A multi-racial family made up of a husband, a wife, three adopted children from Somalia, Vietnam and Colombia, and one biological child, finds its bonds tested.
Every time Here and Now threatens to allow its undeniably talented cast to develop characters, they do something that is so clearly a writer's contrivance that the whole exercise falls apart again.
This show's willingness to go for baroque, adding on oddity with gusto, recalls the best and-in moments-worst of Six Feet Under...Here and Now sets forth more confidently.
The show is just a chronicle of stuff that happens to this family, with a vague promise that something important will happen somewhere along the line. I never hated watching it, but I never felt particularly compelled to watch any more.
After four episodes, there is a more than warranted fear that the drama is missing some of the necessary pieces to provide any redeeming resolution to the chaos.
