Good Trouble

After the successful TV show "The Fosters" came to an end, this new show brings Callie and Mariana to Los Angeles. As you may know, the finale of "The Fosters" already jumped a few years forward and introduced Callie and Mariana as recent graduates who were planning on starting their careers in L.A. .

While this new show might try to present the lead characters in a more mature light, the initial steps of both Callie and Mariana in their new professional setting are still cluttered with some of their old habits. After their degrees and life-forming years at university, you can't really estimate how advanced Callie and Mariana could behave because many of their previous remnants from "The Fosters" show are still in their daily lives - like dating/boys or their lively dynamic with their mothers. One aspect, their unbound sisterly love and support for each other, is still as strong as before and carries over their belief that family always comes first.

Whether "Good Trouble" will be able to allow Callie and Mariana to mature beyond their foster years remains to be seen. The production quality, the new setting and promising story line are certainly a great start.

I love how vocal this show is about social issues and the fact it has so many diverse and interesting characters! But every episode I find myself skipping through at least 25% of it because it's either Callie having completely unnecessary intimate scenes, the made-up love triangle (which no one cares about) or screentime is wasted on her "lost in thought" about something that adds zero value to the story.. Mariana is meant to be the other main character but she gets half of Callie's screentime, while actually being charismatic and having something interesting to say. Give the rest of the characters the screentime they deserve and people might be more interested in this show!

I loved The Fosters and the way it finished but I am disappointed in the Callie and Marianna characters. They have had no growth or have matured at all. Callie still jumps into bed with the first guy and acts like she did when she was 17. Makes it hard to believe she has graduated law and now works with a judge. The show was okay but wouldn't be bothered if I missed episodes

I thought The Fosters was a far superior show to this. That being said, this show is enjoyable, but please do away with the lesbian comic storyline. They are not funny,( not one of them has uttered even once funny line, ever) and all they do is sleep around and stab each other in the back. The other running storylines are good, but please give these girls a break and give them something good to do, because none of them are comics. I cringe every time they start to do a set.

The Fosters was awesome on many levels, and after 5 episodes my list of favourite shows now includes Good Trouble. I guess we all want varying things from the dramas we watch - so long as the stories are character driven and allow for personal growth, and the main characters are likeable, I don't mind spending time with one or two people I would avoid in real life. Some of Callie and Mariana's new loft mates are a bit abrasive, and their workmates are ****s, but without conflict there would be no story. At the beginning of the pilot episode Callie and Mariana are in the same outfits and UHaul they were in at the very end of The Fosters.

Cierra Ramirez is exceptionally talented, has great comic timing (a gift), and never murdered a line in 5 seasons of The Fosters. She's the perfect person to play Mariana - set up by the writers with a propensity to stretch the truth or delude herself, and with no respect for anyone's secrets but her own. These flaws often are what keeps the stories moving. She makes up for these unforgivable traits by being fierce, whether protecting someone she cares about or cutting through other people's BS. Her breakthrough moments and her sense of fun are highlights, for me.

No, Callie has never seemed promiscuous or needy to me, but then I've never understood why anyone would expect most people to become attached, engaged and married happily ever after to only one person in a lifetime (unless the story is set in the 16th century or something). I'm in my 60s and happy for these characters to act their age - gosh, I might even learn something when one of them makes a mistake.

The pace of the storyline seems less frantic than The Fosters.

Another thing I don't understand is reviewers who whinge and moan about the show's "liberal" values. Well, duh! If they find it all so unbearable why on earth don't they watch something else? It's like smacking yourself in the eye so you can resent having hands.

The setting and sets for this series are just yummy, and the art theme is a bonus. The sequence in 01x05 involving the 1957 photo from Arkansas (see... no spoiler!) is typical of the occasional treats I've come to expect from these prducers. My only wish is that, as we are getting a lot of flashback sequences, writers would find a way to make this slightly less confusing. As on The Fosters, I sometimes find myself wondering, not where, but when we are, in a story.