It's the subversive nature of how we deal with family values. I think what's really exciting about the show is the nonjudgmental look we have on our characters. It enables us to dramatize the way a family works without being cynical.

There are feminist analogies in the material. They find their power with and in each other.

They tore down the walls that separated the houses. It is very much in a state of limbo They have gotten to the point of tearing it apart and putting it back together. It is very much like their lives.

As well expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life-all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own.

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

They're far more motivated than the general population here, and they have stronger family values.