Life Unexpected

Liz Parker! You're back!

My sister recommended the new CW show Life Unexpected. There were a couple of episodes recorded on the DVR and I took advantage one day and watched them back to back.

The show already has one major plus, it takes place in Portland. It's fun to see city shots incorporated in the show. Even though they film the show in Canada they do a good job making it look like Portland.

The show is about a young 15 year old girl who has been in foster care her whole life and when she decides to take control and become emancipated she needs the signature of her birth parents. Her birth mom (Shiri Appleby...forever Liz Parker) gave her up for adoption when she was a baby (she never was adopted because of health issues), and her birth father was just a guy her mom was with for only a time in high school. In the first episode they reconnect and lives change.
The show is entertaining and isn't super cheesy like a 7th Heaven. I approve, I think it's sweet. Yes, I said sweet.

Distraction of the show? The the girl who plays Lux (the girl in foster care) reminds me so much of Rita from Dexter (or if you're a Roswell nerd like me: Ms. Topolsky).