caustic325
This is a reaction to all the horrible reviews on this site. If you're watching this show for "gripping drama" or a realistic portrayal of modern family life, you are doing it wrong. Watch it as the comedy that it is and you will have unlimited joy and pleasure from these 11 seasons of gold. After I watched the weed episode in season 2, I was hooked. It scratches an itch that I didn't know I had! Bravo!
Armand
the Camdens world.complex universe, basic moral lessons, nice characters, unrealistic conflicts. a nice, sweet series for entire family. nothing serious, nothing in wrong place. only situations who may remember the teach of cartoons or the classes of a teacher who do not desire be more than the perfect old fashion model for his students. a series full of children and teenagers but so clean than it can be invisible. sure, a film about family of a religious leader must be far of indecency or extravagance but the price of Red Riding Hood story type is not just the rating but credibility. inspired option for Friday evening for old people, its target is the young people. but this is problem of director/scriptwriter. short, clean adventures, moral lesson, a kind of fun.
K M
This show has been a real source of healing for me. I grew up in a highly abusive household, particularly emotionally so. The parents in this show set a healthy set of boundaries, and do their best to enforce them via relationship. You can see the parents struggling through their own imperfections to parent, but deal with them honestly the best they can. When their own "honesty" isn't so honest, it's usually brought to light, sometimes over a period of time.I don't find it "religious" at all, as other reviewers have commented. Religion suggests a set of rules, regulations, without relationship. This show has relationship to the hilt. Sometimes the parents are overly involved with what their kids are doing. I wish my parents had been more interested; the only way they were was to find out what I was doing "wrong", and never failed to tell me how bad I was. These parents do it primarily out of concern and love. It does get addressed by the kids when the parents are sometimes overly so, etc. and the parents were usually able to hear what the kids were saying, so I see the dynamics of healthy relationships. One trademark of health in a person is the ability to say "I'm sorry", and/or "I was wrong" - you see this over and over here. It was totally refreshing. It's the parents' jobs to install morals in children. The trick is to do it as honestly as possible with the willingness to admit your own faults; and this show does it beautifully. Neither the kids nor the parents were perfect, and I found that refreshing. You can see by the longevity of the show that it was a terrific one. It's served to give me the parenting I always needed in a terribly imperfect world.
charlie charles
Seems there are a lot of sour grapes commenting here. I guess if there isn't enough sex, drugs, swearing and other dark issues in a TV show they don't find it cool. There are families out there that look to the good rather than seeking out the bad. Yep, they fall and stumble like everyone else but they find a way to look upward rather than take the road downward towards a continued path of turmoil. Some go to church and believe in the good of others rather than the worse. So if a show like 7th Heaven comes along and seems unreal and out of touch, maybe your not aware that not everyone follows the same road of dark road for entertainment.
