Party of Five

I actually like the show. I grew up watching the original party of five but I like how the writers gave this show a similar flavor. It appeals to a my younger crowd but I've found myself looking forward to waiting for the next episode each week.

I was a huge fan of the original from the 90's and was so excited they were bringing it back. And I'm not disappointed! I love the new spin they put on the show making it about a Hispanic family who deal with their parents being deported along with everyday struggles as teens and young adults. The characters personalities are very similar to the original cast members Lacy Chabert, Scott Wolf, Neve Campbell and Matthew Fox. I hope a lot of people check this show out and it gets picked up for a season 2 the first episode is great so far!

I generally hate to see TV reboots for shows I loved, like the original party of five;however, the re-envisioning provided by this new version allows it to pack all the emotion, drama, and portrayal of family of the original series. While it is always hard to tell how a show will go, after watching the pilot, I think this show has incredible potential.

I saw the comment that it should have stuck with the original premise. That would be just too much like the original. No one wants that. And why is real life too much for people? You get diversity in color/race but, not in that color or race expressing their truth? It's not about being political. It's about what is real. And this is real for some people. We can't knock the experience of others because it makes some uncomfortable. It's a great show with a great premise. And I can't wait to see how their story unfolds.

So first I'll say that Freeform or whoever choose to call this show Party of Five clearly was hoping to stir up nostalgia in viewers of the original thinking it would provide viewers which would work for a single episode since aside from 5 siblings this show has little else in common with the original. Oh yeah and theres a family owned restaurant and there's one brother who's in his early 20s and there's both a brother and a Sister who are in their teens and then we have a tween little sister and a baby brother. That's the end of the similarities.

The original was about 5 siblings who'd parents were killed in a car accident and there fight to stay together as well as morn the loss of their parents as well as get back to as normal of a life they could have after such a tragedy.

In this version the parents are alive and were deported. In the first episode the eldest sister while talking to another student at her school about how they have a house without adult supervision and how cool it is the girl attempts to relate and mentions her parents divorce and gets shut down quickly with a annoyed it's not the same thing" which is about how I felt with this show and it changing parents dying to being deported and acting as if they are the same thing. It's horrible how families are being ripped apart but at least they're alive. At least they know while not together that seeing mom and dad is still a possibility.

That being said the show is good. The acting is pretty strong for a pilot and once you get over the dirty trick tv executives used to gain viewership it's an extremely moving and heart breaking story that needs to be told. If they had given the show a different name they could've made a show that's good and didn't have a show with history that it would be compared to and probably could've reached more people. However I fear those who need to be reached will more than likely not watch the shown due to the poor choice to call this party of five, giving the bigots and racist a reason to never even hear the message.

It's good and could've been great had they simply not called it Party of Five.