The Trades/ R.J. Carter reports:
The cast of Life Unexpected gathers more players in this week’s episode, “Rent Uncollected.” Now that Nate (Kristoffer Polaha) and Cate (Shiri Appleby) have established joint custody of their newly-discovered teenaged daughter, Lux (Brittany Robertson), the rest of the family learns of the situation, due largely to Cate’s situation being being outed on her radio program through a call-in from Cate’s narcissistic therapist sister, Abbie.
Now not only does Cate’s boozehound of a cougar mother (Cynthia Stevenson) know about Lux, but so do Nate’s uppity old-money mom and dad — and none of them think Cate and Nate are mature enough to raise a child (even for two years — Lux will be eighteen in two years, after all). Abbie is simply annoying in her analysis of the two, but Nate’s father (Robin Thomas) has a bit more pull: he owns the building in which Nate has established his bar, and the rent is late this month. Making no bones about how he feels about Nate’s irresponsibility, he threatens to evict Nate, removing the main source of his income needed to care for Lux.
The stress of the extended family conflict adds to the already growing unease for Lux, who isn’t used to being parented — certainly not by parents who show concern about the school she goes to (which is described as a feeder system for the state penitentiary) and the friends she hangs out with, including Bug, her tattooed motorcycle riding boyfriend. Perhaps the old plan of running away to Mexico with her friends wasn’t such a bad idea after all? read more
Judy Manning @ Series.nu reviews the third episode and here is a snipit from the article:
The dinner conversation heats up when both Baze and Cate’s family agree that neither of them are capable of raising a child. Baze and his father have an argument about the fact that Baze can’t even pay rent on the bar which by the way he hasn’t paid this months’ rent. All the fighting causes Lux to bail on dinner and sneaks out of the dinner to ride off with her boyfriend, Bug (Rafi Gavron).
Will Baze come up with the rent or will his father make good on shutting down the bar?
Tune into the CW Mondays 9/8c to watch the new hit series ‘Life Unexpected’ and you will be pleasantly surprised at how fast you fall in love with the cast and their charismatic chaos. read entire review here
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