*New Show Alert* How to Live With Your Parents (for the rest of your life)

When you move in with your parents after your divorce, you tell yourself it's not forever. Polly is a single mom who's been divorced for almost a year. The transition wasn't easy for her, especially with the economy. So, like a lot of young people living in this new reality, she turned to her parents for a little help. Polly and her daughter Natalie have moved back home with her eccentric parents...

Above is just paraphrasing a really complicated storyline into a few sentences.  The idea of this show is that a divorcee takes her daughter and moves back in with her parents until she can get back on her feet.

Since this show is a classic set up for a lame sitcom I can see why it doesn't yet have the credit it deserves.  This show is really witty, entertaining and full of surprises.  It has all the classic elements of a primetime sitcom without the cheesy bits that make you cringe and change the channel.

I only heard about this show through hulu.com so I didn't know what to expect when I first watched it.  The main character is Polly, played by Sarah Chalke (who I recognized as Stella from How I Met Your Mother).  Her face was the reason I decided to give this show a chance.  Not that I liked Stella, but whenever I see a familiar face on a poster or tv commercial I have to spend at least a little time investigating and seeing what everyone's up to now that they're moved on from their last project.

Yep, I'm THAT lame...

But anyways that's how I find hidden gems like this show.  It's a carefree comedy with little substance, so if you're looking for hardcore drama you're not gonna find it here.  It's light-hearted and has (some) family values so it does pull the heart strings.

I think the best part about this show is that it's totally normal.  Polly works at a grocery store and tries to raise her daughter differently from the way she was raised.  Nobody agrees with their parents on everything so that's where the comedy kicks in, but there are so many aspects of this show that are relatable and accessible to a variety of viewers that I think it's only a matter of time before it either takes off or gets cancelled.

I call this the Firefly effect.

Firefly is a show I rated in an earlier post.  It was a tv show no one understood at the time of its release, but after it got cancelled gained a massive following...enough to make a movie about it.

So there's no beans about it...this show is destined for greatness.  Watch it before it becomes popular so you can say you liked it first!  (All episodes so far are available for free at hulu.com)

4 stars...and counting!