Is anyone else sorry to see the show come to an end? Of course, it ran its course with the kids growing up, but our whole family really enjoyed it. We watched the finale the other night, which I thought was very well done. I won’t include any spoilers in case anyone recorded and hasn’t gotten around to seeing it yet, but I especially thought the last few minutes was a great send off. I just feel so old because as we were watching I commented that it’s really one of the few comedies on that didn’t rely on sexual innuendos to be good. It was just an enjoyable, humorous family show. I will miss it.
I’ll miss it in comfortable, old shoe sort of way.
I feel sorry for Eden Sher, who created a unique character and will now be so typecast that we won’t see her in anything for ten years, when she’ll turn up in a Hallmark Christmas movie.
She’s sue right?
We liked it a lot. Sue is adorable. It had a very good run and they were smart to go out on top. Reunion movie?
If you haven’t seen it and are going to, do not access this –
They busted that poor snow globe? Day-umn!
It was one of the few shows I watch with my 13 year old daughter. She loves it so much. She cried her eyes out over it because she really identifies with Brick. She said she can’t remember a time she didn’t watch it. She’s grown up with Brick! I’m gonna get teary eyed thinking about it.
I liked the show. I wasn’t mad about it or anything but it was sweet and easy to watch. I like how the dad got softer in later seasons.
I liked the show and the finale, which was very like the finale of The Wonder Years. I was disappointed that one of the last three or four episodes had a scene that was very awkward product placement. Surely they didn’t need the money.
Yes, well said, it was sweet and easy. My daughter is 16 so, she also grew up with it.
I loved the show and thought all the characters were great. I thought it was nice that they gave all the characters a good ending. I especially liked Brick writing the book and that Frankie and Mike never fixed the hole between Sue and the boys rooms and Axle having 3 boys just like him. It was a feel good wholesome show and sometimes that’s what’s needed.
I have loved this show since it came out. I feel like there was never a clunker episode. The kids were great actors and even the secondary characters were cool (props to Brad!)
Never occurred to me that it was so PG and I think that’s great!
I loved their continuity too. Like the wallpaper and Brick’s lawn chair. Good shit.
I’ll miss it. I grew up in a lower middle class family in the Midwest. It spoke to me.
I think she’ll be fine. Sue was a great character and I really loved Sues optimism. Eden is doing a cartoon “Star Vs. The Forces of Evil”. I watched a couple of episodes out of curiosity and it seemed good for what it was. It was hard to picture the character as Sue’s voice.
It would be fun to see her do a serious character.
I loved Brad for much the same reason as Sue. I’m glad they gave him a happy ending too. As it seemed at Sue’s wedding he was there with his boyfriend.
Yeah, it’s nice to have at least a couple shows on like that.
Me too and me too and me too.
I don’t know if it was intended or not, but Sue was the center of the show. Nothing happened without her being affected. She loved everyone without question. She reconciled differences by being a sweet, optimistic person and she grew into an adult without ever giving up on her dreams. In the course of the show, no one would have become the people that they are without Sue.
“Well, you know what? None of this is gonna stop me. Because Sue Heck does not give up.”
And here I thought this thread would be about the Jimmy Eat World song from way back. 
So true, she really was the center, or the middle of the show. It was a great character because she played it well. I mean, her optimism and sweetness could’ve gotten nerve wracking week after week, but IMO, it never did.
When she’s not mugging, she’s a beautiful woman. I think she could have a good career if she wants it.
I really liked her speech in the finale about how she loved being the middle kid.
We watched it from the beginning, and mostly liked it. Some clunker episodes, but that’s to be expected. Lots of gut busting laughs along the way, too.
But like The Americans, it really is a good show about unlikeable people. Axle is really an asshole, and the way Frankie freeloads is almost as bad as Rita. Plus, she’s a horrible parent. Mike doesn’t win any parent of the year awards, either, nor does Grandpa Big Mike. And Sue Sue is in for a rude awakening if she ever gets involved with someone that wants to take advantage of her. She’ll never see it coming. At least
Though (unlike in the Simpsons) I did enjoy the characters growing and changing. And the continuity of jokes over the years. I’m glad they had the ending they did. I thnk I’d like to go back and watch some season 1 eps again. That might be interesting!
Though someone needs to tell the Hecks about this thing called Interstate highways. Especially about I-70. Were they planning on taking back roads all the way to Denver?
I wish they could have had Darrin in the finale.
Wait a minute. There’s something wrong. Axel’s punishment was to end up with three kids just like him. Frankie pointed out that Rita became likable and a good neighbor after her kids were locked up. Frankie and Mike were so content after the kids moved out, they didn’t even patch the wall. And Sue got a storybook ending, but I don’t recall any mention that she went on to have kids.
This show was a lot more sinister than we thought.:eek:
It’s Idiocracy! One Axle begat three more, (and so on, and so forth, and what have you…) and no more Sues or Brads.
eta: I noticed Brick had a wedding ring at the book signing. Pleasepleasplease let it not be Cindy. Gah!
Nope. This thread is very annoying to me because every time I scroll past it that damn song by those people I never heard of which plays constantly on the radio these days plus is in a commercial too gets into my head. That song is catchy. . . too catchy.
I watched some episodes in the early seasons and liked it quite a lot, a fine cast and it hit that sweet spot of being likeable but not overly sentimental. I lost touch with it but I may return to it on streaming.
There was a nice pieceabout the show in Vox a few days back.