The CW/WB/UPN (whatever it's called) network is back.... and I have a new favorite show. Okay, a "favorite" is pushing it. It did just make it to the season pass on my DVR, so let's call it a very nice surprise. The CW hasn't had a good unique scripted drama since UPN and the WB have merged. (The new 90210 and Melrose Place do not count as they are complete rip-offs of old favorites... yet I watch both and completey enjoy them. Confession: They too are on DVR season pass). Over the last 5 years, I've had to question "Where did Dawson go?" "Felicity...where are you?... Please come back to the network". I'll even take short-haired season 2 Felicity. Dawson-Joey-Pacey...Miss you. Ben-Felicity-Noel... Love you. Those were solid shows of teen/college angst. I loved every storyline, every song played, every character, every moment at Capeside, every cup of Joe at Dean & Deluca.. They spoke to us in the late 90's, early 00's. And I've been searching for something like it. I THINK I may have found it...
Life Unexpected is the new drama on The CW and it has completely struck a chord with me. It's a pretty simple concept: Thirty-somethings Cate Cassidy(Roswell's Shiri Appleby) and Nate "Baze" Bazile (The North Shore's very hot Kristoffer Polaha) had a baby in high school and gave her up for adoption. She was the class president, goody two-shoes who had sex with the high school quarterback. (They were only about 15 at the time, so you won't be turned off from the story) Cate is now a successful local DJ and Baze is a not-so-successful bar owner. Fifteen years later, after spending years in foster care, their daughter, Lux, knocks on the doors of her birth parents in an effort to become an emancipated minor. (Lux is played by a very talented Britt Robertson who you may have seen in the the Steve Carrell film Dan in Real Life.) Somehow Baze and Cate are granted temorary custody of their daughter, and once they all re-connect, you start to fall in love with them and this show. It is then, they start to give Lux the family she's always wanted. Right away, you are hoping Cate and Baze will re-unite and fall in love, their chemistry is fantatic... BUT of course every good show has the perfect formula: There has to be a love triangle and in this case it involves Ryan, Cate's fellow radio show DJ and boyfriend, Ryan (played by a gorgeous and older Kerr Smith, Dawson Creek's gay Jack McPhee). And you LIKE Ryan... so of course, you have a perfect little drama. It's simple: It's about family...a family that got a late start. It is witty and FUNNY and I find myself smiling from start to finish. Maybe you will too. AND it looks like I have my new love triangle.. it's no Brenda-Dylan-Kelly, but it definitely makes me happy.
Check it out... Life Unexpected... Mondays at 9pm on The CW!
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