The way they introduced them was terrible. Rick literally picked Mel up in a bar. Their "romance" was SO blah. You would think there would be something sexy about meeting like that, but they had the most insipid conversation. Like what kind of movies they liked. So boring.
I don't recall the parents being used signficantly in storylines. (Though I DO remember the mother ending up in one of Reva's past lives during the time travel story, ugh).
It was the same losing strategy they used with the faux Bauers: stick these people in and hope they click with the audience.
The fact that they had to make Rick suddenly dying of a heart condition no one knew about before--to the point he needed a transplant (and don't even get me started on THAT) shows that they had to make it entirely plot driven because there was little to nothing to draw on from the characters.
The reason the Lewises quickly became a permanent part of GL is because they immediately wove the characters into storylines: Billy and Alan's rivalry, which was both about Spaulding and Vanessa, Mindy dropped into a quadrangle with Phillip, Beth, and Rick, Josh feeling like the odd Lewis out, and then Reva rolling into town and throwing a grenade on the whole thing. A lot of this came from character.
I want to give them credit for introducing a Black family to the show, but just doing that wasn't enough.
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