{"id":1168,"date":"2015-10-01T19:34:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T19:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/peanutsandpopcorn\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2015-10-01T19:34:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T19:34:04","slug":"stamos-shines-in-grandfathered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/peanutsandpopcorn\/2015\/10\/stamos-shines-in-grandfathered.html","title":{"rendered":"Stamos Shines in \u2018Grandfathered\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jimmy (John Stamos) and Edie (Layla \/ Emelia Golfieri) in the “Pilot” episode of Grandfathered (FOX)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And the award for \u201cmost surprising response to a new sitcom\u201d goes to the John Stamos comedy, Grandfathered<\/em>. The show has all the elements that I don\u2019t usually approve of but by the end of 30 minutes, its\u2019 charm won me over. Let me explain.<\/p>\n

Full House<\/em> star turned Oikos yogurt expert, John Stamos, plays a 50-year-old selfish and self-absorbed playboy bachelor, Jimmy Martino, owner of a highly successful and posh restaurant. He is unattached in every way and loves it. Then, life as he knows it changes in a matter of moments as they frequently do in sitcom pilots.<\/p>\n

Jimmy is visited at his restaurant by Gerald (Josh Peck), who tells Jimmy that he is the by-product of a one night stand and that Jimmy is his father. Oh, and he brought along someone else, Edie, a baby, who would be Jimmy\u2019s granddaughter. Obviously, this is a lot to take in. Jimmy rushes over to his former one-nighter and Gerald\u2019s mother, Sara (Paget Brewster), to chew her out for not telling him that he had a son. As to be expected, she gives some lame reason why this never happened.<\/p>\n

The rest of the episode is spent with Jimmy getting to know his new-found son and grandchild. He soon learns that Gerald is lot like his mother and father in that he slept with a girlfriend one night and too became a father \u201cjust like that.\u201d The mother of the baby, Vanessa, thinks that she and Gerald are buddies and sharing a baby isn\u2019t much different than sharing an entr\u00e9e at Olive Garden.<\/p>\n

Grandfathered pretty much sums up our current world that has shunned all forms of traditional relationships and marriage in favor or free sex, materialism and \u201cdoing what is right for me\u201d attitudes. Sooner or later, this living for yourself mentality will catch up with you. Despite their characters\u2019 outward appearances, all of them are like us \u2013 broken people. In the show\u2019s last few frames we get a hint that sitting in Jimmy\u2019s living room is the nucleus family that he didn\u2019t know that he wanted or needed and it put a lump in my throat.<\/p>\n

For years it seems that Stamos has struggled to find the right place where he fits in and that may be because of his association with his Full House<\/em> character. However, in recent years, he has learned the art of making fun of himself and he continues to do the same here. His character is concerned about getting grey hair or becoming too tan. Just like Fonzie had a hard time saying that he was \u201cwrong\u201d in Happy Days<\/em>, Stamos\u2019 character can\u2019t bring himself to say the word, \u201cGrandfather.\u201d Like it or not, we all get older.<\/p>\n

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(L-R) Sara (Paget Brewster), Gerald (Josh Peck) and Vanessa (Christina Milian) (FOX)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a press release from FOX, Grandfathered<\/em> is described as an \u201cunconventional, sophisticated comedy about coming of age \u2013 at any age\u201d and that is exactly what it is. The show has a lot of potential storylines about what it means to be committed in a relationship, how to get over past hurts, how to trust others, etc. Will the show make it? It\u2019s hard to say. The show was originally produced by ABC Studios, which would seem to suggest that ABC had intended for the show to land on their own network but passed it off to FOX.<\/p>\n

Without watching the show, some will think that it endorses this messed up family lifestyle as \u201cokay,\u201d but my sense is that it does exactly the opposite. If it continues to have its heart in the right place and not settle for typical sitcom silliness, Grandfathered just might have a shot of sticking around.<\/p>\n

No, it is not a traditional family sitcom that Christians can usually agree with, but then again, many of us Christians are living with a family situation that we can\u2019t agree with either. We\u2019re all human. We need community and we need a sense that something greater than ourselves is out there. This show addresses the former and just might explore that latter. You never know.<\/p>\n

Grandfathered<\/em> airs on Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m. on FOX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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