Parenthood “Perchance to Dream” – Season 1 Episode 9
This show just keeps getting better and better. It starts out with something I’m sure most parents can all identify with. The little girl Sydney is lying to her parents and Julia her mom is calling her on it. Sydney makes up a story about how the dog Skip next door came in and knocked over the vase.
Julia is quite surprised because she says Skippy is off on the farm. Apparently he had a little run in with a car and hasn’t been seen since.
So there’s basically no way he could knock over the vase.
But the stalemate continues because Sydney will not budge. She has dug in her heels and so Julia decides that the vase will not be cleaned up until whoever broke it admits to breaking it.
Crosby is getting in deeper with his pseudo-family. He’s becoming more of a dad and also feeling a strong pull toward Jabbar’s mom. He doesn’t know how to proceed because he’s doing things backwards. He goes to his brother for some help but I don’t know if he really got what he felt like he needed.
Big brother Adam is having problems of his own. He gets a package from Victoria’s Secret which he assumes his wife ordered but comes to find out it was his daughter Hattie. So he’s a dad dealing with his 15-year-old daughter’s coming sexuality. Also his wife Christine is looking to get back into the job force because she has an offer from an old political candidate friend that she worked with many years ago.
We don’t see the grandparents in this episode any at all.
Sarah and her kids are both having their own little crisis. Sarah tells her daughter Amber she has to come do a catering job with her at Cal University. She’s really been pushing Amber to start applying to colleges.
Amber has been steadfast in her desire to skip college. Also Sarah’s son Drew is having some problems with this girl that he likes. He’s in the awkward stage where he doesn’t know how to talk to girls nor does he have any dance moves. There’s a dance coming up and he really wants to ask this girl he’s had a crush on for a long time.
Crosby decides to arrange a date which Jabbar’s mom. He clears it with Julia to watch Jabbar for them overnight and ends up hooking up with the mom. It seems a bit awkward in the morning so we know that more awkwardness is ahead for these two.
Sydney finally breaks and admits to breaking the vase.
Drew gets shot down when he does ask the girl to dance to dance with him. Haddie and her dad have a big blowup. And at the end of the episode Amber brings down the college catalog and suggests that her mom apply.
I don’t know how many more episodes they are going to do because May sweeps are already here but I hope there is at least 20 episodes in this season.
