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Raising Hope - Season 1
Jimmy Chance, a 23-year-old man who skims pools for a living, has a chance romantic encounter with Lucy, a wanted felon. After one-night stand with Lucy who later ends up on death row, Jimmy becomes a single parent to an infant.
8 March 1961, San Francisco, California, USA
26 March 2005, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
2 September 1979, Skokie, Illinois, USA
30 June 1981, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
28 July 1975, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
September 21, 2010
Raising Hope certainly raises hope for the future of single-camera comedy.
September 21, 2010
You can probably tell this is not your average sitcom.
September 21, 2010
Within the toilet humor, there are moments of sensitivity that remind us that many times adversity can be one's saving grace.
October 11, 2013
Not an original concept by any means, but Raising Hope is surprisingly entertaining and full of at least a few laugh-out-loud moments.
September 21, 2010
You know what to expect from a show like Raising Hope: Lessons will be learned, diapers will be gross, the subject of breast-feeding will be milked for all its worth.
September 21, 2010
The comic ideas in Raising Hope, while white trash to the maximum, are pretty clever.
September 21, 2010
Fox's best comedies are always off-center. Raising Hope forgets to stay there.
September 21, 2010
There may be a smaller number of top-notch newbies this season, but Raising Hope, a celebration of parenthood and childhood, of small joys and big struggles, is certainly one of them.
September 21, 2010
What we have at present is a little too much bubblin' crude.
April 19, 2017
It's irreverent and funny.