Having desires more doesn’t make you a monster, but accepting them. ABC has officially announced the closure of The Family after the first season, but there is still a small chance that the series will buy some channel and still bring the story of the Warren family to its logical conclusion, because what we saw at the end of the season was intriguing - and left us, the audience, in the dark. But the series surprisingly turned out to be very good. This I mean that the series from ABC do not like – they are painfully sweet and the further in the seasons, the logic of the narrative evaporates at the end, remember the same LOST, but they still have their advantages – all the characters as from the picture, and the plot is such – watch and relax. Come on, let’s get back to the family. Initially, I started watching the series because of Liam James, who I remember from Murder and Road Home, it has potential, definitely. In addition, the cast was promising plus a non-trivial story (or trivial?).
Eight-year-old Adam disappeared in the Warren family ten years ago. The body of the child was never found, but they found a criminal – Hank’s neighbor, who had previously been attracted for increased interest in male children. The confession was knocked out, the man was sent to prison (it is hard to imagine what he had to go through with such and such an article). And on the eve of the elections to the governors of the state, and here it should be noted that the mother of the venerable family was the mayor of the city (the disappearance of the younger son to some extent played into the hands of her election campaign, but almost divorced her husband - the father of the family twisted an affair with a black investigator) and just ran for a higher post, a miracle happened - there was a missing Adam. Everyone rejoices, the boy is alive. Yes, he is in a terrible state: for ten years he was periodically raped and kept in a bunker. DNA analysis conducted, identity confirmed And this is where the most interesting thing begins. Despite the fact that the main mystery opens to us in just a couple of episodes – we know who the maniac is, we know who Adam is and yet... Intrigue is present. The “Family” uses the channel’s favorite trick, the so-called flashbacks, which were simply saturated with “How to Get Away with Murder” and the same LOST. And here we will constantly be thrown back to 10 years, then again to the present, which will allow you to feel the tragedy of all the heroes, whether it is the Warren family or a pedophile neighbor, or the boys forgotten in the middle of the forest in a dark bunker. The members of the Warren family as a selection: the eldest son is an alcoholic, the daughter is a workaholic with complexes and a constant sense of guilt that Adama disappeared because of her, the father, constantly looking towards the investigator, the mother, busy more with her career than her family ... The appearance of Adam seems to unite a broken family, but it only seems.
I really liked Hank's neighbor line. A colorful character whose inner struggles are interesting to watch throughout the action.
The finale turned out to be something predictable, and in some ways introduced an unexpected plot twist, which would necessarily become key in the second season, but here it is. In general, we can say that good has won. I think. That’s the price they paid for it.
In a word, I recommend it. I thought it would be much worse. An-Net. It worked at a good level. Contradictory and dramatic, as I love it. And yes, the most important thing: there are no bad and good (well, except maniacs, of course), there are people with their own dramas and disappointments.
7 out of 10