![]() ![]() ![]() That means that after their first date, Matt tries to bring her home to close the deal, only to be interrupted by his parents. ![]() He gets close with a recent divorcee (Angelique Cabral) who still lives with her ex ( Jordan Peele, who is suddenly everywhere). After a bad patch in his personal life, he’s forced to move back home with his parents and start dating. Hanks and his wife (Zoe Lister-Jones) just had their first child whereas Brandt and her husband (Dan Bakkendahl) have three children, the first of which is about to go off to college.Īs for Sadoski’s character, Matt, he suffers a series of indignities in the show’s first episode. Wiest and James Brolin play the parents and their three children, played by Fargo’s Colin Hanks, Breaking Bad’s Betsy Brandt, and Sadoski, are at different stages of their own lives. We have four opportunities every show to tell a great beginning, middle, and end funny story or a touching story … Our format is going to be a really strong thing for us.” “We don’t have to get stuck into a very specific formula. The show is rightfully madcap in parts, with some ribald humor and set-pieces, but it can all come off as kookiness for kookiness’ sake at times, especially the final story, which essentially rips the show out of any believable reality and firmly sets it into “sitcom world.“I think that the possibilities for it are limitless,” Sadoski says, adding that he doesn’t think the conceit will be limiting. During the second short – starring Colin Hanks and Zoe Lister-Jones as all-too-new parents – I wrote the phrase “frozen vagina glove” in my notes. I don’t want to spoil too much about the three other short stories presented in the pilot, but I’ll mention one thing. They have to fend off her ex (Jordan Peele) and his parents (James Brolin and Dianne Wiest, both playing a little too close to the eccentric grandparent trope). The show’s first vignette centers around Matt Short (Thomas Sadoski) and his adventures one night, post-date, to find a sufficient place to hook up with his new girlfriend. Life in Pieces is occasionally humorous and well-acted, but in searching so desperately for a reason to appear different, it only distinguishes itself as one of the most unmemorable sitcom debuts so far this fall. Or, in more obvious terms, it’s Modern Family with title-card act breaks. ![]() Every week.” In layman’s terms, this is a micro-anthology with overarching familial connections between each character. The new CBS series proclaims it will focus on “one big family. Last year, we got Manhattan Love Story, which assumed the world wanted to know what two brain-dead twenty-somethings thought about everything. This show can be referred to as “the gimmick” – it’s a sitcom in which everything is by-and-large normal and traditional until the show’s candy-coated calling card is introduced, meant to upend expectations and revitalize the format (but that at the end of the day ends up doing neither). Most are by-the-books takes on classic tropes that, if nothing else, abide so closely to formula they end up entertaining because of it (Fox’s Grandfathered, for example), but each year there’s usually one outlier. Every fall, a handful of new sitcoms emerge, eager to bump out returning classics with a new slate of wacky, irreverent characters in wackier and more irreverent situations. ![]()
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