The happy Holt family. Sarah and Hank finally do get married and, via the montage peek into their future, we see that they become a happy, consciously coupled family unit.
Okay, fine. Nevertheless: I just about died on my sofa of a Dillon Panthers heart attack at this reveal. The Friday Night Parenthood bond is solidified even further when Ryan a. Full hearts, swollen, bursting!
Yet also part of my heart, or possibly my loins, wishes that Tim Riggins could have been shoehorned into all this somehow. Cry factor, on a scale of one to five tears at this point in montage: Pretty much riding it out at five, or possibly six or seven, for the rest of life. Max Braverman graduates.
First of all, watching Max hug little Nora when she runs to home plate during the Zeek Braverman memorial baseball game: Forget it. Dying, dead, hoping Jason Street speaks at my funeral because the reveal of him as eulogy deliverer would kick ass! But then the flash-forward shows us Max Braverman receiving his diploma from his dad, who, earlier in the episode, agrees to become headmaster at Chambers Academy instead of taking a job at a bottled-water company that is definitely not in any way affiliated with Poland Springs.
Mountain Springs: not even the same name, not at all. Oh, and also: This alleged c 3 organization has been trying to recruit Kristina for months and she never told Adam?
None of this makes a whiff of sense, but it puts all the ducks in a row to allow future montage Max to graduate as his parents share a meaningful look of pride, thereby adding additional liquid to the tear reservoir that pools in my lap.
Cry factor, on a scale of one to five tears at this point in montage: Like I said: riding it out at five, six, or seven … hell, crying might now have become my default setting forever. Zeek telling Hank to take care of his daughter. Craig T. Nelson is just wonderful in this episode, playing all of his emotion right up on top of the surface. But I didn't want it to be the only thing we took away from the show.
I think the show is ultimately, has always been ultimately uplifting, even though we have dealt with very, very difficult material. To me what the show has really always been about is no matter what happens, this family coming together, and continuing to flourish and thrive, despite everything.
And that's why I wanted to get to that ending of them on the baseball field and with those flash forwards to the future. Look, I've been down this road with Friday Night Lights. We did make an effort to find a way to keep that going, and ultimately, it just wasn't going to work. But with Parenthood , I think there is something really intriguing with it. Because I want to know where this family is in three years or five years.
I want to see what Max is like in his first job. I want to see where these people are down the road. But a milion things have to come together in terms of getting all of these people available at the same time. And what's the right context of it all. But that finale is also filled with a kind of mournfulness for a world that has passed on, right out from under the show's feet. There's probably room to do a family drama about the issues more and more Americans face now.
That show probably won't look anything like Parenthood , but it was sure nice to visit the show's world for six seasons. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding.
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NBC The best section of the Parenthood series finale — about as good a wrap-up as this imperfect, messy season could have hoped for — was the long middle section set at the wedding of eldest daughter Sarah Lauren Graham to Hank Ray Romano. The economics of the Bravermans For the first half of its run, Parenthood was a show that was acutely aware of the economic circumstances of its characters. Amber Mae Whitman greets baby Zeek, the newest Braverman.
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For more newsletters, check out our newsletters page. The Latest. That was cause for a tissue, by the way. I mean, that would be too cruel, right? Having Millie quietly discover Zeek there in his chair—and her restrained, understated reaction perfectly understated, by the way —gave his death dignity, which is exactly what he wanted. My own anguished reaction was enough to have to deal with, thankyouverymuch. Cutting immediately to the celebration of his life on the baseball field which is just what Zeek said he wanted way back in episode 2, remember?
From what I could see through my tear-filled eyes, everyone moves on—standing upright, courageously, and with strength to quote the lyrics to the opening.
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