Thanks for telling us about the On Demand second episode. I caught the Pilot On Demand about a week ago but liked it so much that I still DVR-ed it last night and saw it. I'll be sure to watch the second episode ASAP.
Toni Collette is an acting goddess and she shows it well in this show. She is funny, heartbreaking, and plain fascinating to watch much like another famous Showtime desperate housewife (Mary Louise Parker). And Collette does change in a matter of second, her on-screen transformation from Tara to Buck is an example of this. Buck was great but I loved her as T simply because she WAS a teenager and yet you could see Tara sort of coming through. Plus, "drugs not hugs" was one of my favorite lines.
She was magnificent as Buck too.
The whole cast is terrific. The kids managed to not annoy me at all which is a big fete for a child actor in my book, especially Marshall's little relationship with Buck was great (I laughed quite hard when Buck called Marshall Doris Day). I hope the show lasts and that Collette gets recognized. This is much better than that awful CALIFORNICATION thing. I agree with Bobby that it should be a 60-minute show.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
