EPISODE
The New Normal - Season 1
Bryan and David are a Beverly Hills gay couple striving for a baby. Meanwhile, Goldie is a single mother who agrees to become their surrogate, assisting the two happily married gay man to start a new family.
8 August 1977, Rocky River, Ohio, USA
4 February 2003, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
14 December 1959, San Jose, California, USA
13 August 1983, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
18 October 1991, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
11 October 1977, Webster Groves, Missouri, USA
8 May 1966, Lubbock, Texas, USA
26 July 1986, Contra Costa County, California, USA
September 10, 2012
Move past them into the pilot and the problems begin.
September 10, 2012
The New Normal is cheap and hectoring, to the point where random dwarves, deaf people and politically correct totems turn to the camera to lecture the viewers that "abnormal is the new normal."
September 10, 2012
Watching a cutesy Disney Princess in the middle of these one-note characters isn't going to keep our attention for very long.
September 10, 2012
For a show that's about how differences can ultimately unite us, everyone fits a little too neatly into precontrived packages.
September 10, 2012
It's also fast and funny. As long as Ryan continues to mix humor from the cute and the curdled sides of the aisle, this show will entertain.
September 10, 2012
The New Normal needs to get its tone down and level out its ideas, instead of constantly contradicting them, because as of right now, it plays more biased towards different people than for them.
September 10, 2012
The New Normal wants what Modern Family is having. But if we're going to catapult from South Park to a Hallmark movie, we need a smoother ride.
September 10, 2012
Barkin makes nastiness a lot of fun.
September 10, 2012
There's enough good in the first episode to make me hope the show can grow into a comedy half as strong as the show that clearly inspired it, "Modern Family."
October 11, 2013
Trust us, The New Normal will be your must-watch family show of the week, and the fact that it's technically about a "nontraditional" family is what makes it perfect.