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The Kids Are Alright - Season 1
An exciting and new series of comedy and suspense engulfing events around A working-class district outside Los Angeles, Mike and Biggie collected eight young children in their three bedrooms and one bathroom, the lives of young people seem to be out of control. His eldest son, Lawrence, will return home and announce that he will leave school after things have changed.
8 February 1969, Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
22 August 1981, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
4 January 1969, Natick, Massachusetts, USA
13 August 1959, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
20 October 1990, Kentucky, USA
29 December 1964, Long Island, New York, USA
October 16, 2018
The first episode is very funny and flies by... What's distinct, though, is the attempt to connect the 1970s setting to contemporary America.
October 16, 2018
The Kids Are Alright is a terribly generic name for a surprisingly distinctive and personal sitcom, plucked from the memories of series creator Tim Doyle,
October 16, 2018
The ABC family-sitcom brand may have another winner in Tim Doyle's (Last Man Standing) affectionate if derivative memoir about growing up in a rambunctious Irish-Catholic family of eight boys in the 1970s.
October 16, 2018
What The Kids Are Alright has going for it most of all is McCormack, who makes the most of a role cut to her talents.
October 15, 2018
The tumult, chaos and divergent interests of these many brothers feels authentic, and so do the besieged parents who are trying to hold it all together with a modest paycheck and as much love as they can divide among eight boys.
October 16, 2018
All told there's much to like in The Kids Are Alright, partly owing to the era being ripe with possibilities and partly because Doyle's sense of humor about his childhood rings mostly true as it reflects and finds well-earned comedy in nostalgia.
October 16, 2018
A sweet little sitcom.
October 17, 2018
Yes, this show could get better. But there are so many characters to service it feels like none of them will be more than one-note.
October 16, 2018
The best of the fall season's new comedies from a network that's become well-practiced in turning back the clock and making shows like these tick.
October 16, 2018
The casting works, and the writing underscores the bonds among these characters in a way that makes them feel like a real family.