We were watching a lil preseason football (Chargers/Falcons) on CBS, and an ad comes up for their new fall comedy, Accidentally on Purpose. From their website, the premise is this:
ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE is a comedy starring Golden Globe Award winner Jenna Elfman as Billie, a single woman who finds herself "accidentally" pregnant after a one-night stand with a much younger guy, and decides to keep the baby. and the guy. A newspaper film critic, Billie is barely surviving a humiliating breakup with her charming boss, James (Grant Show), who's still trying to resume their relationship. Suddenly expecting a child with her "boy toy," Zack (Jon Foster), Billie and Zack make an arrangement: to live together platonically. Billie's party girl best friend Olivia (Ashley Jensen), and Abby (Lennon Parham), her conventional, younger married sister, eagerly look forward to the new addition and offer their own brands of advice and encouragement. But when Zack and his freeloading friends, including Davis (Nicolas Wright), start to turn her place into a frat house, Billie isn't sure if she's living with a boyfriend, a roommate, or if she just has another child to raise.
The kicker? That she's 37 and happens to get knocked up. Now, I know I've got age on my side, but still - I can imagine this is harder for others who have age working against them.
I proceeded to stuff 3 asparagus spears into my mouth at once and chew angrily, sadly. Ari placed a reassuring hand on my leg - he knew it hit me hard, out of the blue.
A nibbly dinner is kind of like our version of poor man's tapas -an assortment of cheeses, cornichons, sausage/meat, salad. Tonight we had fresh tomato and asparagus salad with balsamic, asagio fresco and st. albray cheeses, cornichons, and choriso. All fresh, all delish.
As I'm writing this, we're flipping the channels and stopped on NBC to watch a lil Law & Order SVU... and it's the pregnancy pact episode. Olivia was lecturing some knocked up teen. The lil spitfire gets up in the detective's face and is like "What's your deal? Wait too long? Older women are so jealous of me. Tick tock, tick tock!"
C'mon TV, really? I so rarely watch you lately, and this is what you throw at me?
(And of course, now I'm caught up in the episode, so I'm going to watch the rest of it now.)
