Sarah and I watched a bit of the third or fourth episode of this show when it aired on CBC. But jumping into the middle of this show is difficult. The characters are established pretty quickly, their quirks are all explained in the first episode, and it’s a bit hard to care about them without knowing their whole story.
So, when the show released on DVD, I decided to give the whole series a shot. 
And it has now given me a new favorite actor of the month: Sherry Miller who plays Mrs Jarlewski is just fantastic. She’s like an older, subtler version of perennial favorite Portia de Rossi.
The show also introduced a cast of relative unknowns (who have all gone on to do more since then), and gave a wonderfully twisted role to former Growing Pains dad Alan Thicke (he’s an alcoholic, a philanderer and a wannabe (but not very good) actor). And in a (presumably) unintentional nod to Growing Pains, his wife’s name is Carol, too. (more…)
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