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I love how vocal this show is about social issues and the fact it has so many diverse and interesting characters! But every episode I find myself skipping through at least 25% of it because it's either Callie having completely unnecessary intimate scenes, the made-up love triangle (which no one cares about) or screentime is wasted on her "lost in thought" about something that adds zero value to the story.. Mariana is meant to be the other main character but she gets half of Callie's screentime, while actually being charismatic and having something interesting to say. Give the rest of the characters the screentime they deserve and people might be more interested in this show!

The Fosters was awesome on many levels, and after 5 episodes my list of favourite shows now includes Good Trouble. I guess we all want varying things from the dramas we watch - so long as the stories are character driven and allow for personal growth, and the main characters are likeable, I don't mind spending time with one or two people I would avoid in real life. Some of Callie and Mariana's new loft mates are a bit abrasive, and their workmates are ****s, but without conflict there would be no story. At the beginning of the pilot episode Callie and Mariana are in the same outfits and UHaul they were in at the very end of The Fosters.

Cierra Ramirez is exceptionally talented, has great comic timing (a gift), and never murdered a line in 5 seasons of The Fosters. She's the perfect person to play Mariana - set up by the writers with a propensity to stretch the truth or delude herself, and with no respect for anyone's secrets but her own. These flaws often are what keeps the stories moving. She makes up for these unforgivable traits by being fierce, whether protecting someone she cares about or cutting through other people's BS. Her breakthrough moments and her sense of fun are highlights, for me.

No, Callie has never seemed promiscuous or needy to me, but then I've never understood why anyone would expect most people to become attached, engaged and married happily ever after to only one person in a lifetime (unless the story is set in the 16th century or something). I'm in my 60s and happy for these characters to act their age - gosh, I might even learn something when one of them makes a mistake.

The pace of the storyline seems less frantic than The Fosters.

Another thing I don't understand is reviewers who whinge and moan about the show's "liberal" values. Well, duh! If they find it all so unbearable why on earth don't they watch something else? It's like smacking yourself in the eye so you can resent having hands.

The setting and sets for this series are just yummy, and the art theme is a bonus. The sequence in 01x05 involving the 1957 photo from Arkansas (see... no spoiler!) is typical of the occasional treats I've come to expect from these prducers. My only wish is that, as we are getting a lot of flashback sequences, writers would find a way to make this slightly less confusing. As on The Fosters, I sometimes find myself wondering, not where, but when we are, in a story.

After the successful TV show "The Fosters" came to an end, this new show brings Callie and Mariana to Los Angeles. As you may know, the finale of "The Fosters" already jumped a few years forward and introduced Callie and Mariana as recent graduates who were planning on starting their careers in L.A. .

While this new show might try to present the lead characters in a more mature light, the initial steps of both Callie and Mariana in their new professional setting are still cluttered with some of their old habits. After their degrees and life-forming years at university, you can't really estimate how advanced Callie and Mariana could behave because many of their previous remnants from "The Fosters" show are still in their daily lives - like dating/boys or their lively dynamic with their mothers. One aspect, their unbound sisterly love and support for each other, is still as strong as before and carries over their belief that family always comes first.

Whether "Good Trouble" will be able to allow Callie and Mariana to mature beyond their foster years remains to be seen. The production quality, the new setting and promising story line are certainly a great start.

I really wanted to like this show because I enjoyed The Fosters, but I'm struggling. Good Trouble? More like Bad Decisions. Callie and Mariana continue to make one bad decision after another and they have surrounded themselves with a whole menagerie of people who do the same. They are supposed to now be a law school graduate and an MIT graduate. If they made decisions like they continue to do now while they were in college, neither would have graduated or landed their jobs. The writers are letting them down by continuing to write them as the teenage girls they were rather than the women they should have become.

I've never watched The Fosters and this show is more than amazing. It became my favorite show from the first episode

I imagined this would be a more juvenile show, but it's not. It focuses on the challenges of becoming an adult, and life as a whole. Issues on sexism at work, racism, lgbt community, relationship drama are all very well intertwined in the writing of the series. Good job, writers. And the scene editing is very refreshing. Give it a chance even if you haven't seen the Fosters, and if you have, you'll love this even more.

13 is not enough! I have never been urged to write something here before, considering i have been a member of imdb for more than a decade and being a real movie and tv buff, it is weird. But, this tv show is amazing. It embraces family, friendship and social awareness on such a level that i wish every second of it that it was real and it was my life. I really want to see everyone growing old and having a full life for the rest of my life. Keep 'em comin'!!

Seriously cool spinoff.This is what you always expect and never get from spinoffs.

I liked The Fosters mostly for its portrayal of a family led by two committed, married lesbians, living their lives. The focus was not just about them being gay. I will give Good Trouble kudos for continuing in covering the same types of important social issues and broad diversity of characters as The Fosters did. But Callie and Marianna? They have had zero character growth in 6 plus years of programming. They NEVER learn from their mistakes. They have made one bad decision after another, then when trouble follows, they lie or deploy avoidance/denial tactics. Every time. At the end of the day, all is forgiven and there are never any real consequences for years of bad choices. Success continues to be handed to them in spite of themselves. Surely they can be written as more complex and adult than this, after obtaining law and engineering degrees. I wanted to like this show, but have remained only to support the Alice/Joey storyline.

I would like 5 more seasons please!! First impression "great another teenage drama" I ran out of everything to watch while in quarantine and gave it a chance. Instantly feel in love! Dives into black lives matter, trans equity, and so many more subjects that are important.

I thought The Fosters was a far superior show to this. That being said, this show is enjoyable, but please do away with the lesbian comic storyline. They are not funny,( not one of them has uttered even once funny line, ever) and all they do is sleep around and stab each other in the back. The other running storylines are good, but please give these girls a break and give them something good to do, because none of them are comics. I cringe every time they start to do a set.

Great spin-off to the Fosters (which was one of my favorites). I didn't expect to like the spin-off, but thought I'd check it out. I've been really impressed all around, and am already feeling sucked in and ready for the next episode.

It's a good show for the genre, but the way they go back and forth between the past, present, and future with the different scenes makes it confusing as to what is happening when. It's just a weird way to write a show, I could see if it once once in a while but they do it every other scene it gets a little annoying. Also, the show is literally a drama about social justice, and it just seems the writers don't know how to do something else.

Look, I'm 62, and this series is definitely not targeting me. I'd say it's targeting 20-something women who want to watch spunky heroines overcome odds and have sex. And that's fine, because that's a market.

Even though I'm old, I do like some youth entertainment, like Euphoria or Impulse, but Good Trouble is pretty bubble-headed. I only took a look because I'd seen glowing reviews, but I found it pretty intolerable from the first 5 minutes.

Still, the thing's got lots of energy and cute leads (who look like high schoolers to me because everyone looks so damn young nowadays). So I won't say you should watch it, only that *I* shouldn't watch it.

Such a great show hope episode 14 come on hulu soon hope there ever more seasons to I banged watched it. It a great show

This show is amazing. The cinematography is beautiful, the cast is phenomenal in their roles, and the story lines are perfect for the world we're living in.. There are too many people complaining that they were fans of The Fosters, but are disappointed with the new show because it's "too different". If you want wholesome, go watch Fuller House, and let the rest of us enjoy this great show. I'm glad it isn't as cutesy as The Fosters was. It's a new show for a new age bracket; accept it, or don't watch.

This show is hot! The cinematography is super sexy and keeps you captivated. I can't wait to watch more.

Really impressed me, way better then The Foster's and just to see Jude made me happy. He is smart 😌, gifted and brings a side to the Gay Spectrum even though he is straight. I really hope he is on more episodes in the future I'm only in Episode 2.

Cheers to a real 18+++++ Genre show. Iam sure it will do great with the Demographic of the 18-30yr olds.

Good to see they aren't living the good life..

Can't wait to see how they take this show.

I probably should give a 5 out of 10 but, despite the problems, I find that I like the show. So, here are the issues I have with it: Too much (MUCH too much) flashback storytelling. Then there's the fantasy scenes - which pretty much always look the same as the flashback scenes, making them hard to differentiate (not to mention that Ally McBeal did it better back in the day). They have clearly glommed on to EVERY trope in the book and, most bothersome of all is that literally every storyline is, as noted above, beyond predictable. So far, the ONLY surprises have been 1. That, despite the issues noted above, I still like the show and 2. How long it took me to recognize Bryan Craig. I pegged Brandon Barash immediately - still miss him on GH!

Still, I say it's worth watching. Especially if you're a "20 something" person struggling with some of the same issues as the characters do.

I watched the fosters and now love this spinoff of the fosters.

Not all that impressed yet, but then again, I wasn't with The Fosters when it first started either, and I watched every episode of that show. We'll give it a chance.

I loved The Fosters and the way it finished but I am disappointed in the Callie and Marianna characters. They have had no growth or have matured at all. Callie still jumps into bed with the first guy and acts like she did when she was 17. Makes it hard to believe she has graduated law and now works with a judge. The show was okay but wouldn't be bothered if I missed episodes