After the love of your life dies, finding love again is no easy task. Finally, ready to meet someone and boom the rust factor kicks in because a date has not been present in a number of years. Even though happiness is present with a great support system, the end goal is to fill that gaping hole of lonesome that only a romantic partner can fix. Does this show inspire people to rekindle and find love? Let us find out.
Wade (Walton Goggins) is a single father who has not stopped mourning his wife who had died due to illness. Without a strong mother figure, the house becomes a mess. Wade is a very lax parent who is struggling to raise two daughters. Feeding them the sympathy frozen food that his friends gave him during his wife’s funeral. After Wade gets to the last frozen food, he realizes that he cannot do this alone and he has to move on. Wade’s friends help him make the perfect profile on dating websites, which makes him extremely popular with the nearby single ladies.
Wade just wants to be happy with his kids, but he needs a wife to fill the void that is eating him up inside. Natalie (Makenzie Moss) and Grace (Ruby Jay) love their father deeply and want him to be happy. They are a bit reluctant at first on the idea of having someone replacing their mother, but they genuinely care for their fathers’ happiness. So, they are fully into the idea of their father dating again and will even help him on picking someone that Wade can be with. All of his friends support the idea of Wade going back out into the world and dating again. His friends Forrest (Rob Corddry), Delia (Michaela Watkins), Ben (Omar Miller), and Michelle (Maya Lynne Robinson) all do what they can to get him to land a date. From dating advice to editing his dating profile to make him more desirable, even though most of his bio is a lie.
This show has a certain charm that just makes you want to love all of these characters. The story is simple with the entire premise of the show is to find Wade a lady, who can complete him. It is nice to see a single father who is actively dating and is not striking out with every woman he meets because he hasn’t dated in a while. The love that this father has for his kids is something that every parent should take note of. This heartwarming comedy truly shines with the relationship that Wade has with Grace and Natalie. This certainly has How I Met Your Mother vibes except that Wade is more put together than Ted would ever be.
The show is well on its way to being the best sitcom of the season with one of the best pilots out of all the sitcoms for this fall. It is a simple show that the entire family can enjoy, especially the single fathers out there. This show has a high promise to be aired for a long time, it airs every Thursday at 8:30 p.m on CBS.
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