." But it wasn't bad, and it ran for four years. In TV World, that's almost a hundred.
Mark Addy ("A Knight's Tale") is another generic TV dad in another generic TV family replete with an estranged grandmother, a no-nonsense wife (the shudder-inducing Jami Gertz), and children who are more than happy to one-up their parents. Few things about this series distinguishes it in the annals of TV. However, those things that actually do are things that really make a difference.
First of all, there's Addy. He's interesting in any role from Fred Flinstone to a cockney peasant and even to this generic TV dad. His work goes by with only a few cringes. Secondly, there's the occasional guest spots by the great Sally Struthers (Gloria from "All in the Family" and the voice of Charlene Sinclair in "Dinosaurs") as the aforementioned estranged grandmother.
Sadly, though, usually when I end up watching this, it's because I've turned the TV on a few minutes early for "Everybody Loves Raymond." But it wasn't bad, and it ran for four years. In TV World, that's almost a hundred.