First let me say that I did like this show. It's got a lot of great parts to it and the cast is fantastic. I thought the Female Lead ended up with exactly the right person and could not see her with anyone else. Not everyone agrees with this, but I felt like there was no other person that they were actively connecting her with than the one she ends up with. It was great! The friendship between the 5 leads was the best part of the show and anytime they were together were some of the best scenes.

My only real issue is that the episodes are SUPER long. Each one is at least and hour and a half and some are longer. There are a lot of family story lines that were simply not needed and if they had been left out the series would have had much more manageable episodes. Don't get me wrong...all the parents and side characters are needed for the series, but not all the story lines connected to them. They gave a well rounded family story, but for me, SOME (not all) just made the series too long and didn't really add anything to the main stories which is where I wanted to focus. Since there are already 5 main characters, their stories alone were a lot to keep up with without the superfluous ones.

Overall, I liked this show fine, but it won't be on my top ten list or anything. By the end I was longing for it to be over because it just felt so long. As I said though...I'm in the minority.