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Of course, reality soon sets in. Cooper Barrett, played by blue- but not yet in a position to settle down. As
There are loans to repay and the eyed Brit Jack Cutmore-Scott Cooper says in the pilot: “No one has ever
economy stinks and no one’s hiring (“Kingsman: The Secret Service,” bothered to properly prepare anyone for
and what the heck job does an Arts 2014), he’s graduating college, this next decade of your life ... until now.”
degree get you anyway? You’re moving into a new apartment The premise of the show is that, through
flat broke, you still can’t with his friends and his own mistakes, embarrassments and
cook and not once, in the getting ready for life dubious exploits, Cooper serves as a guide
countless hours you as a learned adult. for his fellow 20-something Americans
spent in classrooms and As the series pro who struggle to navigate life and love dur
lecture halls, did anyone gresses, however, it ing this transitory phase of life.
teach you how to pro becomes clear that “Your 20s feel like one decade-long prac
duce a well-crafted re he’s still got an aw tical joke that everyone over the age of 30
sumé. True adulthood, ful lot to learn. is playing on you,” said Cutmore-Scott in
as it turns out, is still a The show is a a promo. “Cooper is essentially your lens
long way off. frank and funny of ‘don’t do what I did’ — all the while, kind
The coming-of-age celebration of the of clueing us into the fact that the joke is
story has long been types of idiotic mis actually pretty funny.’”
explored on screen, and Jack Cutmore-Scott He also compares his character to famed
86504 now Fox is presenting its stars in “Cooper goof-offer Ferris Bueller: “You go with

Barrett’s Guide to
own look at life after col Surviving Life” [Cooper] on the journey, no matter what
lege in “Cooper Barrett’s
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