Here and Now (Sky Atlantic)

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Has anyone else been watching this? I've just caught up with the first two episodes and really liked it (although I'm not sure "liked" is the right word, some bits are pretty weird!)

From IMDB - "A multi-racial family made up of husband, wife, three adopted children from Somalia, Vietnam and Colombia and one biological child, find their bonds tested when one of the children begins seeing things which the rest cannot."

The children of the family are all adults, apart from the youngest (and only biological) daughter who's a teenager, and all have their own issues. There's family drama, relationship drama and, when one of them starts hallucinating, a fair bit of the paranormal thrown in too. I'm really interested to see where it goes. Also, Raymond Lee is gorgeous, which helps!

If anyone else is watching, join the thread as I have a ton of questions about it

Found a better synopsis:

"As Audrey Bayer puts the finishing touches on her husband Greg’s 60th birthday party – a milestone Greg is loath to celebrate – cracks begin to emerge in their progressive, multiracial family. Ramon, the couple’s Colombian-born son, who’s just starting a relationship with Henry, a barista, is having unexplained, recurring encounters with the numbers “11:11.” Duc, adopted from Vietnam, enjoys the fruits of a lucrative career as a “motivational architect,” but his celibacy troubles Audrey. Liberian-born Ashley, a successful fashion-industry exec, is finding more and more reason to shake up her marriage with her husband, Malcolm. And 17-year-old Kristen, the couple’s youngest child, chafes at her banal life, especially compared to her more exotic siblings. After a troubling incident at the birthday party, Audrey and Greg take Ramon to a therapist, Dr. Farid Shokrani, who has an unlikely and unexplainable connection to the young man."

I think the swearing and the sex are completely unnecessary and feels like they are trying too hard to be cool.
But I love Ramon and the 11 11 storyline.

I hadn’t noticed the swearing The sex is pretty ott, considering we’ve already seen the dad, Ramon, Kristen and Duc having sex (thankfully not together!) Duc’s was weird though. I just thought he was remembering past sex, but I was reading online that the lamp that got smashed in the threesome was intact when he snapped out of it so... imaginary?
I love the direction of the 11 11 storyline, esp with the photo in the doctors office and Dad seeing it too. Be interesting to see where it goes.

The daughter said the c word in the first 5 minutes!
It's not just the swearing, it's the drugs and the hippie attitudes. It feels like they're trying to grab everyone's attention by being a bit controversial.

I felt like (and I may be wrong) that they were trying to portray a very liberal family, but also portray them as flawed, annoying and hamstrung by their own beliefs. Almost as the ‘dark’ side of a liberal lifestyle if that makes sense. I might be massively overthinking it, but they did seem to be making a lot of the characters unlikeable or overstated, but in a very watchable way.

Its a let down really considering it comes from the writers of Six ft under. Its too try hard.

Its supposed to be i imagine, like Brothers and Sisters, Parenthood and the ultimate angst ridden boho family show Transparent but it just doesnt work does it?

Holly Hunter looks so different whats happened? I didnt recognise her.