Life in Pieces

TV Series
2015–2019
TV-14
22m

IMDb RATING

8.0/10

18K

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A family comedy told through the separate stories of different family members.A family comedy told through the separate stories of different family members.A family comedy told through the separate stories of different family members.

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IMDb RATING

8.0/10

18K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

1,122

186

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 nominations

Episodes79

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Trivia
On May 10, 2019, after only five episodes into season four, it was announced that the show would not have a season five. CBS canceled it but would run the final nine episodes. The series was highly rated in its second season, right behind The Big Bang Theory (2007), but ratings dropped in season three and didn't recover in early season four. Many felt it was because of the way CBS scheduled it. The show first aired in September it's first season and then kept getting pushed back later in the year the following seasons. It didn't premier until April, almost a year after season three ended, in season four.

Goofs
Tim is seen with hair in both of the flashbacks. However it is a running joke that he went bald in at least high school.

Crazy credits
The show opens with the printed tag line, "One Big Family. Four Short Stories.". This is a pun. Each episode consists of four complete stories, presented one at a time. But also, the name of the family is "Short". So the four segments that make up each episode aren't just short stories. They're Short stories.

Connections
Featured in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Carol Burnett/Colin Hanks/Baio/Abe Laboriel Jr. (2015)

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10/10

Gets better every week

I really enjoyed the pilot but am enjoying this show even more as it progresses. I haven't watched a "laugh-out-loud" sitcom for awhile until this show - last week I almost doubled over during some of the segments. The entire cast is brilliant and pulls it off every week. I never knew Colin Hanks could be that funny! And I'm so happy to see Zoe Lister-Jones (who I loved in Whitney) and Thomas Sadosky (wonderful in Newsroom). Dan Bakkedahl is absolutely brilliant as are Dianne Weist and James Brolin. Even the kids are good, and I'm usually not enamored of child actors.

I look forward to each new episode, and really hope that it picks up an audience that will stick with it.