An American Family

* I watched both the full 12-hr version and the truncated 2-hr version* Margaret Mead: “…an extraordinary series…nothing like it has ever been done…as new and significant as the invention of drama or the novel.” She’s not wrong. This is an impressively powerful message about the good of the nuclear family - which since the 1970s has become demonised - that also necessarily involves the sort of demise of this particular nuclear family. I really do like the Louds, all of them. Essential viewing.