<p>I kind of think it was very realistic for Alex to be the only one arrested. In America, if you are a young guy who looks like Alex, you have a very good chance of being the one picked out of a crowd for an arrest. Both scary and sad, but true. After your arrest, if you look like Alex, you have a very good chance of not getting off and instead going to prison.</p>
<p>Well, that’s true. ^^^^ And perhaps there were repercussions for the family that we didn’t see and pressing charges against Alex is on way to make them look like a victim.</p>
<p>Did anybody else think forty yr. old Sarah looked really old when sitting in the car kissing her twenty-eight yr. old school teacher? </p>
<p>I think Max looks way too old for the age he’s supposed to be playing too. </p>
<p>As someone who has had some experience with teenagers attending an underage drinking party, I can say that in real life, the kid who hosts the party while the parents are away gets in a lot of trouble. S2’s friend got multiple charges against him for providing the alcohol to a dozens of minors. His parents were not charged with anything because they were out of town and had no idea what was going on.</p>
<p>I thought it was funny that there seemed to be no reaction to the fact that there were several high school under age kids drinking in this house. No reaction from Adam and Christina either when they heard Haddie was drinking?</p>
<p>I assumed that the party house was different family from the kid that got punched. Yea, makes no sense that police would ignore a bunch of drunk teens.</p>
<p>I thought maybe I’d missed something about where the parents were/why the police were called/who called the police. Was that made clear at some point? I did have a phone call during that part of the show so I could have missed that. The arrest happened at the party, though, so how could that have happened if it was a different set of parents? The whole thing just doesn’t make any sense.</p>
<p>Someone should send Jason Katims a link to this thread!</p>
<p>Why did Sarah use a flashlight in the rat scene as opposed to turning on the lights? Christina is awfully zen about the business venture. I have never liked Crosby and liked him even less when he was so resistant to ruling out an allergy. I liked Adam going to bat for his daughter’s boyfriend, but I was hoping he’d threaten to bring charges for serving his underage daughter alcohol, thus getting them to back down.</p>
<p>They did drop the charges, right? I got a phone call and missed the ending with the TV on mute, but the Haddie hug looked like good news. I agree with you, I would have brought up that issue!</p>
<p>I gave up on Parenthood in the middle of last season but tonight I turned on Suburbia - it’s obvious that no one in charge of that show has any idea what people in the suburbs of NYC or the Northeast in general are like. Terrible, stupid show.</p>
<p>mimk-I do not watch this show often, but saw last night’s episode. I thought same exact thing about the flashlight.
The show has gone on so long that there are too many sub-plots and they are not well-executed and details do not hold together, actors are aging beyond their roles, story-lines are getting cliche and far-fetched.</p>
<p>p.s. where I live, in the 'burbs, the police break up many a HS drinking party, but never seem to press charges…- it is pathetic. just saying</p>
<p>What is the supposed location of Parenthood? I was assuming Southern California because it doesn’t seem like anyplace I know of around here, but I do live in a small town. A coffee girl in a law office? I was quite envious of that! Oh, yeah someone mentioned the Mission project, which is only done in California, right? </p>
<p>It’s a huge big deal in our area if kids are caught drinking underage so I didn’t get the casualness of that either. </p>
<p>I liked the date coaching by the Grandpa.</p>
<p>Very much agree about Max being way too old for the character he’s playing, but he’s such a good actor. Why didn’t they just make his character a year younger? He looks like his real age of 14 and he could easily shoot up a few inches in a year’s time.</p>
<p>Even with it’s flaws though, I like this show. The dialogue is good and the characters are well written. Besides, there’s nothing else good on Tuesday nights at that time!</p>
<p>I like the show too. We watched it with Comcast “On Demand”, so no commercials - a real treat!</p>
<p>Last year we found out about the show late in the game. So most of our viewing of it was On Demand. It’s great to be able to watch the next show when intrigued. But alas this season we might not have the patience to wait.</p>
<p>It reminds me of Berkeley CA…???</p>
<p>Definitely set in Berkeley</p>
<p>It’s near Berkeley, I don’t think it’s actually in Berkeley, although I could be wrong. But that general area.</p>
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He did. </p>
<p>He was just very subtle about it. But he definitely brought up the the point about underage drinking – just said enough to drop a very broad hint. Enough to get the message across without needing to spell it out.</p>
<p>…or opening himself up to a charge of extortion.</p>
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I don’t know about California, but pre 9/11 it used to be pretty common in some NYC office buildings to have a coffee cart which went floor to floor. I never saw one go into an office. Usually, they’d be in the hall outside. They’d ring a bell and the coffee addicts would come running out. They had snacks too. </p>
<p>It may be coincidence, but I haven’t seen one since 9/11. I think it seemed like too easy a way to avoid building security.</p>
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No, and you’re right that it’s a bit of a hole in the plot. It’s hard to believe that any of the kids at the party would have called the police unless the host had been hurt a lot more badly than it looked like he was–the #1 imperative at a teen drinking party, after all, is not to get busted. More likely Alex would have just been told to get out and not come back.</p>
<p>I got too busy to watch last spring and missed the last three shows and then the first two of this season. Fortunately, I had some days off this week recovering from minor surgery and used the enforced couch-potato time to catch up. Wow. They’ve really been ramping up the drama. Car crashes, sex, violence, pregnancy, firings, business ventures, literary debuts, real estate deals, May-December romances (well, OK, June-August romances…). </p>
<p>It’s all done with the usual brilliant craftsmanship both behind and in front of the camera, and I’m just as addicted as ever, but it does make me kind of miss the earlier days of the show when it seemed like they were able to do more with less, plot-development-wise. Does anybody else feel that way?</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>It seemed to me the police happened to show up right then. Maybe the neighbors called because of the party.</p>
<p>NBC ordered two more episodes for this season bring the show up to 18. I hadn’t realized that they didn’t get a full season (~22 episodes usually). Hopefully it will allow them to expand on stories and relationships. </p>
<p>Even though there have been some small plot holes I still think Parenthood is one of the more ‘real’ shows on TV. It is one show I always like to watch because it is not overly dramatic and ridiculous. Also of course Lauren Graham and Peter Krause ;)</p>