...in its best traits. a provocative film. surprising episode by episode. proposing the right chemistry between characters, a not comfortable humor and a sort oof impecable architecture, from Lucas Neff to Cloris Leachman. sure, it could be defined eccentric and vulgar and bizarre. but its proposition is so simple - the liffe style of an ordinary family, out of each form of " make - up".

This is a great dysfunctional family sitcom. They're totally different from my nonfunctional family, so no bad memories are triggered. It's very creatively written, and the malapropisms are not the usual kind, and are very original, and also very believable sounding, causing me to replay those parts just to hear and enjoy them again.

I rated this a one out of ten because this show is straight garbage!! The stuff that they try to make funny in this show isn't even funny in fact I laugh at it because how sad and poorly this show was put together. Another reason why this show is horrible is because every day when my sister wakes up she plops herself down on the couch and watches at least three hours of this, and that's just the beginning. On average she watches about seven hours of raising hope each day!!!! On Netflix she has been through all 88 episodes twice in about two weeks. Raising hope is more that definitely taking over her life. When she is watching the show her eyes are ten inches deep into the TV screen. This is absolutely crazy!

The main thing in the show is Jimmy and Hope, the description on this site is "Jimmy becomes a single parent to an infant after the mother he had a one-night stand with ends up on death row.".I personally don't care too much about Jimmy's situation due to the extreme likability of Burt and Virginia and as I watched more and more episodes I saw the focus move to them more and in a lot of episodes Hope was just dumped of at day care or something. Then Shannon Woodard (Sabrina) came in started appearing more often and it took even more attention away from Jimmy and Hope. Burt & Virginia are the best couple on TV I've ever seen. I had no idea who Martha Plimpton (Virginia) was until this show but she is amazing. I'd love to see a show where it's just those 2 going about their lives. But yh, I could go on all day about this show. It's incredible so give it a go!