But, what it doesn’t have is a theme or anything for the viewer to latch on to. Modern families are comprised of different cultures, different sexualities and parents of varying age.
LIFE IN PIECES CAST TV
Among CBS’ nine sitcoms this TV season, it only. It showed how their is no such thing as Leave It to Beaver anymore. Thus far this spring, Life in Pieces is averaging a 0.84 demo rating and 5.8 million total viewers, down 24 and barely 10 percent from Season 3. The same was true of Modern Family when it first aired. Each of them was thematically compatible (focusing on anger and revenge), but they as a whole also captured some of the zeitgeist of modern day Argentina (political corruption, wealth divide, etc).
Take Wild Tales, last year’s Oscar nominated film from Argentina that had six standalone stories. But here’s why I don’t think this will work: the show doesn’t really have any reason to exist. Two of them actually had me reading to see how they would conclude (the second one, about sex after a newborn, was a little underwhelming). Now the individual stories themselves were pretty good. There’s also no talking head shots, an overdone narrative crutch that actually provides Modern Family with some of its funniest moments. The scenes play out longer and there isn’t any crossover until that aforementioned fourth section. Unlike Modern Family, this tells three distinct stories to conclusion before the fourth story which shows the family relationship that ties the stories together (spoiler: three of the characters are siblings). The first thing we should discuss is structure. Perhaps Life in Pieces can fill that void. While family comedy has been revitalized by a focus on diversity stories & casting, a successor to the Modern Family style of storytelling has not emerged. This logline, while generally vague, sounds exactly like Modern Family. I think we can all agree Modern Family is getting a little long in the tooth. But maybe CBS is finally trying to diversify? It’s also a single cam show, which has goes against the prevailing CBS multi-cam trend. Life in Pieces is produced by Fox Studios, while most CBS pilots emanate from either CBS or Warner Bros. Studio: 20th Century Fox Television, Kapital EntertainmentĪn interesting pick up from CBS.
LIFE IN PIECES CAST MOVIE
on where the movie was filmed and the cast who brought the movie to life. Logline: Written on spec, the comedy centers on one family as told through separate stories of its different family members.Ĭast: James Brolin, Colin Hanks, Betsy Brandt, Dianne Wiest, Thomas Sadoski, Zoe Lister Jones, Angelique Cabral, Giselle Eisenberg, Dan Bakkedahl, Holly Barrett, Niall CunninghamĬreators: Writer/Executive Producer Justin Adler ( Better Off Ted) Executive Producer Aaron Kaplan Director/Executive P Jason Winer Pieces of Her: Netflix release date, trailer, who is cast with Toni Collette.