I have a lot to say about this show. In the first few seasons Family Matters was very enjoyable. It centered around Harriette Winslow and her family in Chicago. However the show started to go downhill at the end of season 5 when Urkel started inventing and it lost the sense of reality. The episodes started to become more and more cartoonish.
To prove my point I want to compare some episodes from the first few seasons and the later seasons. Some episodes in the early seasons: when Harriett lost her job and the family was there to comfort her, Laura wanted to start a Black History curriculum, and another one when Harriett and Rachel found their father(these episodes contain the true concept of Family Matters). Then in the later seasons we have Stefan Urquelle, Steve cloning himself, teleporting the family to Paris, and Urkel, 3J, and Richie turning into Bruce Lee Urkel too unrealistic and the concept is buried. The series started to focus too much on Urkel's inventions and less on the Winslows.
Although Urkel was a funny character and he did add more humor to the show they overused him. The other characters needed a chance to shine more especially because the premise of the series is about the WINSLOWS! The disapperance of Rachel and Judy hurt the show. To make more room for episodes to revolve around Urkel they chose not to develop Judy's character and Rachel's character was starting to develop but then she left. Also the replacement of Harriette was horrible because she had no chemistry with anybody else on the show. Watching this show in the later seasons was sad because I think about when it first came out and the concept was there and the MAIN focus on the Winslow family.
To prove my point I want to compare some episodes from the first few seasons and the later seasons. Some episodes in the early seasons: when Harriett lost her job and the family was there to comfort her, Laura wanted to start a Black History curriculum, and another one when Harriett and Rachel found their father(these episodes contain the true concept of Family Matters). Then in the later seasons we have Stefan Urquelle, Steve cloning himself, teleporting the family to Paris, and Urkel, 3J, and Richie turning into Bruce Lee Urkel too unrealistic and the concept is buried. The series started to focus too much on Urkel's inventions and less on the Winslows.
Although Urkel was a funny character and he did add more humor to the show they overused him. The other characters needed a chance to shine more especially because the premise of the series is about the WINSLOWS! The disapperance of Rachel and Judy hurt the show. To make more room for episodes to revolve around Urkel they chose not to develop Judy's character and Rachel's character was starting to develop but then she left. Also the replacement of Harriette was horrible because she had no chemistry with anybody else on the show. Watching this show in the later seasons was sad because I think about when it first came out and the concept was there and the MAIN focus on the Winslow family.