Once the nostalgia's out of the way, there's no there there; it's a waste of a strong cast. The only remotely likeable character is Tony, the dad; Barbara is a grating social climber and "feminist"; Jenny is an hysterical ninny, and Tim is a womanizing jackass. Emma's precocious, and that's all. I thought she was going to be the focus of the show, but she's incidental to it and substantively the show would have been no different if she had been written out completely.
The episode where the couples pretended to be gay to make friends with new gay neighbors was borderline offensive, and David and Dee, the black couple, were clearly thrown in as a PC nod; they were actually interesting, but they were reduced to cameos. The show never came together; it couldn't decide if it wanted to be The Wonder Years or a slapstick farce and it ended up doing neither one well.
The episode where the couples pretended to be gay to make friends with new gay neighbors was borderline offensive, and David and Dee, the black couple, were clearly thrown in as a PC nod; they were actually interesting, but they were reduced to cameos. The show never came together; it couldn't decide if it wanted to be The Wonder Years or a slapstick farce and it ended up doing neither one well.