Review of Life Unexpected

I'd say that Life Unexpected was a 6 but I have to give it a point for a good basis to the story. Unfortunately the writers fumbled the story repeatedly and had a child who was passed through the foster system, winding up with her real parents turn out to be more mature than the parents and really not messed up from the system at all. The up side is the show is entertaining in its stories, the down side is they have good stories written in left and write yet blow the writing and execution of the story repeatedly. Still leaves the show entertaining for 25 episodes, but no question why it was canned after 2 seasons. The miracle of having a foster child who is trying to get herself emancipated get in touch with her biological parents to sign some papers to allow it because when given up for adoption she never wound up being adopted is a heart warming basis for a show. Kid tossed around by system without notifying the biological parents it was even happening is a stretch, but a good starting point. The problem is the parents are still emotionally where they were in high school when the child, LEX, was conceived.

So the show continually fumbles the ball in telling the story of how the parents go to any lengths to incorporate their daughter back in their life but in the process botch every attempt by acting like teenagers in their 30's. It leaves the daughter coming off as the one causing the parents to mature but in a painfully clumsy fashion. That would actually be good for the first half of season 1 if they corrected it, but it is a problem that plagues the show for the duration and the anchor that drags it down. Still entertaining to a degree for 26 episodes, but the writers blew this as it should have written itself.