So did you like the show, or are you just enjoying your "way with words" to dance around saying Thumbs Up or Down?

I watch this show, but if it does not get better than last week's episode, I will be gone. The best thing about it is Peter Krause, whom I admired in "Sports Night."

Sure it's a nighttime soap opera, but it's kind of fun to guess where the hinted incestuous relationship between the "well-behaved twins" is going, and we can't wait to see that hypocritical minister get his comeuppance. Besides, any show that debuts in a season that brings us "Cavemen" HAS to look good in comparison.

It's like Arrested development, but not as funny. Same dysfunctional rich family, different coast.

D$M is one of my guilty pleasures of television watching. Now that Viva Laughlin has been sh*tcanned, I only have Cane, Hotel Babylon and Torchwood as those sinfully trashy television programs we all secretly love.

It's a textbook case of why network television can't yet operate at the level of "The Sopranos" or "Mad Men" or "Six Feet Under" (in its good years.) The writing is surface, the characters are exactly who they are, etc.

"Six Feet Under" is relevant, of course, because that's where Peter Krause came from, and you can practically feel his frustration oozing through the screen playing with this lesser material. He used to be written smarter, poor guy.

Still, the show is very pretty (HDTV!), as are the people (a network requirement -- that Feldstein gal, hey now!) and Donald Sutherland and Jill Clayburgh as the family leaders bring back memories of their 70's movie stardom.

I'll watch it, sometimes. Like "Boston Legal." It's entertaining enough for free.

Feldman.

Tamara Feldman.

It is so much like Arrested Development I can't stop laughing. But I love it anways, because rich, crazy disfunctional families are hilarious, even when they aren't supposed to be.