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Death, racism, obesity and professional difficulties may mark the lives of the Pearsons, but episode after episode, the ideal state is one of increased togetherness, and the storylines in the ‘ 70s and ‘ 80s consistently remind us that even flawed parents can teach lessons or introduce traditions that have applications decades later. NBC’s current hit This Is Us is nothing if not a story of the complications of a blended family, albeit one with complications the Bradys didn’t face. Sometimes fights lasted a while and tears were shed in sadness or anger, but the core dramatic unit of Gilmore Girls would always be the communal breaking of bread or sharing of coffee.
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Gilmore Girls is not a show about a mother and daughter who want to find ways to avoiding spending time together, and while Lorelai’s (Lauren Graham) reconciliation with her estranged parents is an obstacle she’d rather avoid, the series was always on the side of keeping Emily (Kelly Bishop) and Richard (the late, great Edward Herrmann) in the picture. I suspect as long as we have technology allowing us to produce and watch television shows, storytellers and audiences will still find some value in the idea that no matter the obstacles, parents and children can come together to eat meals and teach each other valuable lessons over the course of 30 minutes or an hour.įlorence Henderson, Perky Mom on 'The Brady Bunch,' Dies at 82 So you can watch The Brady Bunch and, in that respect, it doesn’t feel additionally dated at all, because it’s as out-of-touch with 2016 as it was with 1974. The Brady Bunch aired from 1969 to 1974, but amidst a celebration of reformatted domestic tranquility that probably didn’t exist, it rendered things like Vietnam or the Civil Rights Movement or feminism or the erosion of faith in various national institutions invisible. And knowing the sexual hijinks and secrets behind the show has never impacted my ability to be amused by The Brady Bunch as a reassuring, silly fairy tale of dated ‘ 70s family life unaffected by anything that was actually going on in the country at that moment. Just as none of the Brady Bunch stars ever did anything that moved above The Brady Bunch on their résumés, none of the dilutions of the franchise had any impact on the love for the original series, nor did the movies satirizing the show.
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I really enjoy both Shelley Long/Gary Cole movies, but I can also step back and ponder: What point did they think they were making? Did they think they were cracking some hidden code in discovering that the chippery, chirpy Brady clan wasn’t all that realistic? That their over-eager naivete wouldn’t work in the regular world and that it didn’t translate into modern life? That they wore funny clothes and had funny haircuts? Duh. And when it inevitably came time to make Brady Bunch remake movies, the tone had to be satirical. Audiences lapped up all the behind-the-scenes dirt made available by actors eager to prolong fame that never superseded the ABC sitcom and its endless specials and reunions and spinoffs. That earnestness has always made The Brady Bunch an easy target for mockery and subversion. The relatively seamless reconstitution of the Bradys and the Martins was over-idealized to the point of absurdity, but it still offered earnest hope. The nuclear family had always been TV’s gold standard, but The Brady Bunch was a blended family in a moment in which more and more Generation X children were growing up in domestic situations that had lost all hope of being like the Cleavers. Premiering in 1969, The Brady Bunch affirmed so many traditional family and sitcom values, but it also captured a shift in the American family dynamic that was possibly more prescient than reflective.Īs divorce rates were only beginning to soar, The Brady Bunch was all about taking fractured families and offering an image of hope and togetherness.
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It doesn’t matter that The Brady Bunch may not make many lists of the “best” TV shows of all time, because several generations (and counting) would surely place it among the most “beloved” shows of all time, which was far closer to creator Sherwood Schwartz’s goal.
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