Well it was highly melodramatic and sappy. It’s not a question of nothing dark happening but how its presented. ‘The Sound of Music’ is filled with Nazis but that doesn’t make it ‘dark.’ I love TSOM as well btw.
Well they did always have that “we’ll get through it” Waltons spirit. But by year 5 or 6 the stuff they were getting through was just brutal, it went from being saccharin to character torture. Which is about when I stopped hating the fact that mom made me watch it.