Life Unexpected Breathes New Life into The CW Line-up
The CW’s Life Unexpected makes its mid-season debut on Monday, January 18 amid much warm hype for a show that’s equally fascinating as it is entertaining, as young actress Brittany Robertson steps into the weighty dramatic role of Lux, a 15 year old in Portland, Oregon attempting to legally cut ties with her parents. Created by teen drama author and television writer Liz Tigelaar, whose credits include Dawson’s Creek, American Dreams, What About Brian and Brothers & Sisters, Life Unexpected fires on the all-important literary standard of “write what you know”. For Liz Tigelaar, Life Unexpected is a project close to the heart since Tigelaar herself was adopted and dreamed that her birth parents had cool careers. After climbing the TV ranks from the ground up from assistant to writer to now series executive producer and creator, Life Unexpected marks the show that Liz Tigelaar is at the helm of as series head.
As the Life Unexpected story unfolds, we soon learn Lux has been raised in the foster care system and just days shy of her 16 birthday, she’s on the hunt for her birth parents in order to become an emancipated minor and free of the system that forced the young girl into seven different homes. With no expectations, Lux is surprised to discover that her birth mother, Cate Cassidy (Shiri Appleby), is the morning radio jockey that she listens to everyday who had a one-night stand with her biological father, bar owner Nathaniel “Baze” Bazile (Kristoffer Polaha), in high school. After the judge refuses to grant Lux emancipation (thanks in large part to both her parents unexpectedly showing up to court during Lux’s hearing) the frustrated Lux is put back into the joint custody of her parents. Read More
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