I think I'm just not as into TV anymore.
I liked it. I especially liked the Ray Romano / Lauren Graham scene. I thought it was cute and realistic and funny.
But the only time I almost cried was at the end when Sarah visits Amber and talks to her about her wedding. Those girls have such good chemistry, you almost feel like they really are in real life talking like that with each other. And it made me think of my mom because if she watched it last night, she was probably watching that scene and crying.
I feel like my mom would be pretty excited to help me plan a wedding, but I hope when that happens she will feel really glad and confident about the man I choose to be with.
Oh and where was Joel last night? I feel like they are too overtly setting up the jealousy drama of Joel and Julia with this new guy Julia's becoming friends with. It reminds me of the first season or whenever it was when Joel was volunteering for kid stuff with that one woman, and Julia got jealous. That plot line made more sense though because they worked that character in slowly and Julia was always in the episodes as well. So to all of a sudden have Joel not even be in an episode (especially when he just got a new job we want to hear about), and this random guy Julia meets before school just instantaneously gets to take up the whole episode with her, it makes me a little annoyed, like, Excuse me you can't just bring in characters out of nowhere and make them leads, they need to earn it a little more, you know?
Also there were a couple things that felt a little over the top and not as realistic as a normal Parenthood episode. First with Julia and that guy being crazy nazis about "green lunches," and then spending all that time with the recycling after? I just really didn't believe any of that was actually happening, or the way the guy talked to that one kid, or the way Victor got mad at his mom for being embarrassing. It all just felt a little contrived.
Then with the new campaign manager for Kristina. I like Jurnee Smollett, and I think she carries the part well, but the way she just gives herself the job in two seconds and acts incredibly, overly confident about it, I don't know. It sort of works if she really is that much of a political hotshot, but I wasn't completely buying that it would have happened exactly like that.
I liked the scene in the restaurant with the Crosby's. It was a little over-the-top too with the way everyone was complaining and the manager asking them to leave, but it was sort of believable, and the way Crosby responded was believable to me because it reminds me of my brother and how he would have acted in that situation if people were complaining about his baby.
I'm still wondering where Haddie is, especially since they show Drew back from school all the time. I know Haddie's further away, but STILL. Are they ever going to have her back? It's making me really sad.
And I miss Mark a little, but I'm over that triangle, and I'm glad Sarah is not a whoring adolescent these days. I'm starting to like her character again.
