Series Review: GOOD AMERICAN FAMILY

Just so you know, I lasted 21 of the 59 minutes of Episode 1 of this new series on Hulu before I blew the raspberry and switched to a rerun of Raiders of the Lost Ark, which by the way is still great all these years later. And Harrison Ford was so young! Anyway, back to business....

Would you adopt this person?

Starring Ellen Pompeo of Grey's Anatomy and Mark Duplass from The Morning Show, I expected better. Instead they both disappointed from the opening moment. Ms. Pompeo looked like she had taken too much anxiety medication, not to mention being severely puffy-faced, and Mr. Duplass seemed to be lost in thoughts unrelated to the script, possibly thinking he might need a new agent.

The plot involves the two of them as an unhappily married couple who adopt a 7-year-old girl with dwarfism, sight unseen, because they want so much to add a girl to their family of three boys, one with autism, despite hardly being able to pay their bills already. The "girl" they adopt turns out to be some sort of monstrous liar, not a child after all, and very, very creepy.

Flash forward: The show opens with Ms. Pompeo, now a published author on parenting, being arrested for child abuse, with her shouting to the cops as they cuff her, "The bitch tried to kill me!" That was enough for me -- I guessed who the bitch was (see photo) and opted never to see her again.