Thursday, January 29, 2015

Always & Forever: Parenthood "May God Bless and Keep You Always"


Just six years ago, we were introduced to the Bravermans and now we say goodbye, as tonight was the series finale of Parenthood and the whole meaning of this series is staying together.

The wedding is being planned out with Amber, Camille and Sarah. Things at Amber's apartment is a bit crowed with all that baby stuff. In the meantime, Hank goes over to see Zeek and ask for his blessing to marry his favorite daughter. Of course, he accepts.

If you think I started crying after that, NOT! I started when the episode first started.

Later on Crosby and Jasmine comes by with gifts for Amber and Crosby tells her that the luncheonette is shutting down. Amber not to happy about it but she handled it.

As soon as Crosby got back to help Adam clear things out, Adam wants him to sign the last contract and then they'll be done. Tension between them comes in the air but it was gone by the time the wedding.

As the wedding was soon to be getting started Max takes everyone's photo. We have one of the best photo shoot scene ever on television. I bet that most of that was improv.

As we see Sarah walking down with Zeek, hands her to Hank, Zeek looks emotional as he walks to his seat and soon Sarah and Hank are married.

The party couldn't be any happier after crying for the first 25 minutes of the show. Crosby talks to Jasmine about him owning the Luncheonette, Camille and Zeek asking Amber to move in with them and even Max getting to dance with a girl that they both like.

As the wedding ends, we move ahead. Adam who we thought was going to get the job at the water company doesn't after Kristina offers Adam Head Master job at Chambers after seeing him cooking with the kids.

Amber is moved in with her grandparents.

But it was when we see Camille looking at Sarah's wedding photos. That's when she was talking to Zeek, until he never responded to her. She goes into the living room and well....he passed away in his sleep in his favorite chair.

The family celebrates his death with a game of baseball. It was the one thing that Zeek loved to do is to take his kids and grand kids to the ballpark. After each member dumps his ashes on the mound, they start playing baseball.

As we see them playing we see clips of each family's future. Joel and Julia not only adopted Victor's half-sister but they had another child. Crosby and Amber are doing well with the Luncheonette as the artists were recording "Forever Young" as it's playing during the montage.

Also Jasmine is expecting another child. Also we see Max graduate from Chambers and as Adam hands him his diploma, proud with the rest of the family cheering on.

And well Camille, she went to that cafe place in Italy, the place where Zeek was going to surprise her for their wedding anniversary.

As soon as the game was over, the family walks off heading home for what I think is another family dinner together.

I have't seen a finale this good since Friday Night Lights and ER. This was one of the best ever. I've loved this series from the beginning. This show was so original and keep true to real life storytelling.

Now, we have this show that will live forever as the Braverman family be. They may leave our TV screens, but they'll always and forever be in our hearts.

You can catch the series finale of Parenthood on nbc.com.


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