I feel disappointed with the way the characters develop. Mr. Carson is the most disappointing of all. Although he has always been an ass, he's now turned more ill-mannered, more cruel and even meaner than ever. And this after he's found love and marriage?
Mary also disappoints. She has always been steadfast and calculated in the decisions she makes but now she gets involved with a man that not only she herself would consider "marrying down" to but who is also intent on celebrating and participating in a sport that he is fully aware terrifies Mary. Yet she fawns over him like he is the second coming. And she is the worse mother on modern television. Poor George gets about 15 minutes of her time from the moment he's born until the close of the last season.
Ms. Braxton is about as flaky as a box of Cornflakes. She wobbles back and forth between wanting to forget about her past and embrace the changes she's made (to be a better person) to wanting to revisit the most horrific part of her past even at the dismay of Mr. Moseley who has supported her to the fullest. Like many battered women, she seems incapable of recognizing when a good man is there for them and seems to stay attracted to that bad boy.
Mr. Barrow - the most despicable and detestable character of all - turns out to be the most sympathetic. The one you end up rooting for and hoping all turns out well in his life. He has a big heart and wants to love and be loved but his heart also has a thick coating of rejection and disappointment (that he has dealt with throughout his life) and is difficult to penetrate.
All of the characters seems to have a degree of complexity but how they develop and evolve is consistently murky.
Mary also disappoints. She has always been steadfast and calculated in the decisions she makes but now she gets involved with a man that not only she herself would consider "marrying down" to but who is also intent on celebrating and participating in a sport that he is fully aware terrifies Mary. Yet she fawns over him like he is the second coming. And she is the worse mother on modern television. Poor George gets about 15 minutes of her time from the moment he's born until the close of the last season.
Ms. Braxton is about as flaky as a box of Cornflakes. She wobbles back and forth between wanting to forget about her past and embrace the changes she's made (to be a better person) to wanting to revisit the most horrific part of her past even at the dismay of Mr. Moseley who has supported her to the fullest. Like many battered women, she seems incapable of recognizing when a good man is there for them and seems to stay attracted to that bad boy.
Mr. Barrow - the most despicable and detestable character of all - turns out to be the most sympathetic. The one you end up rooting for and hoping all turns out well in his life. He has a big heart and wants to love and be loved but his heart also has a thick coating of rejection and disappointment (that he has dealt with throughout his life) and is difficult to penetrate.
All of the characters seems to have a degree of complexity but how they develop and evolve is consistently murky.