Gizmo76 I started watching this show from the first episode, and was hooked... it was funny, heart-warming, realistic, and creatively written. The cast was incredibly talented (especially the actors who played the three teenagers), and they really interacted like a true family. The quality shows are becoming more and more rare lately, so it's always a shame when the good ones don't make it!

SFMC-2 The real problem with the show is that the writers and casting agents seem to be working at odds with each other. The actors and actresses are universally attractive, even the youngest son (although the dialogue and plot would have you believe otherwise), and the kids get into trouble with a listless kind of malice. Problems are tidy, resolved swiftly, and include healthy dialogue and reconciliation. It's all far too tidy.If the producer was aiming for a show with the texture and quality of thirtysomething, Get Real isn't going to make it. The show is trying too hard to snag all the demographics available - the rebellious female teen who isn't ready to let go, the surfer duuuude with a sensitive side, the angsty adolescent boy with mildly-weird issues around dating, the buff dad with the wandering eye, the still-pretty mom with the midlife crisis, and the dapper grandmother dispensing Zen-like advice to one and all. There's already too much character development going on to then add situational trauma like a "rave" where the kids get up to no good and return home late.A show like My So-Called Life, by contrast, left the weekly crises in the background and focused on the characters' reactions to each other. Get Real presents life as if it was a series of shiny moral questions to solve and move beyond. There's not enough reality to brace up the name...itself another attempt to catch the eye of a jaded Gen-Y viewer.

Sadies I see potential for this show, but it just isn't hitting that mark. First of all, the show is trying to hard with doing new things with the camerawork, that it gets to overdone rather than "cool." They emphasize on the unimportant stuff (with the camera). It just doesn't work. The storyline is good, but some of the things they do to make this movie just blows. It's not a tv show that you would make a great effort to watch. You don't feel any deep connection with any of the characters. I don't feel any sympathy for any one of their problems, and I don't get much out of any of them that makes me want to watch their pathetic lives for the rest of this season.For all of the better shows that premiered this season, I give this show 6/10.

MovieGrl-16 Get Real is self explanatory. It's all in the name. It's REAL! Unlike the "popular" shows like Dawson's Creek (and I was using sarcastic quote marks), I, being a teenage girl, have never spoken the way Jen and Joey talk. Excuse me but aren't they in high school? My parents don't even talk like that! As quoted from Get Real: "Personally, I wouldn't be caught dead watching [Dawson's Creek] because there is nothing more obnoxious than self-aware teens who know more about life's great mysterious than their parents." Get real, is not only true to life, but it combines comedy with drama so perfectly I thought it was made by the same people who made Buffy (one of the best shows on TV right now!). Get Real, is witty, savvy, and above all it's not a melodrama like Dawson's Creek. Drama is good but melodrama's suck beyond the telling. Like I said Get Real is a great new show, with talent on the rise (especially Anne Hathaway)!