Next Monday The CW will premiere the most talked about new show of the mid-season
. The show was created by first time show runner, but a veteran of many great shows Liz Tigelaar. Liz is bundle of joy who deserves all the success for her upcoming show and with a resume that includes shows Dawson’s Creek, American Dreams and Brothers & Sisters to name a few you know she knows how to write a show with a heart. And the basis of Life UneXpected is close to her heart. Something she told us at The CW Winter Press Tour Day for The Critics Association.
Liz Tigelaar, the creator of the show, is adopted and since she was born in DC she thought her mom was Nancy Reagen. She says when she was a kid because she was adopted, she fantasized what she thought her family would be. On the show Lux finds out her mom is her fantasy mom and on the show she will have to deal with the fantasy of having her mom be this cool DJ, and the real woman behind it.
Liz says all of these characters are flawed. They are real. They do the right things for the wrong reason and wrong things for the right.
Liz says they are not trying to make foster care look bad, just Lux had a bad experience. We will see Lux’s BFF Tasha go in to a new foster care home. We also see the girls meet when they were 7.
Liz does not want the show to come off as fake. (Side note, it doesn’t in the first three episodes that I have seen.)
Due to the show Liz said she found both of her birth parents and she just met her mom. Her mom told her she is not a radio DJ.
It was important for Liz that Lux was in foster care. Liz said being adopted made her feel special and wanted and she didn’t want Lux to have that.
Shiri Appleby says that for her character, Lux (her daughter) is the stability that she needed. Shiri says she hasn’t lived in the same city for more than 5 months since she was in HS and this show giving her stability.
Kristoffer Polaha says the actors have input. Liz’s enthusiasm helps with the creativity of the show.
We will also get to see Kate and Nate’s family and we will see why they turned out the way they do.
Some of this porbably doesn’t make sense to you yet, but once you see the pilot recheck this post and you will understand it more. Life UneXpected is a feel good show that makes you want to watch every week because it is so real and because the writing is so fresh and the acting feels so natural. So make sure to watch it next Monday at 8p!!!
