I can’t tell you how much I was looking forward to this show.  It was touted as Gilmore Girls meets Juno.  Awesome.   I can’t think of a better pairing.  And you know what.  It delivered.

So the story goes… A 15 year old girl gets pregnant and puts the baby up for adoption.  She never tells the dad so he assumed she got and abortion.  Turns out the baby has a hole in her heart so no one will adopt her.  She gets passed around from foster home to foster home.  She’s pretty jaded.  Doesn’t trust anyone.

The show starts with her trying to get emancipated at 15 turning 16 very soon.  Problem is her birth parents never singed over their rights so she has to get their signatures in order to do it.  She goes and finds them and that’s where the show gets good.

Remember in Gilmore Girls when Rory slept with a married Dean?  How can you forget?  I know.  It was devastating.  Well there’s one of those moments here where the birth parents who are both in relationships sleep with each other.  They decide it was a mistake and go back to their lives but I can’t help being disappointed in them.  Especially since the mom was getting engaged.

I’m willing to forgive this though because I think the show has amazing potential.  It’s shot beautifully and the characters are really interesting and I already care about what happens to them.

If you didn’t catch if Monday it’s being shown again tonight, Wednesday, at 8pm on The CW.  Did anyone else catch this?  What did you think?

Life Unexpected is on Mondays at 9pm on The CW.