![]() Outside, are the new neighbors who are just moving in. ![]() He chases after her clad in a cardigan, his underpants and socks to get her phone number. Leslie is quite impressed, and moments later they’re back in his bedroom and she’s on top of him.Ī phone call from her daughters interrupts, and she rushes out. There he lies even more stating to the group that he has a son, Jonah, who has survived leukemia. He lies and tells her he is a single father so he can follow her into a single parent talk circle. To set the show in motion, he leaps off a cable car in order to chat up a beautiful blonde, a cellist, played by Leslie Bibb. In this series he’s based in San Francisco and owns a home as he once wrote a popular Christmas song, and in his words – made a ton of money. He loves a good time, but at the first sign of a relationship moving from fun to semi-serious – he moves on. So this show might be related to Two and a Half Men – as in a distant cousin, and only as a much kinder and gentler version. He is irresponsible, kind of a layabout, and has considerable interest in members of the opposite sex. He’s in his late 20’s, or maybe just over the border into a neighborhood called The Early Thirties. In short, it is about a young man – played by David Walton called Will. The first one is called About a Boy, and is based on the 2002 Hugh Grant film of the same title which was based on a Nick Hor nsby best-selling novel. After all, NBC gave Ironside, only three episodes this past fall before axing the show. Of course NBC with their obsession with ratings, may not give these shows enough time to succeed. Given the strong lead-in of The Voice, these family shows were slotted perfectly. No doubt they will hug you back, earnestly.NBC launched two shows in the 9:00 PM and 9:30 PM slots Tuesday night. If you like very obvious, very simple lessons in your family comedies, then by all means embrace Growing Up Fisher and its BFF, About a Boy. Together, they’re just undermined by, well, syrup. Elfman makes another solid statement that she should be in something much better (this coming off her fine work in 1600 Penn she hasn’t lost any of her comedy chops). Simmons does his usual solid work in this role, and he’s got all the physical comedy in the playing blind (and faking sight) bits. If that tendency is increased, you’ve definitely got a huggy pair of sitcoms on your hands. But I’m also very wary of About a Boy, given that the second episode is from the same Fisher DNA. And, to its credit, there are funny jokes in the three episodes I watched (whereas I didn’t laugh once in two episodes of Growing Up Fisher). It’s like a candy-gram bit of counterprogramming.Īctually, that can’t be completely true because About a Boy, when it’s good - meaning when it’s not trying to be super fuzzy sweater - has its caustic elements. Compared with what Fox and ABC are offering, maybe the thinking is that people need less sarcasm and negativity in their lives. Both About a Boy and Growing Up Fisher are feel-good comedies. I mean, these kinds of soft, sentimental comedies with little learning lessons are all the rage (well, sure, they used to be … now, like The Goldbergs, they come with more palatable doses of snark to leaven the sweetness and provide a whole lot more laughs).īut as a strategy, I get what NBC is trying to do. And what I took from that was that I’d never watch the third one. I’m not sure that’s what I took from it, but I did watch the second episode as well. This allows for 22 minutes of story about how Henry really isn’t useless, but Elvis will help his dad through this new phase and everybody will be happy. Once the separation/divorce news hits, Dad has to get a dog named Elvis and Henry feels useless. When we meet Henry, he’s like a “wingman” to his dad. Although she kind of wants to be best friends with her daughter, Katie ( Ava Deluca-Verley). Simmons, The Closer), who’s an attorney and Joyce ( Jenna Elfman, 1600 Penn, Dharma & Greg), who is something I can’t recall because I was flossing so I wouldn’t get a cavity. The series is narrated by Jason Bateman ( Arrested Development), who provides the grown-up voice of Henry (he’s also executive producer).Ĭreated by DJ Nash ( Up All Night, Bent) and inspired by his own life story, Growing Up Fisher is about 12-year-old Henry ( Eli Baker) and his two parents: blind father Mel ( J.K. And the soft goo of life lessons (really obvious ones) encasing you like a caramel hug. In any case, that’s not entirely important or all that the show is about. Well, the father has always been blind - he’s just hiding it from the rest of the world until he and his wife separate. Growing Up Fisher is about Henry, a boy coming of age with a blind father.
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