Hellen
I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
CommentsXp
Best movie ever!
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
sues-2
Warning spoiler within: Great show, fresh idea, relatable characters, family show and a lighthearted comedy.The Dad is a blind lawyer who has a seeing eye dog and is dealing with normal family challenges, recent separation from his wife, raising teenagers and re-entering the dating world. The characters have that quirkiness that makes you root for them. You know you can watch this show and feel good afterwards.It is just too bad that NBC could not see it's potential and cancelled it. That's the spoiler. Hoping another network will pick it up. If About a Boy was renewed, which is not as good as Growing Up Fisher one really hopes that another network can see the potential.
HerbsReviews
"Are you sure you should be driving?" NBC is currently trying a couple of new family centered series of which this is one and the other being About A Boy. Unfortunately, the premise is relatively thin and the show quickly abuses the abilities of the protagonist, Mel Fisher. The premise revolves around Mel Fisher, a blind lawyer, who goes about his life fooling everyone into believing he can see. The protagonist can apparently chop down trees with a chainsaw, teach his daughter to parallel park, leap over other lawyers with a simple bound. The comedy would need to be irreverent and edu for this to have the slightest shot at success. 'instead, it goes for a sappy, feel-good vibe with a voice-over by Jason Bateman. Despite it being based on the creator's actual childhood, the element of truth doesn't make it any less absurd or any more worthy of being a TV show. Just as it's hard to keep up with how many failed sitcoms there have been during mid-seasons, I'm losing track of how many mawkish, barely funny sitcoms these days are drawn from the writer's own family experience and upbringing. Creatively, the story of Me is an awfully stifling place to start. Memoir has its place beyond the page, but sitcoms are usually not it - for the same reasons that family stories you think are so table-poundingly hilarious are difficult to convey to any audience larger than a dinner party. Network execs need to stop indulging this strange habit and ask writers and producers to look for pilot pitches someplace other than their home movies and photo albums: it just isn't funny. For these reasons Growing Up Fisher gets a 2/10.
mbv-934-190763
We were pleased to see that NBC has tried a couple of new family centered series of which this is one and the other being About A Boy.We think the star in this series will turn out to be young Henry (Eli Baker). He is a fresh young talent and we think he has great potential.J.K. Simmons as Mel Fisher the Dad is an enjoyable character. It was especially nice to see how Henry listens to everything Dad says and there are many large underlying "teachable moments" in this first episode. Mel is a good Dad.Jenna Elfman is someone we enjoy seeing anytime, and here in her role as Joyce she was true to type. We enjoyed this episode and will tune in again next week. Growing Up Fisher and About A Boy are a welcome relief from watching NCIS Los Angeles on that other network. That means it fills a time slot where the market is hungry for something new and in this case NBC did it.Keep up the good work and we may tune in to NBC for more than Grimm.
pensman
I like Bateman's narrative voice, am a fan of J.K. Simmons, and enjoy the acting and banter of Eli Baker and Lance Lim; however, the premise is a bit thin and the show quickly overdoes the abilities of Mel Fisher the main character, a blind lawyer who could give Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil, a run for the money. He chops down trees with a chainsaw; he teaches his daughter to parallel park: and he leaps over other lawyers with a simple bound. And yet despite all of his abilities he somehow married Jenna Elfman who is playing the same character she did in Dharma & Greg. And I guess that might be believable given the 20 year difference in the age between Simmons and ELfman which would explain that his child bride has just always stayed a child. Why you ask? Because Simmons' character intimidates everyone with his accomplishments being blind and all thus sending his wife off to a divorce so she can find herself. Yawn.
