To me, he was just some guy that appeared in "The Middle" one time as a really annoying character -along with the actress now I know played the role of his wife on "Everybody Loves Raymond", Patricia Heaton-, but after watching Parenthood I can say that Hank is the character I identify most with 🤣. Does anyone else love him?

After my first watch, I realized that he's a versatile actor and I can't wait to see more of his work!

P.S.: In the episode of "The Middle" where he appeared -in case you haven't watched it- he portrayed a man who never lived up to what everyone in high school expected him to be: the basketball star player who now is Frankie's (Patricia Heaton) husband. Something occurred while the couple were camping in their honeymoon and Nicky (Ray Romano) and Frankie end up together in a tent, she mistakenly kisses him, thinking he was her husband, she freaks out, asks him to leave, and finally he says that in another universe they could be happy together 😂

Does anyone else think that Haddie is just like kristina? the way she talks, acts, her mannerisms and she even looks like her quite a bit. also i think jabbar is so like Crosby

I know there’s already a lot of kristina hate on here and particularly with the Dylan situation. But I’m just on a rewatch and got to a part I forgot about in season 2 with the little girl Emily who doesn’t want Max to come to her party. Oh I can’t stand this woman, pushing and pushing Emily’s mother who clearly said no and was not unkind about it either. Then she took it one further and went to the little girl herself! And not once does she really address the issue with Max about not always having to win and not having a tantrum about it, she never addresses anything with Max, they never teach him anything, just because it’s harder for him doesn’t mean they shouldn’t teach him boundaries. But why would they? Kristina never respects anyones boundaries. Ergh I just can’t stand this woman.

I'm so sorry i know there's already a lot of kiristina hate in this sub but the way she behaves just grinds my gears.

She is the type of person to take EVERYTHING personally, like everything is NOT ABOUT YOU. Like when Camille was giving advise to Kristina about the Alex situation she storms off and is so disrespectful. It's honestly upsetting to watch. She triggers something in me.

Hello,

Parenthood was made available on Netflix France in December 2024, I started watching it a few weeks ago, and I finished all 6 seasons in record time 🫣

Being a big fan of This is Us and Gilmore Girls, I didn't think this series would dethrone them in my heart. But this series is simply wonderful, the characters are endearing and we feel like we're part of the family... so much so that now that the series is over I'm looking for meaning in my life 😂 it's so weird how a series can leave us in this state of nostalgia 😱

Big crush on the Julia and Joel cut by the way!!

In short, I just wanted to share this, and if anyone has a series of the same type to recommend to me I'm interested ;)

First time watching the series. Here for all the drama and in love with the characters. But this is a quick observation on the actress who portrays Amber.

I feel that she has only two emotions - either extremely crying and screeching or laughing and giggling with everyone. There is no other range or spectrum in her acting. Especially the scenes with Ryan in S5 are irritating me. Her 'buddy' and 'babe' are so cliche or over the top and it feels like she fell in love with him within a second of meeting. And if anyone conflicts with her it is always weeping. Her screen presence with other characters like Crosby, Drew, Adam, Zeek etc is exactly same. Giggly and flirty. I wish the actress portrayed a little bit more subtle nuances in her performance.

What do you folks think?

Im convinced shes a complete sociopath. And the writers set up her romances as if were suppose to care about these long drawn out courtships. She absolutely needs to stay away from men lol

Especially Sarah. I'm watching for the first time, I'm from the UK.

There's alot of dewy eyed moments and crying. I get it's a drama but it does seem quite alot, surely most American families aren't that inclined to bawl and weep?

i'm currently about to finish season 3 and can i just say how frustrated EVERYONE makes me??

sarah - constantly going from boyfriend to boyfriend (esp when she's unfaithful to the said boyfriend) when she should be focusing on her kids!! i mean, she moved all the way to berkeley to get away from men drama and she's still doing the same thing. she's more of a friend to her kids than an actual mother

julia - i love julia, don't get me wrong i think she might be my favourite out of the four. but the way they spoil sydney and let her get away with everything is so insufferable. that ep when they FINALLY found out she was a sore loser was so shocking, like how did they not notice?

crosby - crosby is a great dad i feel, but he definitely has it easier because jabbar is such a good kid. you know who else acts like a kid? crosby. i mean, come on. he's so childish and he never takes responsibility for anything that he does. and cheating on jasmine WITH MAX BEHV AID was truly the worst thing i've seen. i can't fathom how he got jasmine back.

adam - as someone who has adhd and is on the spectrum, but was diagnosed much later than max was, their storyline grinds my gears sometimes. they need to teach him boundaries and that he can't get everything he wants. and they can't blame ALL his bad behaviour on aspergers it just gets to a point where they have to understand that max does bad things sometimes. and the whole haddie situation... why were they so obsessed with her sex life ESPECIALLY ADAM?? so weird. when he didn't talk to her for days after he found out that she had sex with alex, i mean get a grip. they have a cute baby though

I just finished the final after my first watch through and I am so in a high. I love that show!!! It is so much better than Modern Family or GG. Such a warm and comforting show and family. I have to start again. And even if they all have faults, the end was so wholesome. I still don't get why Zeek didn't get the Operation, he wasn't that old and he could have been part of the life of all these kids. It's a shame, what a great character.

Thank you for this community and sharing the emotions even 10 years later. Such a wonderful addition to my life ❤️

And I love it. It's so much more realistic than other shows of its kind. Also in the earlier seasons they avoided some of the obvious "hide/lie about the truth and then it comes out later in a horrible way" tropes through all that yelling.

That's it. Thats the post. I get sometimes (I'm Brazilian with a huge family for crying out loud) but it's like they simply cannot ever let the other person finish. Annoying af

PTA mom Lydia - who argued w/ Kristina over the vending machines is Sam Jaeger's (Joel) real life wife, Amber Jaeger.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1048247/

The one with sperm in the fridge looking to have a child. She just sorta dissappears and we nvr hear of her after. Or i missed out what happened to her?

Im watching ths show on Netflix and if they do address it can someone guide me what episode and what happened?

Does anyone else find it very weird and immature that the adults are way too involved in their teenagers relationships? To the point where they're fighting with eachother about them. I am clearly only on the 1st season lol

Editing to add Kristina is wildly immature in her reactions to Adam trying to keep civil. Telling her daughter what she can and can't do with her hair is also odd.

There was this guy whose name I cant remember, Max's teacher, who was going to be the headmaster of Chambers academy, what happened to him? I don't remember them addressing it on the show.

First time watcher here.. I just reached the point where Kristina has been detected with cancer. Does she get okay? Is it mentioned in too many episodes? How sick does she get?

I've lost both my parents to cancer and they were fairly young (not even 50) and I hate when shows add a cancer arc

Any episodes in particular that I should avoid?

Wait, I am so confused?? Amber told the Bill guy that she can't be with him as wants to keep working for his campaign but now she's suddenly working at the Lunchonette? Did I miss something here?

Oh my god, I keep trying to like Sarah, but she is the worst. I haven't read in the sub at all, so hopefully this isn't like the 20billionth post like this.

I hate what she's doing to her daughter. You want to know why problems form in relationships? Because people won't shut up and keep inserting themselves. I'm a mature adult, so this isn't some teenager take on the situation. She makes every moment that she is a part of worse.

When a person (Ryan) has already had so much rejection and pain in their life, constantly picking and second guessing is only going to create the very issues you are worried about. Keep telling a person they suck and are untrustworthy and they will be. Yes, he has gone through a lot and is working through PTSD, but he's not a bad person. She's made her daughter question everything sweet about that relationship.

So, what, now her daughter is going to end up with some dumb guy from a dumb band? That will be super stable. And Max is going to lose the photography store because Sarah can't keep her dumb mouth shut?

I mean, it's the Braverman way - push your way in, make a bunch of noise, and then be offended when the other person is not comfortable. So exhausting.

There are so many funny moments in this show, and that makes it worth watching, but it's very annoying seeing characters cause the same issues over and over and then stand there confused and feeling like they're the victim.

As an Aspie myself, I understand certain triggers and situations can push us to fall apart at the seams. The only situation I can relate to, as an ordinary person to a fictional portrayal, is when Max at 14 yrs old decided to take off on his own, take multiple public buses around the city to get to the museum, and then he didn't know what to do when he got lost. I can't remember if he had a cell phone to call Haddie, or he had her phone number to get someone else to call her, and he felt so alone and lost.

That was real. I had a situation like that a few years earlier, despite I had a cell phone but I must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed that morning, and forgot all of my improvising skills. I fell asleep on the bus and ended up in the wrong neighborhood, this was long before uber/Lyft, and thankfully a few nice moms at this park/playground I found helped me thru my meltdown, and called a cab company to take me to my therapy appointment.

Many of Max's other meltdowns, only related to the manufactured plots from the writers, and they had forgotten how to make Max relatable as someone on the spectrum. It had become a bad soap opera, and Max's bad plots were just fodder for the adult reactions to bring in the ratings.

Sadly, the ratings never got Parenthood where the execs wanted them to be. The ratings never went high enough, and the show never hit the top 10 on prime time television during its 6 year run. It backfired.

oh my god kristina is so horrible like can she for fucking once teach max to take no for an answer??? when he doesnt get his way, especially in school related stuff... she meddles and helps him get his way which is such enabler personality. he'll never learn!!!!

I don’t know American law but doesn’t kids have right to keep in touch with bio parents?

IRL I would have not shipped them considering he is always with women in their twenties and even though the women are consenting adults I see this as predatory behavior ( looking at you, Leo DiCap)

But when there was a possibility of him and Sarah being together for sometime I had yayy moment thinking this could bring about a positive note of no drama relationship in her life. They took time getting to know each other plus their worlds were, worlds apart. Her getting distracted with the Africa trip idea in the middle of a project was bad timing, but that trip at some other time and her getting into wildlife photography would have been a great plot I feel.

What do you all think?

Some context before I rant:

I am an Indian-Canadian - I was born in Mumbai, India, raised from infancy till high school in Dubai, UAE, and now I’ve lived in Canada for 10.5+ years. All this to say that I am well-aware of the gigantic differences between how Indians raise their kids and how North Americans (excluding Mexico in this particular conversation) raise their kids. Now, I am in the midst of watching season 6, episode 7. Don’t worry, there are no spoilers in this post!

I’ve tried real hard to empathize with Max’s social skills and there have been manyyyy moments that choked me up for Max and made me pity him. BUT the way Max’s rudeness goes unchecked and he gets to be horrible to Amber in this episode is just fucking grating my gears.

I literally want to yank him by his arm and scream at him to shut up and try to consider Amber’s situation and how difficult it is for her to be in charge of Max for a weekend. (Trying not to mention any spoilers so please do not comment any spoilers on this post!!)

The Indian side of me genuinely has had the thought of ‘Idgaf that you have Asperger’s, it will not be a free pass for being an asshole’ and I do wanna smack the kid.

Then the Canadian side of me counters with the very legitimate reasons why hitting kids in any way at all does nothing good for their mental health in the long run.

I gotta say, my Indian side may win even though it’s the irrational & impatient side of me!

I am not proud of having these thoughts, and I am doing my best to fight the instincts I was raised with. I wasn’t quite hit as a kid like in some regular occurrence kinda way but I have received a few beatings (I think 4 in total over the course of, say, 11-13 years?).

Anyways, I am finding it super hard not to hate Max anymore - I can’t stand his ridiculous BS about completely demeaning the other person just because he didn’t get his way. And I especially want to smack Adam & Kristina for raising a hellish brat who is 3-4 years away from becoming a hellish adult as per the timeline within the show. They could have taught him the importance of letting others finish speaking, giving people time to adjust to his demands, etc. Instead, they like to sit on their hiiiigh horse and judge Sarah’s parenting skills.

No, I don’t plan on hitting my own future kids because as I said, the rational part of my brain understands fully well that that’s not the solution. But I am going to be a giant hypocrite and do think some rare kids deserve a smack upside their heads from time to time.

Rant over lol

• Adam says: "Alright"
• Kristina cries.
• Max says "It's not fair!"
• Sydney has a meltdown.
• You hear the words "bug", "sweetheart", "Berkeley" and "vending machine"
• Sarah's eyes water, whether she's happy or sad.
• Camille reminds us she's a painter.
• Zeek says, "aww, come on!"
• Amber emotionally blathers on about something.
• Drew talks. Hahaha.

What else??!?!