Composer:
James S. LevineCast:
Justin Bartha, Andrew Rannells, Georgia King, Bebe Wood, NeNe Leakes, Jayson Blair, Ellen Barkin, John Stamos, Michael Hitchcock, Jackie Hoffman (more)Episodes(22)
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Pilot (E01)
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Sofa's Choice (E02)
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Baby Clothes (E03)
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Obama Mama (E04)
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Nanagasm (E05)
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Bryanzilla (E06)
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The Godparent Trap (E07)
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Unplugged (E08)
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Pardon Me (E09)
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The XY Factor (E10)
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Baby Proofing (E11)
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The Goldie Rush (E12)
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Stay-At-Home Dad (E13)
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Gaydar (E14)
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Dairy Queen (E15)
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Dog Children (E16)
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Rocky Bye Baby (E17)
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Para-New Normal Activity (E18)
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Blood, Sweat and Fears (E19)
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About a Boy Scout (E20)
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Finding Name-O (E21)
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The Big Day (E22)
Plots(1)
These days, families come in all forms - single dads, double moms, sperm donors, egg donors, one-night-stand donors... It's 2012 and anything goes. Bryan (Andrew Rannells, "Girls," "The Book of Mormon") and David (Justin Bartha, "The Hangover") are a Los Angeles couple, and they have it all. Well, almost. With successful careers and a committed, loving partnership, there is one thing that this couple is missing: a baby. And just when they think the stars will never align, enter Goldie (Georgia King, "One Day"), an extraordinary young woman with a checkered past. A Midwestern waitress and single mother looking to escape her dead-end life and small-minded grandmother (Emmy and Tony Award-winner Ellen Barkin), Goldie decides to change everything and move to L.A. with her precocious eight-year-old daughter. Desperate and broke - but also fertile - Goldie quickly becomes the guys' surrogate and quite possibly the girl of their dreams. Surrogate mother, surrogate family. (official distributor synopsis)
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Reviews (3)
Another original delight from Ryan Murphy’s collection of series. The main theme is surrogacy and love, of course. A perfect cadence of situations and dialogues depicting the world as it is. That is indeed valuable. Acting-wise, you'll be delighted with the small parts performed by Gwyneth Paltrow, Shannen Doherty, or Leisha Hailey.
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No entry this time to anyone ignorant of Ryan Murphy's work or people. The Midas of TV series targets its own ranks and instead of a carefully crafted multi-genre addition like American Horror Story or a collection of life truths (Nip/Tuck), it is written out of his family life through Bryan. And it is precisely because of this fact that I cannot help but shake my head and suppress laughter while reading the other reviews. Of course there's no accounting for taste, but criticizing the main creator for making the central character a disgrace to the gay community is short-sighted in this case. The perfectly flawless Andrew Rannells takes that self-parody (producer, singing teenage drama, 101 pop culture reference) to the very edge of perfection and makes the pleasantly "good" series into something more. The rest, by Ryan's standards, is surprisingly moderate play on certainty from a world where every empathic person deserves their moment of happiness. After some typical Murphy archetypes (a devilish aging blonde with the potential for occasionally relenting is an infallible trademark), the first season concludes, which – is truly the conclusion. I've never been satisfied with a good series being canceled right after the first season. These positive feelings wouldn't deserve to be diluted by further seasons, to the point where those twenty-two episodes really seem to function as a closed private photo album.
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I was very interested in The New Normal as a series after the first couple of episodes, but it lost its breath at times during the first season, with overly blatantly educational and sentimental (in a bad way) scenes coming to the surface, but the the season finale was good, so I'm looking forward to the next one. The most distinctive and actually the funniest characters are Jane and Rocky Rhoades. Ellen Barkin won me over a lot with her acting and I'm used to NeNe Leakes from Glee, where I also enjoyed her a lot. A lot of the jokes do come to naught due to a different culture, but I still duly enjoyed the many heated discussions and verbal shootouts. Probably the least likable character for me is Clay, who talks even worse than a small child, and besides that sometimes Shania, who at times could use a little grounding. Otherwise, as for the central couple and their surrogate mother, it can be said that they don't offend, but they're not particularly distinctive. A pleasant diversion with a likeable running time, it's got its issues, but still entertains a lot.
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