EPISODE
SEASON
Casual - Season 1
Dramatic moments between a newly divorced mother and her daughter and went to live with her brother Haya and her daughter, Valerie begins fishing at home. Alex, in a misguided attempt to make them stay, decides to adopt a puppy just to know they are doing more than he expected. Valerie breaks Alex's rules in casual sex. Alex is interviewed about his website. Laura takes things up with an older man. My mother's siblings appear to create chaos and conflict, and strange clarity. Each member of the family has a different interaction.
1 October 1978, Milbridge, Maine, USA
20 April 1973, Elmhurst, Illinois, USA
25 May 1946, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
19 September 1989, Las Condes, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
22 January 1970, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
September 27, 2016
Casual, which takes a far lighter, snarkier, and often funnier tone than Transparent, never quite rises to the latter show's brilliance. But taken on its own merits, Casual is very, very good.
October 07, 2015
Casual also seems to be a mandate for the cast and creative crew behind this laid-back but thoughtful and well-observed comedy about love and family in the modern age.
October 08, 2015
Once the show taps into its questions of just why we continue to adhere to the same social structures we have for millennia when we ostensibly have other ones we could be trying, it becomes something much more special.
October 08, 2015
Only Watkins manages to realistically convey her character's exhaustion and disappointment with her life, reeling in the viewer who wants to see this embittered woman find the happiness we're sure awaits her in forthcoming plotlines.
October 07, 2015
But in the writing and in the performances, there's bottomless compassion for this family and its awkward efforts at healing itself.
October 07, 2015
In general, there's a solid cast on display here.
October 07, 2015
Casual falls into the more indie-dramedy category of television than anything else, so viewers looking for a neatly packaged, shiny family comedy can look elsewhere. But those seeking a bolder, fresher take can direct themselves to Casual.
October 13, 2015
Casual ventures into relatively unexplored territory and finds some fresh laughs and insights along the way. But it winds up in an unpleasant place.
October 16, 2015
Beyond genetic markers, the three core members of the show's central clan are united by their extremely comfortable attitude towards sex and equally extreme discomfort in their own skin.