Old Dogs is a show with a lot of heart. It, refreshingly, presents gays as human and not as cloying metaphors. The characters have flaws but the flaws are not written to clumsily TEACH US VALUABLE LESSONS. I'd give the show ten stars just for dodging that movie of the week wheeze. The creator obviously likes his characters, so as one gets into the swing of the show one realizes, with relief, that no one is going to be "punished" to drive home A Message The Audience Needs To Hear. Ten stars, too for not equating the accouterments of heterosexuality with the road to happiness for gays. No character is going to impregnate a woman and live happily ever after in A New Kind Of Family. Ten Stars for not presenting gays as Fabulous Accessories For Straight Women. It is funny and well written and does not project contempt for its characters.
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