Brenda
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
bkoganbing
One Day At A Time is how Bonnie Franklin took it with her new life as a liberated woman and divorcée. This show is one of the first where women predominate and they weren't scatterbrained fools like Lucy Ricardo.Still there was a lot of humor in this show with Bonnie Franklin trying to raise a family of two daughters on more than just her divorced husband Joe Campanella. She got herself a job and was around as much as possible for her two daughters Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli.The daughters were as different as could be. Phillips was a wild child and Bertinelli a good girl. That was an interesting part of the show, that two very different personality types could be with the children. Happens in a few million families across the globe. Over 9 seasons the girls went through a few boyfriends and got married, Phillips to Michael Lembeck and Bertinelli to Boyd Gaines.Making an occasional appearance was Franklin's mother Nannette Fabray. She was an old fashioned woman, who tried very hard to understand the new feminist philosophy. The janitor of their building was Pat Harrington, Jr. who was an alpha male, but over 9 seasons kind of softened his rough edges. I remember him addressing Franklin, Fabray, and Bertinelli as each preferred, Ms. Romano, Mrs. Romano, and Miss Romano. That summed up each of their outlooks on life.A lot of humor and a realistic look at the problems of single mothers with kids is what One Day At A Time is remembered for.
ricknelson53
This series was okay but I find it hard to watch for one reason: Bonnie Franklin. She is utterly charmless. In episode after episode, men all her irresistible. She is the opposite of attractive; she is repellent. I am not only referring to he negligible looks but her personality and her delivery.Every time she would utter her signature line "Oh my Gawd " stretching out "g-a -w-d ", i wanted to scream. And the ridiculous jokes about her having dyed her hair. She was obviously a redhead with her skin pigmentation. Why bother ?; it is not like Lucille Ball who was not a natural redhead. She is just so obnoxious.During the course of the original run she was reported to have held out for extra money because she was the "star "; this is one case where not only could she have been replaced by another actress, I wish she had been.
Syl
This show was a revolutionary in the women's movement. Bonnie Franklin played red head divorcée and mother of two teenage daughters who moves from Loganport, Indiana to the big city of Indianapolis. Her daughters are played by the wonderful, Valerie Bertinelli, and Mackenzie Phillips. They played Barbara and Julie. Remember Schneider who frequented the apartment as the building handyman. Nan Fabray who played Ann's mother. I loved Richard Masur as Ann's first boyfriend after her divorce. I thought he should have stayed on but it wouldn't work if Ann remarried so soon after the divorce papers were inked. I remember Shelley Fabares on the show as one of her co-workers as well as Mary Louise Wilson as a cocktail waitress neighbor. It was one of the few shows that I could recall was set in Indianapolis. I thought the show was well-written most of the time and the acting was worthy of the Emmys it received. They don't make shows like this. I remember the apartment layout most of all. Despite Phillips' substance problems, Valerie was truly a star in the making. The show grew and evolved and was well-loved by its audience.
Gentsyu
I just read a post about a 4-year-old remembering the first episode-it really was a great show & one of my favorites. I just wanted to comment about Mackenzie Phillips drug-use.Incidentally, I don't know if this is a "spoiler" or not, but just so I don't get "blacklisted" as it said beside the spoiler box, if you don't warn the readers, I went ahead & checked the box. Now, with Mackenzie living with her father, John & his wife, Michelle Phillips, of "The Mamas & the Papas," there was not much discipline or even early curfews for school nights, etc., I heard this straight from Michelle's lips on an interview. She said, "You know, I was pretty young, myself, I didn't know that Mackenzie really should have a regular curfew, rules, & there shouldn't be drugs lying around in every room-free for the taking-really, until I gave birth to Chynna, myself. I suddenly had all those 'mothering' instincts kick in & actually began arguing with John about Mackenzie's VERY free-rein lifestyle with him. I really feel that maybe she wouldn't have been fired for being hooked on the COCAINE-but this is eventually what led to the divorce, John just wasn't going to change-he would sit there & do drugs together with his daughter-which you may have heard Mackenzie herself say, on occasion. She did say she wasn't putting the responsibility on anyone else but herself, like, after they found out through her erratic behavior & excessive skin problems what was going on on the show's set & in her life, & they gave her a warning to get help, time off to do so, & they would write in her absence until she could come back. She DID clean up, but, living with her father, or even visiting, she was right back on it, & ultimately fired." Michelle is still close with Mackenzie & they are very active in keeping people, especially children-who don't ever have to start ANY drug under their parents' guidance & love-off of drugs. Now, I'm not saying-by any means-that Mackenzie never did heroin, I'm sure that was available-in fact, I can't think of ANY drug that may NOT have been available at John's house, except maybe some that have come along since he died, but, Mackenzies PROBLEM drug, the one she was addicted to during the course of the show was cocaine. It came out in the tabloids back when it happened, but also, Mackenzie herself has said straight-out that cocaine would have been the death of her, had she not gotten help, I think a FEW times, before she actually succeeded, & has been a wonderful wife & mother & advocate for a drug-free life ever since. I know something that you loved a lot at the age of 4, you WOULD remember, but maybe drug info is a bit less of something that would lodge in the brain in an exact manner! God Bless!
