Netflix, Streaming Videos & DVDs

NV Whino

(20,886 posts) Mon Jan 16, 2012, 05:33 PM Jan 2012

Brothers & Sisters ***

2006 5 seasons
Sally Field (in an Emmy-winning role) plays the matriarch in this ensemble-cast drama series that focuses on the disparate adult siblings of a Los Angeles-based clan drawn together by the death of their father. Calista Flockhart plays the conservative TV pundit sister in a family that includes a younger brother who served in Afghanistan and two siblings (Balthazar Getty and Rachel Griffiths, with an Emmy nod) who have remained in the family business.

Cast
Dave Annable, Calista Flockhart, Rachel Griffiths, Sally Field, Balthazar Getty, Ron Rifkin, Patricia Wettig, Matthew Rhys, Kerris Dorsey, Maxwell Perry Cotton, Luke MacFarlane, Rob Lowe, Sarah Jane Morris
Streaming details
Available in HD

If you have or know of a dysfunctional family, you will sit through 5 seasons saying, "Oh yeah. Been there done that." Still, this is a series with an excellent cast and probably worth spending some time with. They seem to have been ill prepared for having been cancelled at season 5, but when you start repeating story arcs, it's time to quit. And how many illegitimate children can one family have before it gets boring?

5 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Brothers & Sisters *** (Original Post) NV Whino Jan 2012 OP

Tried to like it agent46 Jan 2012 #1

Yeah, but looking at Rob Lowe for four seasons was worth it NV Whino Jan 2012 #2

Maybe you haven't made it to the season with the French Guy? Merlot Jan 2012 #3

Oh yeah NV Whino Jan 2012 #5

I also kept watching hoping it would get better Merlot Jan 2012 #4

agent46

(1,262 posts)

1. Tried to like it

Reply to NV Whino (Original post)

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 06:16 PM

Jan 2012

I watched three seasons of this hoping it would get better. Good production values. Good actors. Plenty of California wine. I finally stopped watching it. There's a limit to how much I can care about the trite problems of rich pretty white people. The drama never soared. Not once. Oh well.

NV Whino

(20,886 posts)

2. Yeah, but looking at Rob Lowe for four seasons was worth it

Reply to agent46 (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 06:41 PM

Jan 2012

He has to be the most perfect looking human being I've ever seen.

Merlot

(9,696 posts)

3. Maybe you haven't made it to the season with the French Guy?

Reply to NV Whino (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 22, 2012, 11:39 PM

Jan 2012

Agreed Rob Lowe is nice eye candy, but the French Guy (can't remember his name) is about as close to perfect as they get.

Watch for the swimming pool scene...

NV Whino

(20,886 posts)

5. Oh yeah

Reply to Merlot (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 23, 2012, 12:59 PM

Jan 2012

The French guy is sexier, but for sheer perfection of composite parts, Lowe wins in my book.

Merlot

(9,696 posts)

4. I also kept watching hoping it would get better

Reply to agent46 (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 22, 2012, 11:47 PM

Jan 2012

By the third season I was yelling at the tv...if I hadn't been recovering from surgery would not have lasted through the 4th season - which was pretty bad.

There was a lot of good parts of the show, like you say, good production values, and Sally Field can act circles around anyone. It's a credit to her how much I disliked her character. And loved that it had a gay guys story line.

Oh well, so much good, so muddled.

Reply to this discussion