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| The Fosters cast: David Lambert, Teri Polo, Sherri Saum, Jake T. Austin, Cierra Ramirez & Maia Mitchell Photo: TV.com/The Fosters |
The show, created by Brad Bredeweg and Peter Paige and exec. produced by Jennifer Lopez, centers around a multicultural family mix of foster, adopted, and biological children being raised by a lesbian couple.
We meet the heroine, Callie (Maia Mitchell), in the pilot who's shown being beaten on her last day in juvenile detention. One half of our couple, the motherly Lena (Sherri Saum), decides without her partner, Stef (Teri Polo), to take Callie in as a foster child.
Throughout the episode viewers find out - along with the family - of Callie's past and how she got into juvi in the first place. Callie confronts her past head on near the end of the episode - which makes for a pretty explosive ending I might add.
There have been gay couples on TV before - hello Modern Family and The New Normal - but this family is, by far, the most diverse and probably most risky for ABC Family to put out there.
You not only have a lesbian couple but an interracial lesbian couple. Just a few days ago, an interracial couple portrayed in a Cheerios commercial received a lot of backlash. To top it off, one son is from a previous marriage while the rest of the children have been adopted or are in foster care - all of which are diverse in their own right.
You not only have a lesbian couple but an interracial lesbian couple. Just a few days ago, an interracial couple portrayed in a Cheerios commercial received a lot of backlash. To top it off, one son is from a previous marriage while the rest of the children have been adopted or are in foster care - all of which are diverse in their own right.
It was a huge risk for ABC Family - but it paid off.
The show won me over from the start with its very simple scenes and brilliant acting from all. Scenes such as at the end of the pilot where Stef and Lena discuss - while Stef grabs some string cheese and pulls off a piece - if they're pushing adopted twins Jesus (Jake T. Austin) and Marianna (Cierra Ramirez) too hard to meet their biological mother.
Albeit mundane, the string cheese moment shows this multicultural family being just that - a family. And that's what makes this show great.
Watch on ABC Family Mondays at 9/8c
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