I love how vocal this show is about social issues and the fact it has so many diverse and interesting characters! But every episode I find myself skipping through at least 25% of it because it's either Callie having completely unnecessary intimate scenes, the made-up love triangle (which no one cares about) or screentime is wasted on her "lost in thought" about something that adds zero value to the story.. Mariana is meant to be the other main character but she gets half of Callie's screentime, while actually being charismatic and having something interesting to say. Give the rest of the characters the screentime they deserve and people might be more interested in this show!
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janesonthego14 March 2019The Fosters was awesome on many levels, and after 5 episodes my list of favourite shows now includes Good Trouble. I guess we all want varying things from the dramas we watch - so long as the stories are character driven and allow for personal growth, and the main characters are likeable, I don't mind spending time with one or two people I would avoid in real life. Some of Callie and Mariana's new loft mates are a bit abrasive, and their workmates are ****s, but without conflict there would be no story. At the beginning of the pilot episode Callie and Mariana are in the same outfits and UHaul they were in at the very end of The Fosters.
Cierra Ramirez is exceptionally talented, has great comic timing (a gift), and never murdered a line in 5 seasons of The Fosters. She's the perfect person to play Mariana - set up by the writers with a propensity to stretch the truth or delude herself, and with no respect for anyone's secrets but her own. These flaws often are what keeps the stories moving. She makes up for these unforgivable traits by being fierce, whether protecting someone she cares about or cutting through other people's BS. Her breakthrough moments and her sense of fun are highlights, for me.
No, Callie has never seemed promiscuous or needy to me, but then I've never understood why anyone would expect most people to become attached, engaged and married happily ever after to only one person in a lifetime (unless the story is set in the 16th century or something). I'm in my 60s and happy for these characters to act their age - gosh, I might even learn something when one of them makes a mistake.
The pace of the storyline seems less frantic than The Fosters.
Another thing I don't understand is reviewers who whinge and moan about the show's "liberal" values. Well, duh! If they find it all so unbearable why on earth don't they watch something else? It's like smacking yourself in the eye so you can resent having hands.
The setting and sets for this series are just yummy, and the art theme is a bonus. The sequence in 01x05 involving the 1957 photo from Arkansas (see... no spoiler!) is typical of the occasional treats I've come to expect from these prducers. My only wish is that, as we are getting a lot of flashback sequences, writers would find a way to make this slightly less confusing. As on The Fosters, I sometimes find myself wondering, not where, but when we are, in a story. -
flashlightreview8 January 2019After the successful TV show "The Fosters" came to an end, this new show brings Callie and Mariana to Los Angeles. As you may know, the finale of "The Fosters" already jumped a few years forward and introduced Callie and Mariana as recent graduates who were planning on starting their careers in L.A. .
While this new show might try to present the lead characters in a more mature light, the initial steps of both Callie and Mariana in their new professional setting are still cluttered with some of their old habits. After their degrees and life-forming years at university, you can't really estimate how advanced Callie and Mariana could behave because many of their previous remnants from "The Fosters" show are still in their daily lives - like dating/boys or their lively dynamic with their mothers. One aspect, their unbound sisterly love and support for each other, is still as strong as before and carries over their belief that family always comes first.
Whether "Good Trouble" will be able to allow Callie and Mariana to mature beyond their foster years remains to be seen. The production quality, the new setting and promising story line are certainly a great start. -
Barry016920 January 2019I really wanted to like this show because I enjoyed The Fosters, but I'm struggling. Good Trouble? More like Bad Decisions. Callie and Mariana continue to make one bad decision after another and they have surrounded themselves with a whole menagerie of people who do the same. They are supposed to now be a law school graduate and an MIT graduate. If they made decisions like they continue to do now while they were in college, neither would have graduated or landed their jobs. The writers are letting them down by continuing to write them as the teenage girls they were rather than the women they should have become.
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cynequinoxy16 February 2019I've never watched The Fosters and this show is more than amazing. It became my favorite show from the first episode
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ginanavani23 January 2019Great spin-off to the Fosters (which was one of my favorites). I didn't expect to like the spin-off, but thought I'd check it out. I've been really impressed all around, and am already feeling sucked in and ready for the next episode.
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sarah_serotonin17 March 2020I would like 5 more seasons please!! First impression "great another teenage drama" I ran out of everything to watch while in quarantine and gave it a chance. Instantly feel in love! Dives into black lives matter, trans equity, and so many more subjects that are important.
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lovelightvibrations19 January 2019This show is hot! The cinematography is super sexy and keeps you captivated. I can't wait to watch more.
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texbard23 July 2019I liked The Fosters mostly for its portrayal of a family led by two committed, married lesbians, living their lives. The focus was not just about them being gay. I will give Good Trouble kudos for continuing in covering the same types of important social issues and broad diversity of characters as The Fosters did. But Callie and Marianna? They have had zero character growth in 6 plus years of programming. They NEVER learn from their mistakes. They have made one bad decision after another, then when trouble follows, they lie or deploy avoidance/denial tactics. Every time. At the end of the day, all is forgiven and there are never any real consequences for years of bad choices. Success continues to be handed to them in spite of themselves. Surely they can be written as more complex and adult than this, after obtaining law and engineering degrees. I wanted to like this show, but have remained only to support the Alice/Joey storyline.
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mugemmell3 April 201913 is not enough! I have never been urged to write something here before, considering i have been a member of imdb for more than a decade and being a real movie and tv buff, it is weird. But, this tv show is amazing. It embraces family, friendship and social awareness on such a level that i wish every second of it that it was real and it was my life. I really want to see everyone growing old and having a full life for the rest of my life. Keep 'em comin'!!
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carniassada11 March 2022I thought The Fosters was a far superior show to this. That being said, this show is enjoyable, but please do away with the lesbian comic storyline. They are not funny,( not one of them has uttered even once funny line, ever) and all they do is sleep around and stab each other in the back. The other running storylines are good, but please give these girls a break and give them something good to do, because none of them are comics. I cringe every time they start to do a set.
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johnnanicholas25 January 2019This show is amazing. The cinematography is beautiful, the cast is phenomenal in their roles, and the story lines are perfect for the world we're living in.. There are too many people complaining that they were fans of The Fosters, but are disappointed with the new show because it's "too different". If you want wholesome, go watch Fuller House, and let the rest of us enjoy this great show. I'm glad it isn't as cutesy as The Fosters was. It's a new show for a new age bracket; accept it, or don't watch.
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matthewawallace5 November 2021It's a good show for the genre, but the way they go back and forth between the past, present, and future with the different scenes makes it confusing as to what is happening when. It's just a weird way to write a show, I could see if it once once in a while but they do it every other scene it gets a little annoying. Also, the show is literally a drama about social justice, and it just seems the writers don't know how to do something else.
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cherold28 September 2020Look, I'm 62, and this series is definitely not targeting me. I'd say it's targeting 20-something women who want to watch spunky heroines overcome odds and have sex. And that's fine, because that's a market.
Even though I'm old, I do like some youth entertainment, like Euphoria or Impulse, but Good Trouble is pretty bubble-headed. I only took a look because I'd seen glowing reviews, but I found it pretty intolerable from the first 5 minutes.
Still, the thing's got lots of energy and cute leads (who look like high schoolers to me because everyone looks so damn young nowadays). So I won't say you should watch it, only that *I* shouldn't watch it. -
juggiemcbuggie10 January 2019Okay so after seeing the preivews for this I was nervous but I gave it a shot and I was quite impressed with the outcome of the show one of the best family dramas of the year so far two thumbs way way up
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senak-134-6378066 February 2019I imagined this would be a more juvenile show, but it's not. It focuses on the challenges of becoming an adult, and life as a whole. Issues on sexism at work, racism, lgbt community, relationship drama are all very well intertwined in the writing of the series. Good job, writers. And the scene editing is very refreshing. Give it a chance even if you haven't seen the Fosters, and if you have, you'll love this even more.
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mahnavabmah15 February 2019Seriously cool spinoff.This is what you always expect and never get from spinoffs.
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amandajames-8630417 April 2019Such a great show hope episode 14 come on hulu soon hope there ever more seasons to I banged watched it. It a great show
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javidan967 April 2019Callie and Mariana were my least favourite characters in The Fosters and they made a show about them :). They always make bad decisions. It's like they are still teenagers. Callie flirts with every guy she looks at like she can't control herself. I don't want to see Callie and her boyfriends have sex in every episode. It gets repetitive. Why can't she take a break? Mariana still doesn't know boundaries. I am a software developer and new guys always start with small things. She doesn't act like someone who have studied in MIT and is in IT sphere. I expected more maturity from them. They also have surrounded themselves with people that make bad decisions. It shouldn't be hard for a software engineer and a lawyer-to-be to find a decent place. But I must say the overall quality of cast and crew are good. Acting is excellent. I hope we'll see more people from The Fosters. I loved the episode with Mamas.
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trimblecali4 June 2019I loved the Fosters but I actually like Good Trouble even better. It's much more mature than the Fosters, which is a good thing. The characters are well written and storylines are interesting to follow. I would recommend even if you haven't watched the Fosters.
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barbdelorme12 January 2019Not all that impressed yet, but then again, I wasn't with The Fosters when it first started either, and I watched every episode of that show. We'll give it a chance.
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coachsls29 January 2019Overall, this is a incredibly refreshing sexy TV show that uses character thoughts via short cut-outs to give greater depth and move the story along in a way similar to This Is Us. Every second is utilized extremely well so don't plan on going to the bathroom unless you want to miss something. At the end of each episode I'm looking forward to viewing the next one and feeling extremely upbeat, two things that most shows fail to accomplish.
Its passionate, groundbreaking, fresh, socially aware & realistically laced with laughs, sibling drama, and emotion. Did I mention the great soundtrack. Nothing is held back when tackling awe-inspiring issues like sexuality, casual sex, body-shaming, police brutality, & affordable housing and other social justice issues.
One show you can't afford to miss & Super Sexy - ET Online Good Trouble is a heartfelt dramedy that will put a smile on your face", Dino-Ray Ramos, January 7, 2019, Dateline 1st Great Show of 2019 - Paste Magazine It's a blast - Refinery29 100% Fresh - Rotten Tomatoes -
ava79217 September 2019Found this show just browsing through here, but so glad I did. Was actually on my 6th episode and then read some reviews and realised that it's actually a part of bigger series and then turned to the Fosters. It was then that things started to make more sense😅 But I am glad I found both the shows, this is really good tv, apart from what people may say I do really like this show. It might not be as good as the Fosters but how can it be, its just a small part of a bigger show so it absolutely can not be the same. But trust me it is good. So glad they keep bringing the other Fosters in the show, its so good to see them again. And I am so glad they decided to keep Jamie in the show. Callie and Mariana are badass but the show does need some good/hot guys too. Well I am only on the 8th episode but Callie and Jamie do have a good chemistry. So let's see how it all unfolds. But I am glad this show is on.
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deckchair-5335716 January 2019I loved The Fosters and the way it finished but I am disappointed in the Callie and Marianna characters. They have had no growth or have matured at all. Callie still jumps into bed with the first guy and acts like she did when she was 17. Makes it hard to believe she has graduated law and now works with a judge. The show was okay but wouldn't be bothered if I missed episodes
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I adored watching "the fosters" It was a lovely and heartwarming show, I cried when it ended (sappy me) I found a commercial a day before "good trouble" aired and was super excited! To see Callie and Mariana carry on (and the cast review shows all the siblings and moms) is amazing. I love a continuation, especially one so soon after a show ends.