She does talk about Carrie and it is clear she loved her sister very much. Not what I thought it would be but I loved it.Ĭall me shallow but I thought this would be more about Carrie and their relationship as half sisters but it really is, and rightfully so, about Joely and her mom Connie Stevens. She speaks frankly about how the loss of her sister, Carrie Fisher, became a source of artistic inspiration.įisher's memoir will both break and warm your heart. Throughout, she celebrates the anomaly of a two-decade marriage in the entertainment industry and the joys and challenges of parenting five children, while dishing on what it takes to survive and thrive in the unrelenting glow of celebrity. She speaks frankly about the realities of Hollywood - the fame and fortune, the constant scrutiny. In Growing Up Fisher, she recalls the beautifully bizarre twist of fate by which she spent a good part of her childhood next door to Debbie Reynolds. Now, Joely shares her unconventional coming of age and stories of the family members and costars dearest to her heart while stripping bare her own misadventures. The product of world-famous crooner Eddie Fisher and '60s sex kitten Connie Stevens, she struggled with her own identity and place in the world on the way to a decades-long career as an acclaimed actress, singer, and director. Growing up in an iconic Hollywood Dynasty, Joely Fisher knew a show business career was her destiny. No doubt they will hug you back, earnestly.Actress, director, entertainer Joely Fisher invites listeners backstage into the intimate world of her career and family with this hilarious, irreverent, down-to-earth memoir filled with incredible, candid stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her unlikely hero, sister Carrie Fisher, ignited the writer in her. If you like very obvious, very simple lessons in your family comedies, then by all means embrace Growing Up Fisher and its BFF, About a Boy. Together, they’re just undermined by, well, syrup. Elfman makes another solid statement that she should be in something much better (this coming off her fine work in 1600 Penn she hasn’t lost any of her comedy chops). Simmons does his usual solid work in this role, and he’s got all the physical comedy in the playing blind (and faking sight) bits. If that tendency is increased, you’ve definitely got a huggy pair of sitcoms on your hands. But I’m also very wary of About a Boy, given that the second episode is from the same Fisher DNA. And, to its credit, there are funny jokes in the three episodes I watched (whereas I didn’t laugh once in two episodes of Growing Up Fisher). It’s like a candy-gram bit of counterprogramming.Īctually, that can’t be completely true because About a Boy, when it’s good - meaning when it’s not trying to be super fuzzy sweater - has its caustic elements. Compared with what Fox and ABC are offering, maybe the thinking is that people need less sarcasm and negativity in their lives. Both About a Boy and Growing Up Fisher are feel-good comedies. I mean, these kinds of soft, sentimental comedies with little learning lessons are all the rage (well, sure, they used to be … now, like The Goldbergs, they come with more palatable doses of snark to leaven the sweetness and provide a whole lot more laughs).īut as a strategy, I get what NBC is trying to do. And what I took from that was that I’d never watch the third one. I’m not sure that’s what I took from it, but I did watch the second episode as well. This allows for 22 minutes of story about how Henry really isn’t useless, but Elvis will help his dad through this new phase and everybody will be happy. Once the separation/divorce news hits, Dad has to get a dog named Elvis and Henry feels useless. When we meet Henry, he’s like a “wingman” to his dad. Although she kind of wants to be best friends with her daughter, Katie ( Ava Deluca-Verley). Simmons, The Closer), who’s an attorney and Joyce ( Jenna Elfman, 1600 Penn, Dharma & Greg), who is something I can’t recall because I was flossing so I wouldn’t get a cavity. The series is narrated by Jason Bateman ( Arrested Development), who provides the grown-up voice of Henry (he’s also executive producer).Ĭreated by DJ Nash ( Up All Night, Bent) and inspired by his own life story, Growing Up Fisher is about 12-year-old Henry ( Eli Baker) and his two parents: blind father Mel ( J.K. And the soft goo of life lessons (really obvious ones) encasing you like a caramel hug. In any case, that’s not entirely important or all that the show is about. Well, the father has always been blind - he’s just hiding it from the rest of the world until he and his wife separate. Growing Up Fisher is about Henry, a boy coming of age with a blind father.
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