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- ABC Family
- Jun 8, 2015
- ABC Family
- Jun 8, 2015
Summary The reality series follows the journey of 17-year-old Ben as his father Charlie transitions to becoming Carly.
- ABC Family
- Jun 8, 2015
- ABC Family
- Jun 8, 2015
Summary The reality series follows the journey of 17-year-old Ben as his father Charlie transitions to becoming Carly.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
68
75% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
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0% Negative
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It's not just a gripping family story--it's an important one for all families to watch. [12 Jun 2015, p.70]
Becoming Us, which is successful both as education and entertainment, vividly demonstrates that although some of Ben’s issues are unique, many are typical.
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33% Positive
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It can often be trite and repetitive. But triteness and repetition characterizes a lot of everyday life, and the debut does an excellent job of giving us a portrait of Ben as a Midwestern teenager whose natural adolescent self-consiousness has been increased to near-paralysis as he comes to terms with his father’s new life.
Fortunately, the main players are compelling enough to overlook the inevitable strains that come from shoehorning any real life into a television series.
Becoming Us suffers from poorly cut segments that might give you flashbacks to the ’90s seasons of MTV’s “Real World.”
Credit Becoming Us for not skimping and showing the impact of changing genders on the children of trans parents in seemingly stark realness, but it's uncomfortable to watch a child endure such life changes publicly.
The series resides at its own kind of crossroads: a serious project that aspires to foster greater understanding of and sensitivity toward the transgender community as well as those close to them, but which--by indulging in some of the bad habits endemic to this form of unscripted fare--itself remains a work in progress.
