Part Five

Well, if "Married with children" is funny and make fun of a poor family, this show is quite boring and focuses on a wealthy one instead.

Moreover, having just watched "Millenium" and concluded that the show shouldn't have been turn into movies, here, it's the contrary: those five hours should have been edited in a fine movie because the scenes drag a lot, all the more than they happen a lot of times in Mildred's house (it would be interesting to compare with the classic black and white release then).

I'm really ambivalent with the story : if the goal was to make me cry in front of this courageous woman who had to work, well, i'm not that audience: she isn't poor: she has a luxurious and big house, a car, pays piano lesson to her daughter, so really, she isn't a self made woman. She hasn't started from nothing. For me, it's the usual crap of the "grace and miracles of the rich" and i just really don't buy those lies. In the last episodes, the show turns into a family drama around an "american idol". Again, the whims of the fortunate left me totally unmoved.

Sure, Kate carries all the show on her shoulders and proves that she's a great actress. It was fine to see that Al's daughter in "Simone" has become a young woman. The lavish production from the thirties America would please the Indy fans but it's not enough to recommend it.

And as a final stab, I just wonder how the privileged elitist critics who praise it found the repetitive gratuitous nudity?

Great mini series but the ending was disturbing, disturbing as in it bothered me so much.. which was probably the intent. No one knows what a mother would do in the situations Mildred was found in, but I found it heartbreaking. I'm glad I watched it.