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Catch Up on LIFE UNEXPECTED
Jan 31st
Episode THREE: Rent Uncollected
COMING MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 on CW!
When Baze (Kristoffer Polaha) tells his parents (guest stars Robin Thomas and Susan Hogan) about Lux (Britt Robertson), they insist on planning a dinner at which they can meet their granddaughter and Cate (Shiri Appleby). Cate reluctantly agrees to go to the dinner and is further annoyed when her overbearing mother (guest star Cynthia Stevenson) and neurotic sister (guest star Alex Breckenridge) show up unexpectedly. Meanwhile, when Cate (Shiri Appleby) hears about a gang fight at Lux’s school, she immediately decides to have Lux transferred to her and Baze’s (Kristoffer Polaha) alma mater, Westmonte. Kerr Smith and Austin Basis also star. Executive producer Gary Fleder directed the episode written by executive producer Liz Tigelaar.
Life Unexpected Soundtrack: Season One
“We were just hanging out.” – Lux
“That’s how you hang out – you let some random guy suffocate you with his mouth?” – Baze
“A guy named ‘Bug’ didn’t raise some concerns?” – Baze
“The only Spanish word she knows is ‘nachos’.” – Lux
“Ryan, how do you date her without killing her?” – Baze
“I just, I don’t even know what I did that was so wrong. What? Was it that I got you into a good school or that I didn’t let you dry-hump spiderneck guy?” – Cate
Britt Interview: Fond Memories
Jan 31st
photo credit: deidhra fahey
GirlsLife.com interviews Britt Robertson from Life Unexpected:
Speaking of families, what’s life really like for the stars of the show? We caught up with 19-year-old Britt Robertson, who plays Lux, and had her dish on her own clan. What makes her mom so great? What does she love most about her BFF? Read on to find out…
Fond Memories
“We have a mirror [in our trailers] with lights and stuff so I tape pictures of my room and bed, my stuffed animals that I didn’t bring with me, my mom and family. I think all of us do this actually because Shiri [Appleby] has the same thing. Also, my best friend made me this collage of pictures of my friends and me right before I left at my going away party. [That’s in there, too].”
Home is Where the Heart is
Britt’s originally from South Carolina. So what’s it like visiting home when not busy working on the west coast? “I go home maybe twice a year, so when I go home, I cherish every single second that I have with my family,” she says. “It’s this amazing feeling, like happiness and gratitude and warmth. I just love the simple things like eating southern comfort food. We don’t have [food] like that in L.A. so it’s nice to go home and have my family cook for me.”
Monday: Rent Uncollected 1.03
Jan 31st
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
VOODOO Doughnut
Jan 29th
In episode 2: Home Inspected we learn that Bug’s friend, Gavin, works at Voodoo Doughnut. Here’s the scoop:
Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson and Tres Shannon have been friends for awhile. They always wanted to start a business together. Something that would fit into an extraordinary Portland business climate. Something fun, different, and one for the ages. After much searching under rocks, tequilas, and women’s blouses, they found what they were looking for… doughnuts!!
Cat Daddy with his stunningly brilliant business sense, and Tres with his seemingly endless supply of connections, set forth to conquer Old Town, Portland, and the world!!
They set out for the sunny Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera, California, where they met up with some doughnut masters, and learned about doughnuts from the ground up. These old, grizzled doughnut veterans knew what they were doing and were barely willing to give up their trade secrets at first. But the charm and good looks of our Portland heroes eventually won over the doughnut masters, and the secrets were revealed to them. read more
All About MATH: lifeUNEXPECTED
Jan 29th
Danielle from My Life, Made Possible By Pop Culture scored this awesome interview with Austin Basis, much more here.
Do you know what his name actually is and where he got this nickname??
- Well, it comes out later. It’s not like a big, crazy mystery, but when I first saw it I thought it was because he’s a nerd. I mean, he kind of reads like the [typical] nerdy sidekick, so I was like “Is he really good at Math?” ‘Cause Baze has the nickname because of his last name.
Right.
- I didn’t think it was like a name nickname, like Matt being short for Matthew. But apparently Liz Tigelaar, the executive producer who wrote the pilot and created the show, she worked on Brothers & Sisters and said in trying to think of unique names for characters, she had worked with Matthews Rhys on that show. People sometimes refer to him as Math instead of Matt, short for Matthew. So she said to me that was kind of the reasoning. And then she came up with a last name in like episode five or six. “Rogers” because I’m a teacher and kids make fun of me that I’m “Mr. Rogers.”
Teen Television interviews BRITT ROBERTSON
Jan 29th
TEEN TELEVISON: Interview with Britt Robertson [LUX]
Hey Britt, thanks for talking to us on your break. You are from a big family, seven kids, so is it kind of wish fulfillment to be in a TV show where you are an only child with a huge attic for a room?
Britt: Yeah, exactly! It definitely was different to play someone who comes from a small family when I come from this large family. I can relate a little bit because Lux kind of has this big ‘family’ background from being in group homes where you are constantly around kids.
There is this flashback episode where you get to see her childhood a little bit so there were moments where I could relate to my own big family. But some of (what Lux experiences) is like a fish out of water (to me).
Do you sometimes feel like your friends are your family, like Lux does?
Britt: Definitely. When I’m in Los Angeles, my family isn’t out there with me. They’re back in South Carolina so I have to establish my own family and living here (Vancouver) as well, our cast and our crew are our family and my friends back home are my family. I went back home this past weekend. I call them my ‘faux’ family. I lived with them for about a year, went home, slept on their couch and their beds. I love them so I could connect with Lux in that way. read much more
lifeUNEXPECTED theme song: Beautiful Tree
Jan 28th
Ah, finally a lifeUNEXPECTED theme song. I think the song is a PERFECT match for the series. Like “life”, Rain’s song, Beautiful Tree, is heartfelt, upbeat, and the lyrics are real and meaningful! I also really like her video’s earthy and carefree style. Get your copy of Cinderblock Bookshelves
- Rain Perry | The Official Site
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- Read more about Rain from her friends perspective.
- Get Rain’s song, “Wide Awake”. [free]
- Beautiful Tree on
