And then, in the last segment, Joan ( Dianne Wiest) and John ( James Brolin) bring their whole family (everybody we’ve met previously) together for purposes of thematic exposition and little else. Greg ( Colin Hanks) and Jen ( Zoe Lister-Jones) have a newborn, and they’re shocked to discover that having a baby does a number on a woman’s body. Heather ( Betsy Brandt) and Tim ( Dan Bakkedahl) are taking their eldest son to visit colleges as their two daughters also have important milestones, causing the parents to feel their age. Our stories/characters conveniently all find themselves at different points in their lives and relationships: Matt ( Thomas Sadoski) and Colleen ( Angelique Cabral) are newly dating, but their domestic circumstances make intimacy awkward. So it’s every sitcom ever, but edited in a way which, for the purposes of the pilot, doesn’t add up to much. Rather than having A, B, C and D stories that interact throughout the episode, Life in Pieces presumably will have those stories as their own separate segments, with the concluding segment perhaps tying everything together - or perhaps not. The gimmick is in the second sentence: the four short stories. Every week.” And if that sounds like pretty much every family sitcom ever to air, you have a sense of the announced potential that isn’t fulfilled here.
The opening tag for Life in Pieces goes: “One big family. Robertson, Chief Hurst in the 'Police Academy' Films, Dies at 89
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