“Sadly, I know everything that these people will say and do for the next two hours.” “There seems to be something in their genetic makeup that makes them think that story is frickin’ hilarious,” Jen says. Colleen looks to Jen for further explanation, and Jen points out the harsh truth: This is just one of many, many instances to come where anyone missing Short DNA will simply not get the fam’s sense of humor.
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The entire family - sans Jen and Colleen - crack up when they go on to explain the backstory behind the dish. In the preview clip above, the latest Short family feast begins with Joan pulling a trick on Greg that involves a rooster plate. 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.Jen has suffered through, er, enjoyed, a lot of Short family brunches through the years as Greg’s wife, and in the “Musical Motel Property Bingo” episode of Life in Pieces airing Thursday, she’s giddy to realize she now has a partner with whom to mock her in-laws’ quirky ways. 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.
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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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