Flagrant-Baronessa
As above. I don't know why, but I've found myself watching three consecutive episodes of this show and not because I find it particularly good or entertaining, but because it airs right before my favourite (and only) show. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.Furthermore, I am completely convinced Related will be cancelled sometime next year, mostly because Laura Breckenridge is one of the worst actresses I have ever seen in TV history. She is a squeaky little mouse that overacts and whose voice is so high-pitched I am occasionally forced to change the channel momentarily to save myself the embarrassment and headache.Lizzy Caplan (from Mean Girls) also overacts, but she has comic talent, so it often works for her. I love Jennifer Esposito and think she is the light of this show, but very rarely does she succeed comically. The cast are good-looking enough, but this detracts from any realism the show was aiming for.Related is not witty; it is not original; it is not well-acted. The creators are the people behind Sex and the City and Friends, but Related lacks the edge and originality of the former and the comedy and dynamics of the latter.
christyfulton27
I have watched every episode of this show and I really like it!!And believe me it takes a lot for me to like a show this day and age. A show doesn't have to be like Friends or Sex in The City for it to be a hit. In fact I like it because it's not like those shows. If everything was the same don't you think life would get a little boring. Please give related a chance. The Thanksgiving and Christmas episodes were very moving. I think this show sends a good message to it's audience and I would like to see it stay on air for a while. It talks about how children deal with the death of their parents and I think could really shed some light on the subject for some people. I also think that the relationships that the four sisters have are very real, just because you have three other sisters as well doesn't mean that everyone has the same relationship that you do. This show sheds light on many different subjects that I feel should be on TV right now. Come on give it a chance, watch it once and you will get hooked. If you like Gilmore Girls you will love this show, the sisters carry on just like Rory and Loreli!!
dghende865-1
I, too, thought very little of "Related" when I watched the first episode, but the 2nd and 3rd episodes were a lot better, with funnier dialogue and more interesting story lines, and since then, the show has become one of my favorites. Lizzy Caplan (who played Lindsay Lohan's Gothic best friend in "Mean Girls" - and I actually like her better in this) is hysterical, hostile and vulnerable all at once, and I think her career is going to take off. There is something very real about her, and she reminds me of Kate Winslet. She's the reason I kept watching after the first few episodes.The other sisters have risen to the task as well. The greatest transformation has been Jennifer Esposito, who at first appeared to be whining too much. However, over the season, this capable actress has developed a convincing, dynamic character. She is now balancing her comedy with the dramatic skill that earned her well-deserved kudos in "Crash". This show speaks to me for the same reason that Gilmore Girls garnered my viewership for the past six years. It is a show for and about intelligent, well-rounded, flawed (human!) women. Sex is dealt with honestly but not exploitatively, and the characters dress like real women rather than MTV pinup girls. The problems they encounter resonate with us, from wanting to fit in during college, to trying to figure out what to do once thrust into the "real world", to dealing with painful breakups, to learning the painful lesson that it takes more than love to make a marriage work. And perhaps we all have a bit of each of the characters within us. They have the power to remind us of ourselves as well as occasionally give us insight into some of the other women we know. I hope that the new CW network will realize as I did that "Related" can fill a TV-void that many female viewers may not have realized that they had. Now they just need to keep working on getting the background music right...
missygoldstein
This show was advertised as "from the creators of Sex and the city and friends" so I was hopeful. It did not deliver. The show is about 4 sisters living in NYC. They're all different in their own way. It is about their lives and this dumb thing called "the phone chain" where they all get in touch with each other via "phone" (insert laugh track). The show is infused with the most irritating background music throughout which I suppose is to instill certain feelings you should have in each scene because the dialogue/plot alone is not enough.The show is sort of a soap opera I guess. All the sisters have their own little dramas, but coming from a family of 3 girls I see their relationships as artificial, and that goes for the dialogue as well. I didn't find this show to be happy, sad, funny, dramatic or anything. I just thought it was disappointing. Not to spoil anything, but of course at the end of the show (which I imaging will be the same trite ending to all episodes) there was a big gushy hallmark moment.Definitely not "friends" or "sex and the city". Not even close.
