Tonight at 9p on NBC’s
Sean Saves the World Ellie (Samantha Isler) needs her first bra and Sean (
Sean Hayes) is not going to be the one who takes her to buy it. So he lets his BFF, Liz (Megan Hilty), take her and let us just say the bras she buys her are not something a 16 year old should be wearing and maybe not even someone twice her age. Since things didn’t go well the first go around, Sean lets his mother (Linda Lavin) take her and things go even worse. Let’s just say you will hear Lavin say a word you’d never thought you would hear Alice say. And you know what I liked it. So will poor Ellie ever get her bra? You will have to tune to see who actually buys her the most appropriate bra. It’s someone you’d never suspect. You also want to watch because it is a show full of laughs and tender moments and did I say laughs.
Sean Saves the World is NBC’s strongest comedies in years, so why not check it out and find yourself as addicted to it as I am.
A big reason I am addicted to it is because I love everything that Sean Hayes touches. On this show that he produces and stars in, he plays a single parent on the sitcom and that is something he can relate to. Recently at a press day for Sean Saves the World when I asked him if he thought he would be where he is now, 15 years ago when he started out on Will & Grace; he told us about being raised by just his mom. He said, “I live my life out of fear because I grew up in not the best conditions with a single mom raising 5 kids, who couldn’t be there to parent all of us.” Then the proud son added, “I got my drive and ambition from her. So if she can raise 5 kids by herself with barely anything, you can accomplish so much.” Look at what he is accomplished in just 15 years, he stood out on a well-liked ensemble series for many years, played two comedic legends in a biopic and a great re-imagination of another one, produces 5, yes five, shows that are currently on the air and now he stars in his own series. Not bad to do all of that in 15 years.
Now we know that he knows what it is like to be raised by a single parent, but he actually got to try out parenting and that also helped him to prepare for this role. He shared this tidbit with us, “I had the pleasure, and I use the term loosely, to parent my niece for about a year. I pull a lot from that. She’s was exactly Sammy’s (the age of the actress who plays his daughter) age when I did it. There are so many similarities, it’s scary. It is nice to have gone through that and now play this character.”
For someone who has never been a parent, he has a lot of experience with it. And it is that knowledge that shines through on this show. His relationship with his teenage daughter on it is so natural and that makes you want to tune in. That and because it is great family show that everyone can enjoy and relate to when they watch it. And don’t we need that on TV?
