How did a family-centered drama series as uniquely unassuming and gently appealing as The CW's Life Unexpected even make it to broadcast television? Considering the state of the medium, the arrival this season of an entertaining hour drama that does not revolve around doctors, lawyers, detectives, government agents, supernatural beings or sex-crazed teenagers is a miraculous circumstance all its own.
Life tells the story of Lux, a sixteen-year-old girl whose determined effort to emancipate herself from the foster-care system in which she had been raised largely backfires, landing her in the custody of her biological mother, Cate Cassidy, who gave her up for adoption after giving birth to her when she herself was only sixteen, and her biological father, Nate "Baze" Bazile, who didn't know Lux existed until the kid entered his life from out of nowhere. This turn of events isn't easy on Lux, but several episodes into this series' freshman season it has proven even more tumultuous for Cate, a morning radio personality happily engaged to her co-star, and Baze, a directionless, laid-back bar owner with two beer-loving roommates.
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