![]() Simmons, a “Wonder Years”-like narration by Jason Bateman - but once again the “man ‘n’ boy learn life lessons together” is dropped on the viewer’s head like an Acme anvil. Nash (“Up All Night,” “Guys With Kids”) has shamelessly stacked the deck - a blind dad played by J.K. “Growing Up Fisher,” which debuts Sunday before moving to Tuesdays, is a similar muddle of perfectly good parts. Katims has promised that, this being San Francisco, some of the characters from “Parenthood” may wander by, but what “About a Boy” really needs is Tami Taylor from “Friday Night Lights” to talk some sense into everyone and then sit them down for a dinner in which no one treats seitan like it is something previously unheard of. Will acts selfish, Fiona - also made to seem somehow “weird” because she doesn’t approve of Will running into the street in his underpants to remind his “date” that she owes him an orgasm - calls him on it, and then Marcus shows him the importance of putting others first. Once there, Will can then palm him off as the kid he doesn’t have.īefore realizing, of course, that Marcus has feelings too, and life is more than just doing precisely what you want every minute of the day.Īnd that is how each of the first three episodes unfurls. PHOTOS: Behind the scenes of movies and TVīut Marcus needs to be perceived as weird because he needs to be bullied and he needs to be bullied so he has a reason to run into Will’s house one day. Marcus is presented as a classic weird kid, despite the fact that the hallmarks of this weirdness - colorful sweaters, veganism, adult syntax - are pretty standard among kids on TV these days. Meet Will Freeman (David Walton), a guy so mid-life selfish that he calls his friend’s baby “it.” He also lies about having not just a kid, but one who survived cancer, in order to sleep with the comely single mom he has pounced on in the street.Īs luck would have it, wacky Fiona (Minnie Driver) and her son, Marcus (Benjamin Stockham), have moved next door That Very Day. That would be amazing.This “About a Boy” is as subtle as a chain saw. And I'd have to get those pictures taken mid-air where your face is all distorted. I know I could probably go in LA, but I feel like it's one of those things that has to be right place, right time - I'd want to wait for some beautiful scenery, and the right people. It just sounds like something that pretty much changes your life when you do it. Or Gwyneth Paltrow - her body is ridiculous, even after two kids! If I could steal any celeb's body, it would be.I think Cameron Diaz. I actually got to work in France for a bit in fashion before I got into acting. My father is from France, and I lived over there in the summer time with cousins when I was a teenager. Or I'll go to the movies Sunday, when it's kind of quiet and no one is there, and do a double-feature. I live right by there and it's just incredible - it makes Sunday awesome. Probably going on a hike in Runyon Canyon with my boyfriend.
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