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Olivia Holt appears to be a good person but here even her personality can't save this badly written Thanksgiving/Christmas mess. Early on she's in a shower clearly in her underwear, yet it is described as being nude. That's the highlight, as the storyline consists of the requisite virgin getting her convictions ignored by a conniving bad boy who enjoys manipulating her away from the bland boy she loves. Not a film that'll be rerun often.

Badly acted, directed and scripted, but a guilty pleasure which not only features a powerful heroine but an anti-drug message. The TV series "KC Undercover" twice in different episodes spoofed this film-- and that was a Disney Channel presentation!

If the show had stuck to its female pitcher storyline, and not pulled away from the main star to feature a bunch of men behaving badly, than the series would've worked. The actress had the makings of being a bigger star than what Hollywood has offered her so far.

This is a favorite show in our house, and we're all looking forward to season two. Yes, it is similar in many ways to many other shows but more classy and not so down-moody. More Alice Lee!! And Ciprian is a bit charmless....

To all those who felt the show was more rightwing than it was, and the series was mocking both left and right here, we have this episode to set things straight.

Excellent summation of an important topic, though it putters out in the end.

The episode the first time and every time thereafter just looks naive by treating the addiction of vaping as nothing to be concerned about, as the series does with wine (both the adult lead actors own wineries in real life). Yet wine got a few bad reviews on the series, but not vaping?

The character of Eve has always been the most interesting of the characters on this show, a series which has many strong characters. How Kaitlyn Dever plays her is simply magnificent, and it must be a nearly impossible challenge. Eve is a beautiful, even sexy character who somehow isn't as interested in sex as her two older sisters. Maybe she has a delayed maturation problem. Additionally, she has a constant woe-is-me attitude toward life, unlike her middle-sister, who generally sees positivity in even a rustic boyfriend and a nearly impossible-too-succeed home business. In this episode Eve confronts her inability to confront her emotions, a big breakthrough for her. Dever should have won an Emmy for this episode.

First thoughts. Okay the actor Tim Allen can be rather mean, ornery and well right of empathy for good causes, but this show had potential that we'll never see, as it's been cancelled. Here you have a family of three sexy daughters (in various ways) and even a sexy mother, and how dad deals with all four should have provided enough laughs for a decade at least. Rather, it seemed to have drifted away from that logical premise oftentimes enough. Daughter Eve's sexual awakening got muted, her more tomboyish friend Cami shoved aside by the writers rather than her needs developing (she's the one adopted by the black family), and the two daughters were growing increasingly marginalized, though one-dimensional Kyle was getting pushed to the fore for some reason. He's the dumb redneck inexplicably in a two-way relationship with the metropolitan city-girl. The racial humor was awkward, but that was the joke. The worst character was the grease monkey Jay Leno, the best was the boss Alzate, the know-it-all who doesn't know a thing. While Tim Allen's character could be seen as both wide-horizon (he traveled) and narrow-minded (big Republican devotee), it was Alzate who seemed confused most of the time and needed others to decide things for him. Thus this is one of those "I could've written it better" TV shows where the writers seemed confused on direction, and character development.

I wrote that several years ago. Some more thoughts....

Oh, he's doing John Cleese in "Fawlty Towers"! I get it now. When it debuted some compared it to "All In The Family," but I think Mr. Fawlty is a better illustration. Additionally I didn't like the actor changes either but I can live with them. Still think Kaitlyn Dever is the best thing here. Her career alone will take off as long as she keeps her eyes on the thespian prize and not drift off as so many promising stars do.

The writing is spot-on, and I feel too many viewers/reviewers are not getting the jokes, that they are listening to the surface tension as if it's a Disney sitcom. You got to pay more attention people. Yes, it's from a conservative viewpoint, but the main character of Mr. B oftentimes sees his beliefs questioned and even shot down. On occasion he'll even make the effort to explain his thinking with an example. And of course the Left does have issues which are easily lampooned. The highlight is when in not one but two episodes Tim Allen discusses how regular TV serves the Drug Culture/PC Movement and won't provide equal opportunity for opposing wits. And the government allows this, but regulates truckers' radio?

My biggest problem with the reboot is that the fine, complex lighting done in the first go-round (stop and notice the sunlight source) is now rendered dark and hard-to-see, as if the household is in austerity mode and had to turn off most of the lights even on cloudy days. Done to mock those pandering Drug Culture shows, or for FOX to make the show cheaper?

In short, it deserves your fullest attention. And its own college course in Media Arts!

For a Disney show, the four leads here are above average (I'm thinking of the ill-acted "Andi Mack"). I think they have more natural talent than the usual Teen Nick or Disney show. The problem is, the writing is terrible, and borrows from particularly "iCarly" too often. It also seems to be down-played in its marketing, rather than the over-hyped "Andi Mack". One hopes that this series, with its two Asian American stars, outlasts the heavily-funded Asian American "Andi Mack." An update from its third season. The two lead actors, Madison Hu and Olivia Rodrigo are starting to smirk at their own jokes, yet I think it's Ms Rodrigo who is the better actress here. But it's the mean girl who is the show's breakout star. Devore Ledridge singlehandedly carries the series. Everything is perfect. Her timing, her voice, her body movements are exceptional. Why isn't she in her own series by now?

The first season was one of picking out who had the worst haircut (everybody but Buffy). The second season is well under way and one can pretty much settle on how the series only has three actors of any ability (Lilan Bowden, Sofia Wylie and Emily Skinner), while everybody else seems to just accept a lower level of competence and offer only script recitation.

And it's stupid to have a junior highschooler, who hasn't even held hands with anybody (though a kiss went badly-- been there), misunderstand his feelings for his buddy and go on to misinterpret them as homosexuality (an act predicated on, well, past experience having sex, by definition, and something he hasn't even begun to do yet with anybody).

And why do many Disney shows depict the blonde girl as either the mean one or the insignificantly dumb one? So much for girl empowerment! The network oftentimes show guts, such as introducing gay characters in the seventh grade (I met my first one in my sixth grade class-- in farm country), but typically won't put anybody except Southern Christian blondes in the lesser companion/adversarial roles. And that sixth grader I knew was unabashedly busy in his pursuits! Disney won't show that sort of quail hunt I'm sure!

Update: This latest season is slightly better than what went on before. I'm really liking Emily Skinner and her character. Both Ms Skinner and Sofia Wylie are exceptional. Still not liking the writing, although not terrible not interesting either. The star seems very near-sighted and actually lost in the role, and Lilan Bowden is like a race horse who's not allowed to run. I wish Disney would expand her role and allow her to run with it. The males are all stereotypically bland and dull. End this before is slips up and embarrasses itself!

Disney Channel surprised many with the introduction of "Girl Meets World" and especially "K.C. Undercover," when network and cable series were in a yawning, cliché rut, chasing trends. Here you have a teen in highschool who isn't a behavioral disappointment with her oppositional mood disorder dissing common sense. She's smart, she's athletic, her government trusts her with important secrets as she's good at thinking on her feet, and she can't dance (a reference to the star's previous show, a dance competition, where she placed second, actually). The parents aren't cut from the same cloth as all the other one-dimensional, ineffective parents in TV heaven.

Some episodes do seem padded out (the retirement home episode, for one) but all generally are watchable even during rerun season. Ernie, the brother, is the most cliché character, being he's her opposite in every way, though he's learning to become a successful ladies-man.

Hopefully the biracial Ms. Coleman will embrace her bi-racialness one day and bring that to the forefront of her public statements, in that biracial people are torn between their white friends, who pull them to the Caucasian culture, and their black friends, who pull them to their black culture, while being biracial is its own culture altogether and should be celebrated, not ignored and abandoned, an ambassador to both sides as it also could be. Of course, as an actress others will try to push Zendaya into the drug culture moreover, unfortunately, so this lovely, classy, multi-talented entertainer has a lot of stress factors to deal with I'm sure. This fan hopes she as successful as her K.C character in traversing the minefield of show business!

UPDATE. The long-awaited last season is proving to be a big disappointment, with padded-out scenarios and disinterested acting. The one with the crying baby managed to displace the old folks home episode as worst-ever! The only highlight of Season 3 is seeing Ms Coleman in a black Homecoming Dance gown slit to her thighs, and showing off those fabulous legs, an acknowledgement that the actress is more beautiful than how she presents herself at movie premiers, award ceremonies and gala balls. Can't wait to see her in "A While Lie" coming soon to the big screen.

SECOND UPDATE. Is the show over already by Thanksgiving 2017? The clip show beat the crying baby episode as the worst-ever. Third season is getting to be a big disappointment. "Stuck In The Middle" had a better clip show, and that's not a great show normally.

IN CONCLUSION. How they dumped the second half of the final season on a two week window with little advanced notice! It seems all abandoned the project long before it ended. At least "Hannah Montana" "Jesse" and "Girl Meets World" stuck with it until the end. If Miley can be dedicated enough to care right until the final show, then the cast and writers and producers here should have too. The final season rates five stars from me, and the final ten episodes rate a mere two or three. Sad. The series showed such great promise, had a great start, then imploded. Why?

I think early reviewers were too critical of this show. I believe it has more depth and better acting than most TV shows. I think it's even superior to than the original Boy Meets World! Smile-bringing Riley is the quirky, bohemian one, all awkward legs and arms yet optimistic to a fault; outsider Sabrina is the boisterous, fearless (and sometimes sad)one, pretty and sociable and someone who delights in poking both her classmates and family friends to get them out of their comfort zones; others are handsome Lucas: the sensitive, religious one, he's usually just as confused as every male teen (being he's a year older and thus more mature)to this new concept called girl culture; then there's the eager-to-please intellectual Farkle with the ability to remake himself if he chooses, his comical girlfriend who's smarter in some ways yet immature socially, and Isaiah, the new kid who seems eager to make friends yet is terrible at it. There is even the oddball tall girl, short beau, which I had in my junior high school!

Okay, the parents are not very realistic, but at least mom the lawyer is seen studying sometimes. The gimmick was always that teachers were never like Mr. Feeney(hence the humor)or Corey Matthews. But there is an air of magical mystery to these kids' teacher's intentions sometimes as was present in the previous series. Just when the kids thought they pulled one over and got everything and everyone under their control, goodness and niceness and not selfishness they learn wins out, contrary to their expectations. The old-show visitors sometimes work well (superintendent of schools, Farkle's dad) but usually don't(Squirrels). The plots are usually solid, very naturalistic yet going for the punchline too. Once in a while a nonsensical speech is made, and apparently the writers thought it understandable.

There is talk that it may be canceled before it's time (love to see them graduate from HS) because of escalating actors salaries or the busyness of its two main stars (one's a singer, the other is an outspoken-- if perhaps gullible-- critic of gender issues). Rumors differ. However, I'd love to see it continue but without major revision into awkwardly uncomfortable drama (as has also been rumored). Still, the female version is better than Boy Meets World!!!