Season 3 is about Adam and Christina, who face a happy surprise, as Christina became pregnant during this period. There appears to be a new experience by dealing with a teenage daughter and a son with Asperger syndrome. At this point, there is a new baby, while Julia and Joel, who are unable to have another child of their own, have decided to adopt.
A sprawling, multigenerational ensemble series, Parenthood might look like a soap opera, suspiciously overstocked with sequences of family members dancing in the kitchen. Yet it's one of only two great dramas on network television.
Parenthood... [is] a lighthearted, often sentimental, but never saccharine drama that seeks to form an emotional bond with its audience. In essence, Parenthood is the kind of drama families should be watching with one another.