CBS's single-camera comedy Life in Pieces, premiering Monday night, has three things going for it: a great cast, a unique format, and the fact that it's a single-camera comedy. Beyond that, the new series is hit-or-miss, but the pilot immediately hooks you with its deceptively simple tag line: "One big family. Four short stories. Every week."
Basically, Life in Pieces is like ABC's Modern Family, but without the intercutting. Over the course of the premiere, we meet each member of the Short family, which includes an eccentric patriarch (Marcus Welby, M.D.'s James Brolin), his devoted wife (Edward Scissorhands' Dianne Wiest) and their three adult children played by Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom), Colin Hanks (Orange County) and Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad).
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Basically, Life in Pieces is like ABC's Modern Family, but without the intercutting. Over the course of the premiere, we meet each member of the Short family, which includes an eccentric patriarch (Marcus Welby, M.D.'s James Brolin), his devoted wife (Edward Scissorhands' Dianne Wiest) and their three adult children played by Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom), Colin Hanks (Orange County) and Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad).
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