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‘Cooper Barrett’S Guide to SurvivinG Life’ | ON THE COVER
Live and learn
New Fox comedy Guide to Surviving Life,” premiering
celebrates the post- Sunday, Jan. 3 on Fox.
Fox is really delivering on the comedies
college struggle this season. The Emmy- and Golden Globe- Ladies Consignments 78132
winning “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” just wrapped Size 14 and up
By Jacqueline Spendlove its third successful season, while the ever- Tues.-Fri. 10-6 pm | Sat. 10-4 pm
TV Media popular “New Girl” is about to kick off its mybigsistersclosetboutique.com
fifth. “Grandfathered” and “The Grinder,” 119 N. Main St., Lowell, NC 28098
E very spring, countless wide-eyed secured full-season orders, while “Scream 704-824-5403
two sitcoms new to the fall lineup, have
20-somethings cross a stage, pick up
Queens,” which debuted in September, won
a diploma and shake the Dean’s hand,
envisioning what they’re going to do, what the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Janice Gravley
esteemed and high-paying position they’ll Most Exciting New Series. Clearly, “Cooper Anna Puckett
soon hold now that college is finally Barrett,” already extended from six takes and absurd misadventures that many
behind them and real life is about episodes to 13, is in good company. of us encounter in that half-adult period
to begin. When we meet the titular of our 20s, when we’re no longer students
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
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 happens.”
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Live and learn
New Fox comedy Guide to Surviving Life,” premiering
celebrates the post- Sunday, Jan. 3 on Fox.
Fox is really delivering on the comedies
college struggle this season. The Emmy- and Golden Globe- Ladies Consignments 78132
winning “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” just wrapped Size 14 and up
By Jacqueline Spendlove its third successful season, while the ever- Tues.-Fri. 10-6 pm | Sat. 10-4 pm
TV Media popular “New Girl” is about to kick off its mybigsistersclosetboutique.com
fifth. “Grandfathered” and “The Grinder,” 119 N. Main St., Lowell, NC 28098
E very spring, countless wide-eyed secured full-season orders, while “Scream 704-824-5403
two sitcoms new to the fall lineup, have
20-somethings cross a stage, pick up
Queens,” which debuted in September, won
a diploma and shake the Dean’s hand,
envisioning what they’re going to do, what the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Janice Gravley
esteemed and high-paying position they’ll Most Exciting New Series. Clearly, “Cooper Anna Puckett
soon hold now that college is finally Barrett,” already extended from six takes and absurd misadventures that many
behind them and real life is about episodes to 13, is in good company. of us encounter in that half-adult period
to begin. When we meet the titular of our 20s, when we’re no longer students
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
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 happens.”
2 Piedmont V January 3 - 9, 2016 January 3 - 9, 2016 Piedmont tV 3
