intenselan-145-930862 Okay, is it me, or is everyone in there committing adultery on everyone else?! Seriously, no married person on here (with the exception of the Greek parents, and since there's still an episode left as of my review, that's still debatable) can keep it in their pants! Hector, Aisha, Connie, Harry, Gary, the lawyer, and I'm sure that I'm missing someone - good God almighty! Marriage vows get trampled on like they're nothing, and if people aren't slapping, they're rutting like zebras!! Even Aisha, when Hector told her he kissed an underage babysitter (hello?! Statutory rape anyone?!?), she calls it a "petty" offense and that he shouldn't have told her...never mind she had just gotten done getting busy in the hotel room with a colleague. As for the slap itself, Rosie is using her kid to fill emotional needs and it's really sick. She's mainlining alcohol and breastfeeding her 5-year old?? Ew. No wonder he's a holy terror. I was already cringing as she was reading a book to the kid and all cuddling with him and such...I thought she was going to make out with the kid! And who lets her husband drive drunk everywhere? Many people should get the taste slapped out of their mouths for wrecking this show, but I give it a 5 because I actually *do* want to see what happens next, so the 5 is for the car-wreck-rubberneck effect it's having on me.As for Hugo getting slapped, I don't believe in slapping a kid. Harry should have slapped the parents instead, over and over again. They couldn't be bothered to stop him from almost knocking another kid's teeth out with a bat, but boy did they run when the kid got slapped for kicking Harry in the shin.On second thought, I'll give this a 6, not a 5. In honor of Mr. Spock's anointed new-generation actor. Zachary Quinto is outstanding. His portrayal of Harry actually had me flinching when he rounded on his wife.

superso This Rosie character is the worst thing since that other character who (deservedly) slapped that wild kid. I'm debating who the more annoying character is - Rosie or her doctor friend, or the "violent" guy who looks like he weighs 120 pounds. I don't know who came up with this Rosie character but she's obviously a recent transplant to Brooklyn - friends with all these yuppies. Living in north Brooklyn, she's picked up in a few years a fake, heavy, ridiculous accent from bay ridge. How did that happen?? I haven't met a single yuppie or hipster or whatever with a bay ridge accent. They usually don't even go south of cortelyou or know any native Brooklynites! HORRIBLE CASTING!!

MaryLyn Hope I'm only half way through second episode and I'm in shock over Melissa George's character. She sits nursing a grown child who is obviously so ridiculously spoiled that virtually every thing he does is just darling in her eyes and he does no wrong. He is able to be rude and disruptive in addition to purposefully damaging the hosts property and his behavior is never corrected other than for her to shove her boob in his face and stroke his hair. One sick twisted mother there.Everyone attending that birthday party wanted to slap the child. I would rather slap the parents, the mother for obvious reasons and her husband for blindly going along with anything she says. The mother has some very serious emotional problems that leave her raging irrationally herself at the very idea someone put his hands on her child. He needs some serious behavior adjusting and learning consequences of his actions. I would have so much sympathy for an educator getting stuck with such a child in her class. It would shake the child's world to the core to be in a situation where 2 dozen other children are loved by their parents and have just as much right to be there and participate as he does. There would be a meltdown on day one of preschool which would have Melissa George's character charging in, bra-less, ready to get freaky with her child again.As for Harry, he could have gone in there on Valium and humbly offered apology and would have been met with the same disdain and "how dare you" attitude from Rosie and Gary because they have no intention of letting it go because they are out for blood from him.There will be no winners in this series. And its all because of a spoiled rotten child being allowed or rather encouraged by his parents to be as bratty as he wishes because it gives them a chance to coddle and baby him, because they are sick and need to attend parenting classes.Its not like me to jump on a soapbox but as soon as I saw a child with a mouth full of teeth sucking on the breast and turning away only to sneer and say something rude to an adult with no interception from either parent, my back was up right along with Harry's. I cannot believe there is a judge who would convict him of anything with regards to what occurred at the BBQ.

j-peragine I gave it 2 stars as Peter S. is a great actor so as a fan it warranted 1 extra star. This is exactly what's wrong with far too many parents in these times, sadly, no discipline. I raised 2 kids, never had to hit either one, but neither ever swung a bat or kicked an adult. The show could be summed up in 1 thought, the dad should have come downstairs to stop his kid, not watched as the other guy did it. I had parents like this over once, kid out of control, no one got hit. The source was easy to see in watching the parents lax reaction to their bratty kids behavior. It all stems from this doctor Spock 'coddle your kids to death' mentality. The Today Show recently had a segment on how 20 somethings in the workplace crumble under any criticism from their bosses, we're raising a bunch of thin skinned kids that have a sense of entitlement no preceding generation in America has seen. So remember, parents who think being a friend is all that matters, you do your kids no favors. Thanks for letting me vent, back to the show. OK, so now that the slap is over and being fought over on screen it begs the question, how do you make an entire series out of this? Seems this could have been a 10 minute show, point to the bad parents, end of show. That said I'd never hit someone else's kid, but if one kicked me in the shin I can't say I wouldn't smack his dad around right after for being such a bad disciplinarian. So I suppose they have no hopes for a season 2, as again I can't imagine how this story line goes beyond 2 episodes.