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I enjoyed all the actors of this show however those key 8 are all really what made the show tick for me at it's highest level of comedy & drama combined. Those 8 actors are the heart of the show & the others though would be welcome to be seen are not essential to the show. The cast who must return are Zoe Lister-Jones, Colin Hanks, Holly Barrett, Betsy Brandt, Giselle Eisenberg, Dan Bakkedahl & as much as they wish both the truly brilliant Dianne Wiest & James Brolin. Life in Pieces is a great show so let the writers re-energise & make some more awesome scripts & then please re-launch this show in a year or two with as many of the main cast as you can. If the writers need a break that is fine as we don't want bad writing but this show was strong from start to finish ( such a shame Modern Family ended so badly ).

And you have some serious trust to rebuild here.Fantastic & clever innovative comedy show that was enjoyable to watch. It’s a big world, and some father somewhere has possibly said to his son “Your sister tells me you’re a virgin,” or some precocious little girl, informed of the nonexistence of Santa Claus, has told her parents, “Up is down and down is up for me right now, I need some time alone.

At the same time, there is something airless and artificial about the pilot. It’s solidly constructed and gives each actor a modicum of delightful moments - Wiest most of all. Three out of four have to do with sex in part, or with sexual parts the fourth is about the fleetingness and preciousness of life - a point Brolin’s character, who has thrown himself a funeral for his 70th birthday, makes explicitly, for those who didn’t notice on their own.

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Web series have shown us that you do not need long to tell a comical story, and Adler sets up his episodes-within-the-episode with efficiency, with just enough business between premise and punchline to suggest the bigger world that contains them.

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The roster is impressive: James Brolin, Dianne Wiest, Betsy Brandt, Dan Bakkedahl, Colin Hanks, Thomas Sadoski, Angelique Cabral, Zoe Lister-Jones - it might just as easily be the cast of the next Untitled Woody Allen Project. It’s set just around the point where a more whimsical “Parenthood” would meet a less caustic “Modern Family,” and focuses on three siblings, their parents, and their children.

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Every week.”) In one sense this just untangles the strands that make up most every TV show, presenting the A and B and other plot lines discretely instead of cutting between them: “Story One: First Date,” “Story Two: The Delivery,” and so on. Single-camera comedy like this, which has only the laughs you supply, looks sophisticated and serious in a way that “The Big Bang Theory” never could.Īs if to underscore this visual higher tone, the series, created by “Better Off Ted” vet Justin Adler, has been conceived as a weekly collection of short stories about an extended family. “Life in Pieces,” which premieres Monday on CBS, represents a change in direction for a network long dedicated to “filmed before a live audience” multi-camera comedy - from “I Love Lucy” to “The Dick Van Dyke show” to “All in the Family” to “Mike and Molly,” it’s been their thing.