Stunningly good television. Not just the characters but the character relationships are first rate - the way everyone tries to alpha the other, the fact they are kept watchable by funny lines and genuine sense of love for each other (when the dad is ill everyone is worried).
It's been cast brilliantly - they cast the subtext: the weak boyfriend, the dogged but weak and dumb son who wants to run things, the smart and sarcastic but incompetent son, the competent and smart daughter who dates beneath herself to keep control and isn't considered a possibility for leadership because of her gender, the dopey nephew we keep expecting to prove to be smart but never does.
Utterly brilliant.
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