(High Defination 4) Brothers and Sisters

Featuring: Calista Flockhart (Ally McBeal), Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under), Sally Field (Norman Rae),Balthazar Getty, Matthew Rhys & Dave Annable.

Show Category: Family Drama

About the Show: Brothers and Sisters is a compelling, new one-hour prime time drama about the California-based Walker family. In the series, we meet a collection of incredibly intertwined and somewhat damaged adult siblings who embrace one another unconditionally while striving to reflect the perceived perfection of their role model parents. In the days ahead, they will navigate waves of temptation, deception and grief.

Brothers and Sisters follows the Walkers through the maze of American life today -- the pressures, limitless options and the struggle to grow beyond our backgrounds into ourselves. Through these fascinating siblings -- Sarah, the corporate VP struggling to balance motherhood with career; Tommy, the loyal son and seeming heir to the family business; Kevin, the gay lawyer cautiously learning about love; Justin, the baby of the family, grappling with war trauma and addiction; and Kitty, right-wing radio host turned TV pundit who has always been Daddy's little girl -- the show explores what it means to be a family in the 21st century, and how these brothers and sisters balance their own lives as they strive to accept their parents as people -- flawed, contradictory and forgivable -- rather than just as a father and mother.

The parents are Tom Skerritt as William Walker, the larger-than-life patriarch and president of the family business, and Sally Field as Nora Holden, the opinionated wife and mother to the five Walker siblings.

My Comments (5/5): Although it posts some similarity to Season One of "Six Feet Under", but I got to say this shows grows into the viewer much better than the latter. This shows is evolves around stay-at-home parents, sibling rivalry at work, homosexual relationships, and other issues that affect many families around the world (note I used the word many. But since it is TV, we can forgive the fact that all this happen to one family, and thank the fact that the writers merged them together beautifully).

I am giving a perfect rating, because similarly to the real world, no matter how dysfunctional a family is there is still love, care and concern for one another. The show smartly shows how human choose to push their differences aside and stand beside one another, only when big major problems arise. It also shows regrets we were to have by not expressing yourself while you still have the chances to do so. It is a heart-warming drama which you can pick up a lot of lessons in life.

TV Promo:


You will notice in the next promo trailer, that two actors had been replaced by Sally Field and Matthew Rhys. The promo also showed that Kelvin was married with a kid. Guess they made many changes but the present show that is still running is excellant and exciting enough.


Note: it would be coming to Singapore soon, but I believed there would be many cuts made, so download and wait for the DVD.