Watch GG in a "Choose Your Own Seasonal Canon" sense.
Aw, it's Doctor Who with a teenager.
As for the teen/school factor, the daughter figures prominently, but her life at school is way down on the list of things they devote screen time to, luckily.
Yaaaaaaay.
It's such a shame Ed isn't on DVD. I loved loved loved the first season. It was exactly what you're looking for: quirky, bizarre, and full of writing!love. Sigh.
I got the impression from reading about it that the creators were basically like, "We totally didn't rip off the setting and part of the plot of NX. We'd...never heard of it before. Yeah. Totally." But yes, I've heard many good things. It needs to be on DVD.
(Oh, and in looking it up on Wikipedia recently, I followed the links from that article to Sabrina Lloyd (who seems to be in everything lately) to "Numb3rs" (it physically pained me to type that), which is Rob Morrow's newish show. The bio linked from there mentioned that he recently had a daughter whom he and his wife named "Tu." SUCH CRUEL PEOPLE.)
The important thing to remember is that you've got to approach the show with very low expectations and a tolerant sense of humor.
I don't think my expectations go low enough for most of the shows you try to push on me...
(And try starting somewhere other than the first season. I recommend the fifth. Backstory isn't too hard to catch up on - the details are insane, but all you need is the gist of it.)
I think I've tried an episode in every season from one to five. They all seem...lackluster.
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Date: 2007-01-03 10:32 pm (UTC)Aw, it's Doctor Who with a teenager.
As for the teen/school factor, the daughter figures prominently, but her life at school is way down on the list of things they devote screen time to, luckily.
Yaaaaaaay.
It's such a shame Ed isn't on DVD. I loved loved loved the first season. It was exactly what you're looking for: quirky, bizarre, and full of writing!love. Sigh.
I got the impression from reading about it that the creators were basically like, "We totally didn't rip off the setting and part of the plot of NX. We'd...never heard of it before. Yeah. Totally." But yes, I've heard many good things. It needs to be on DVD.
(Oh, and in looking it up on Wikipedia recently, I followed the links from that article to Sabrina Lloyd (who seems to be in everything lately) to "Numb3rs" (it physically pained me to type that), which is Rob Morrow's newish show. The bio linked from there mentioned that he recently had a daughter whom he and his wife named "Tu." SUCH CRUEL PEOPLE.)
The important thing to remember is that you've got to approach the show with very low expectations and a tolerant sense of humor.
I don't think my expectations go low enough for most of the shows you try to push on me...
(And try starting somewhere other than the first season. I recommend the fifth. Backstory isn't too hard to catch up on - the details are insane, but all you need is the gist of it.)
I think I've tried an episode in every season from one to five. They all seem...lackluster.