Grandfathered
2015
Original language: English
- comedy
The story
Successful restaurateur and man-about-town Jimmy Martino is used to being the most suave, most handsome and most single person in the room. All that changes with the surprise appearance of Jimmy’s adult son, Gerald, and his baby daughter, Edie. Now Jimmy has to unlearn a lifetime of blissful selfishness and grapple with the fact that he went straight from single to grandfather in six seconds flat.
What it’s like
Bright, evenly lit multi-camera sitcom staging: warm amber restaurant interiors, glossy Los Angeles apartments, and a steady rhythm of two-shots and reaction close-ups, with a studio audience's laughter underlining each beat. The palette runs on wine reds, cream and polished wood, and the sound is a light, bouncy theme over cheerful dialogue and clattering kitchen noise. It feels like easy weeknight TV, comfortable and familiar, with quick cuts between jokes and a gentle sense of ease. The tone is breezy and affectionate, with the comedy resting on a self-absorbed bachelor slowly and clumsily adjusting to fatherhood and grandfatherhood, and the arcs turn on the awkward warmth between generations. Intensity is very low: no violence, gore or dread, only mild innuendo and light romantic banter. It suits a relaxed evening, a background watch while cooking, or a comfort rewatch, and it is for people who want undemanding, good-humoured family comedy with a little heart.
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