![]() That friend, the fourth member of the group, was Jon (Ron Livingston, Loudermilk), a Harvard-educated hardball real estate magnate, and the best individual buddy of each of the others. Rome (Romany Malco, Weeds) is a frustrated filmmaker who's been exiled into advertising and was about to swallow a massive overdose of pills when he got the word of his friend's suicide. Gary (James Roday, Psych), the group comedian until he came down with breast cancer, is recovering his sense of humor now that he's in remission and is free to join mostly-female support groups, the members of which he boinks like a bunny. There are lawyers.) There they learned they were all Boston Bruins fans, and when they finally got out of the elevator, the first thing they did-after peeing the show isn't titled The Big Prostate-was to buy season tickets together.Įddie (David Giuntoli, Grimm) is a lazy freelance guitar teacher who lives off the earnings of his corporate attorney wife (Grace Park, of the recent version of Hawaii Five-0), which is unfortunate because he's planning to divorce her to be with his mistress. ![]() (Hey, something had to be different than The Big Chill. ![]() The friends at the core of the show met not in college or even high school, but while stuck in an elevator. And, as in The Big Chill, they're all nearing the cusp of middle age, at the moment when they're starting to realize that life isn't going to work out exactly-or maybe remotely-like they planned. Like the characters in The Big Chill, the friends in A Million Little Things, have come together because of an unexpected and seemingly inexplicable suicide. No doubt the success of This Is Us (average weekly viewers: 17.4 million) encouraged ABC to take a shot on form of programming long considered moribund by the network suits.īut for a clue to the real origins of A Million Little Things, listen to ABC's advertising pitch about a group of friends jolted by tragedy: "They discover that friends may be the one thing to save them from themselves." If that sounds a bit like "In a cold world, you need your friends to keep you warm," the advertising catchphrase for the 1983 movie The Big Chill, you're onto the real inspiration of A Million Little Things. Wednesday, September 26, 10 p.m.Įverybody's comparing ABC's new melodrama A Million Little Things to its fellow feel-good-now-feel-bad soap This Is Us. 'A Million Little Things,' ABCĪ Million Little Things. ![]()
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