I'd Say It's A Fair Review....

[The Magistrate]

[EYESORE 9001]

1. It's also a fair summation of my life

If you substitute 60s for 20s

[Joinfortmill]

2. LOL, me too.

[cachukis]

3. How do you get that into the brains who need it most?

[JohnnyRingo]

4. Read me like a book.

I'm in the final season though. A lot of the original characters are still there, but many have spun off their own series or have been canceled altogether.

Unfortunately, the first season was the barn burner. That was the one to watch. Since then the plot has become tedious, arcane, and ritual, often times resorting to long naps and stale dad jokes.

Tune into my latest Great Grand Sequel for new antics and adventures coming your way soon..

[Farmer-Rick]

5. Hell, I would say I have had 5 seasons

Each with it's own strengths and weaknesses.

There's childhood me. A crazy jumble of hormones and emotions. Not knowing much, trying to figure things out.

There's 20s me. A hard worker, graduating from college, joining the Navy. Working to get promoted. Getting some rank.

There is Naval Officer me, getting more promotions, feeling proud of my work, getting married, having young children.

There's half retired me. Focusing on my teenage kids, building a permanent home on the farm. Kids going to college and graduating.

Then there is for real retirement me, over 60, losing my spouse, trying to keep an aging body and mind healthy. Doing only the work I want to.

Once you learn how to do one season, they change it on you, and you have to rewrite the script.

[orangecrush]

6. ...

[Marthe48]

7. I don't mind watching reruns

especially seasons 2-5. Season 6 jumped the shark :/

[nuxvomica]

8. Yes, but then again, I have this lovely quote

"When you see someone,
and you really see them,
you see the kid
who used to be them."

from the movie Amsterdam.

[rlegro]

9. But also, in any "life" series.....

Very apt metaphor that made made laugh. I would just add, based on reality: The financiers and producers also start messing with your story in later seasons, trying to build up ratings and audiences -- for their own sake, not so much yours. They hire and fire production staff more frequently. Later on they cut even more costs, give up pricey location shooting for bad studio settings, rewrite old scripts, and start pursuing a cross-purposes approach of inoffensive, dumb episodes along with a few spectacular, out-of-place episodes, again in an ultimately futile effort to rebuild lost praise and viewership. Eventually the network airing your life series cancels you, but sometimes you're picked up by a cable channel or streaming service that sees value in cranking out more episodes in order to get you into re-run heaven.