Score: 8 out of 10 The Audio Grounded For Life: Season 1 offers a Dolby digital 2.0 track, which captures the series' aural demands in fine fashion. Also, the pre-filmed, single camera bits help give the series the sense of elevated production values, both because of more realistic outdoor settings and the ability to shoot 360 degrees. In fact, the show is lit quite brightly and populated with lots of primary colors, which make for a palatable visual palette. There is no discernible grain or discoloration. Score: 6 out of 10 The Video Presented in 1.33:1 full screen enhanced for 16x9 televisions, Grounded For Life's transfer is a solid duplication of its small screen experience. While a definite nod to show's Fox base camp, plotlines like these handicap the show somewhat as a "tweener," making it a bit too out-there for family viewing. Finnerty, You Have a Lovely Daughter," which drag sex into the proceedings, and "Jimmy Was Kung Fu Fighting," in which Lily gets her tongue pierced. ![]() This is most uncomfortably evident in episodes like "Rubber Sold" and "Mrs. On the downside, Corrigan over-dials the eccentricity as Eddie, and, more unnervingly, Lily is a thinly veiled iteration of Kelly Bundy from Married… With Children - the teen daughter sexpot-in-waiting, albeit more persistently petulant than airheaded. The energy of the cast is what most helps sell Grounded For Life, along with its fresh parallel construction. Things end up in the emergency room, with Walt shot in the rump. Other episodic highlights include "You Can't Always Get What You Want," in which Sean and Claudia tell Lily they can't afford to send her on a class ski trip, but she finds out her dad spent money on a guitar and "Jimmy's Got a Gun," in which Walt, against Sean's instruction, gives his grandson a BB gun for Christmas. Goode," finds Sean catching Lily making out with the nerdy next-door neighbor, and responding in a very unorthodox way - by lobbing fried chicken at the car in which they're sitting. The general conceit is that there's some argument, mishap or misadventure, and this in turn spins back into different memories of the past that inform or relate to the situation, with these being the pre-taped bits. The series' novelty is in the fashion that it blends traditional, studio-taped segments with single-camera bits. The meddling of Sean's judgmental, arch-conservative father Walt ( Office Space's Richard Riehle, in a role originally written for Office Space's Stephen Root), and the presence of his kooky, loafer brother Eddie (Kevin Corrigan) - embodying all of Sean's daydreams of unfettered independence - ensure plenty of contrasting dispositions and opinions on everything from Lily's nascent dating practices to familial shopping trips and birthday gift compromises. Ergo, they bicker and flail as they cope with parental responsibilities, each feeling their way through the dark, so to speak. The rub, of course, and the source of the title, is that in becoming parents so young, Sean and Claudia - despite their love for and unyielding commitment to one another - aren't really fully settled adults themselves. Now in their early 30s, the excitable couple have three kids - headstrong teen daughter Lily (Lynsey Bartilson) and two younger boys, Jimmy (Griffin Frazen) and Henry (Jake Burbage). The story centers around both Donal Logue and Megyn Price, who star as Sean and Claudia Finnerty, a fun-loving Staten Island couple who met in high school and got married when a teenage pregnancy forced their hand.
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