From the moment you are born, your family is chosen for you. The people who you will be connected to by blood for the rest of your life. While you can’t choose your family I was truly lucky to grow up in a wonderful loving family with my mom and step-father. As an only child they were my role models, friends and board game challengers.
This month Netflix is celebrating the kaleidoscope of family possibilities—start with parents (maybe two dads, a single mom, or a stay at home dad…), add a dash of half/step/full/adopted siblings, a side of grandparents, a pinch of aunts, uncles, cousins, a splash of pets, topped off with close friends (and all the combinations thereof). Now you’ve got a modern family — each uniquely quirky — yet picture perfect in its own way.
Grace and Frankie, Netflix’s new funny and fearless original comedy featuring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston, is a perfect example of how today’s families can shift, rearrange and blend in unexpected ways. When Grace and Frankie’s husbands leave them after 40 years of marriage—to be with each other—the women find themselves facing a change they never expected. They shift their perspective to get through it together, with the support of their new blended family and, of course, a sense of humour.
Like Grace and Frankie a sense of humour is definitely essential to enjoying your family! That and some great shows to watch together. Here are our pics for this month on Netflix:
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I love watching how the “traditional” family is being thrown out the window and movies are now reflecting the family mix of family in our modern society. I saw that Jane Fonda was in a new movie, but now that I know the plot line, I’m definitely going to need to watch this one!
Yes! I agree! And Grace and Frankie is awesome!
I’ve started watching Full House with my daughter, she loves it and I love re-watching one of my favourite shows from when I was a kid. Netflix always has so many great shows to watch. It’s fun to have all those choices at your fingertips.
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I love that you can get the good old shows. It would be so fun to watch Full House again with my kids! :)
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Thanks for the head’s up, I had not noticed this new series on Netflix! My husband are right at the end of a series that we’re watching on Netflix, and it’s time to find a new one–glad to give this one a try.
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This show looks really interesting, seen it on netflix and I keep telling myself I have to watch it!