Good Trouble

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 really wanted to like this show because I enjoyed The Fosters, but I'm struggling. Good Trouble? More like Bad Decisions. Callie and Mariana continue to make one bad decision after another and they have surrounded themselves with a whole menagerie of people who do the same. They are supposed to now be a law school graduate and an MIT graduate. If they made decisions like they continue to do now while they were in college, neither would have graduated or landed their jobs. The writers are letting them down by continuing to write them as the teenage girls they were rather than the women they should have become.

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

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 liked The Fosters mostly for its portrayal of a family led by two committed, married lesbians, living their lives. The focus was not just about them being gay. I will give Good Trouble kudos for continuing in covering the same types of important social issues and broad diversity of characters as The Fosters did. But Callie and Marianna? They have had zero character growth in 6 plus years of programming. They NEVER learn from their mistakes. They have made one bad decision after another, then when trouble follows, they lie or deploy avoidance/denial tactics. Every time. At the end of the day, all is forgiven and there are never any real consequences for years of bad choices. Success continues to be handed to them in spite of themselves. Surely they can be written as more complex and adult than this, after obtaining law and engineering degrees. I wanted to like this show, but have remained only to support the Alice/Joey storyline.