How To Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life), or HTLWYP (FTROYL), is another new comedy on ABC. The show is just another comedy based on single motherhood and the financial restraints in the current society. The show has a pretty basic story line.
After a divorce, the main character Polly (Sarah Chalke) is a single mom that moves back in with her parents, bringing her daughter Natalie (Rachel Eggleston) along with her.
The show starts out with Polly moving into her parents’ place and then jumps six months ahead. This jump threw me off because I think character development was crucial within that time. I feel like I would have connected to the characters more if I could have seen what happened during that time period.
I believe the characters of Polly’s parents, Elaine (Elizabeth Perkins) and Max (Brad Garrett) are more developed than Polly’s character. The scenes are funny, but I couldn’t figure out the point of this show yet. New episodes of HTLWYP (FTROYL) are on ABC every Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. So far, I will stay tuned in to see if the story plot gains any more depth.