As Victor’s adoption deadline draws near, Julia and Joel contemplate the long term effects of this decision. Renee oversteps her boundaries and intrudes on Crosby and Jasmine. Upon advice offered by Zeek and Amber, Ryan seeks to make amends with Joel.Download Video Parenthood It's About Time Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Parenthood Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.Meanwhile, Mark and Sarah discuss their relationship, concerning Hank. Kristina (Monica Potter) supports Max with a unique campaign.Parenthood is a one-hour drama inspired by the box office hit of the same name; it follows the trials and tribulations of the very large, very colorful and imperfect Braverman family. Sarah Braverman (Lauren Graham) is a financially strapped single mother trying to raise two teenaged kids, the bright but rebellious Amber (Mae Whitman), and sullen and sensitive Drew (Miles Heizer). On the home front, Sarah and her kids live with Sarah's larger-than-life, headstrong father, Zeek (Craig T. Nelson), and pillar-of-strength mother Camille (Bonnie Bedelia), who are dealing with their own marital issues.
Meanwhile, Sarah's sister and complete antithesis, Julia (Erika Christensen) is a successful corporate attorney trying to juggle work and motherhood, alongside her loving but increasingly restless stay-at-home husband, Joel (Sam Jaeger). Commitment-phobe Crosby (Dax Shepard), Sarah's younger brother, is helping raise a five-year-old son he had out of wedlock with former flame Jasmine (Joy Bryant).
However, it's Adam (Peter Krause), the oldest Braverman sibling, who has had to relinquish his expectations about what constitutes a "normal" family, as he, his quietly forceful wife Kristina (Monica Potter) and independent-minded teenage daughter Haddie (Sarah Ramos), struggle to cope with their eccentric son and Haddie's little brother Max (Max Burkholder), who has Asperger's Syndrome.
Although each sibling and family has its own share of everyday challenges to grapple with, they still manage to be there for each other in their hours of need.
The sprawling Braverman family starts its fourth season of life-in-progress. Luckily, it's not hard to jump into the gist of the goings-on. Still living at home with the (grand)folks, oldest sister Sarah (Lauren Graham) needs a job and falls into one assisting the moany, groany, no-eye-contact photographer (Ray Romano) hired to take her family's portrait. Which isn't slated to include her fiance, Mark (Jason Ritter).
Older brother and family rock Adam (Peter Krause) is sending overachieving daughter Haddie off to Cornell, while autism-spectrum son Max (Max Burkholder) is pitching fits. He's also shunning just-adopted cousin Victor (Xolo Mariduena), who's acting out himself, opening a tactical schism between lawyer younger sister Julia (Erika Christensen) and stay-at-home hubby Joel (Sam Jaeger). And younger brother Crosby (Dax Shepard) faces the big spirituality question, when Grandma starts son Jabbar (Tyree Brown) on a path of prayer.
MY SAY Ah, yes, the Braverman family, one very big, very convoluted clan almost impossible to describe in one sentence, or paragraph, or review. Kinda like your family.
It's less the Plot Events that ring true here than the well-played little side moments and background squabbles, the simmering resentments and recriminations, the emotional tugs-of-war. Even the babies behave naturally.
Every Tuesday night, after the conclusion of Parenthood, my wife says to me sentimentally, "I want to be a Braverman!" NBC's mildly successful drama, Parenthood, utilizes its larger-than-normal cast (15 recurring characters) to create a realistic atmosphere that explores the deeper realities of being an American family.
Each episode beckons the viewer to identify with one branch of the Braverman family tree. Do you see yourself as the successful oldest brother, Adam, who everyone in the family looks to for support and advice? Are you the single mother, Sarah, who is overcoming a failed marriage and the repercussions of the children's absent father?
Or maybe you're Julia, the successful lawyer who's climbing her way up the corporate ladder, but all the while wrestling with the cost to her family? Then there's the black sheep Crosby, whose fear of commitment and settling down are challenged by the confident, aspiring mother of his child, Jazmin, whom he has fallen deeply in love with.
Or, perhaps, your children are raised and now, as the patriarchs of your family you find yourself in Zeek and Camielle's position of watching your children parent and navigating the complexities of having an adult child (not to mention grandchildren) living with you in your home.
The story lines and issues dealt with in Parenthood bring the audience into the midst of some of today's most challenging issues. In its first two seasons, Parenthood has empathized with its audience's struggles in an incredible number of real life situations: job loss,
Asperger's syndrome, raising a rebellious teenager, raising a teenage boy with his father absent, midlife crises, financial stresses after retirement, the reality of peer pressure, unexpected pregnancies, balancing your career aspirations with those of your spouse's, biracial dating, and infertility.