Parenting & Family Quote by Stephen Collins

Collins is selling two things at once: taste and safety. Calling the script "the best I'd read in a long time" is standard actor-speak, but he sharpens it with a small confession of surprise: the humor "which I wasn't expecting". That detail does rhetorical work. It frames the show as smarter than its premise, a pleasant ambush rather than a calculated sitcom product, and it positions Collins as a discerning reader who can still be delighted.

The real pitch, though, is parental. "My six year old daughter can see the show" isn’t just a domestic aside; it’s a cultural credential. In TV terms, he’s advertising a rare commodity: family-friendliness that doesn’t feel like a lecture. The phrase "without being, you know, protected from it" gestures at the era’s anxiety about media contamination, then shrugs it off with a conversational "you know" that invites the audience to share the same weary skepticism about overprotective gatekeeping. He’s arguing that this show won’t force parents into the exhausting role of censor and translator.

Subtext: the humor is wholesome but not sterile, the conflicts are legible to adults without requiring adult content, and the show is safe because it’s emotionally, not morally, complicated. In context, this is an actor aligning himself with a brand of TV that wants to feel modern yet broadly acceptable - a promise that the writing has bite, but not teeth marks.