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''Life Unexpected'' is an American drama television series that aired for two seasons from 2010 to 2011. It was produced by Best Day Ever Productions and Mojo Films in association with CBS Television Studios and Warner Bros. Television and broadcast by The CW. Created by Liz Tigelaar, who served as an executive producer with Gary Fleder and Janet Leahy, the series starred Britt Robertson, Shiri Appleby, Kristoffer Polaha, and Kerr Smith. Set in Portland, the story follows Lux Cassidy, a teenager who was given up at birth and has spent her life in foster care who finds her biological parents Nate Bazile and Cate Cassidy. Wishing to become emancipated, Lux is instead given in to their custody. While ''Life Unexpected'' received mostly positive reviews, it struggled in the ratings and was cancelled by The CW in 2011. The show has since been released on DVD and it is also available on Netflix.com through their streaming service. ==Plot== Teenager Lux (Britt Robertson) had been through the foster care system for almost her whole life. Cate Cassidy (Shiri Appleby) had given birth to her while still a teen but, upon the advice of her mother, gave her up for adoption after being promised by Social Services that the baby would find a wonderful home. Due to heart problems as a baby (she had atrial septal disorder), and countless surgeries, she was not even available for adoption until after the age of three. Most likely because of those issues, Lux was never adopted. On her 16th birthday, she decides that it's time for her to become an emancipated minor, but before that occurs, she has to get signatures from her unknown birth parents. First she encounters former high-school football quarterback, Nathaniel "Baze" Bazile (Kristoffer Polaha), her birth father and operator of the Open Bar, a business he operates out of a building given to him by his father. Baze lives a semi-fraternity boy lifestyle above the drinking establishment with two roommates, Math (Austin Basis), a high school teacher and Baze's childhood best friend, and Jamie (Reggie Austin), who also works at the bar. However, even when he signs the papers, Baze discovers that he is already bonding with his newfound daughter, and realizes that she has his eyes. He introduces Lux to her mother Cate, co-host of the "Morning Madness" drive time show at Portland radio station K-100 and Baze's former one-night stand from high school. Lux has been listening to Cate's voice on the radio as long as she can remember, so she feels an instant connection with the mom she's never met. Baze takes Lux to meet Cate, who is shocked and saddened to learn that Lux has grown up in foster care instead of the adoption she believed would take place and is reluctant to commit to her daughter. Eventually, Cate wants to be a part of Lux's life, and she shows that she really does care. When a judge decides that Lux isn't ready for emancipation and unexpectedly grants temporary joint custody to Baze and Cate, they agree to try to get past the awkwardness. Cate, due to her job as a radio host, and the fact that she has a suitable house, is given primary custody of Lux. Ryan Thomas (Kerr Smith), her radio broadcast partner, as well as her fiance, also takes to Lux and has bonded with her as well, sometimes being able to get through to her better than her parents, due to similar issues that they have had. As the series progresses, though, Baze becomes more responsible, and works harder to get the bar and the loft apartment above it in shape so that Lux can be able to visit and stay with him. He eventually succeeds in this by setting aside a corner of his loft as a bedroom for Lux. Due to their close bond, Baze, the one that was considered to perhaps be more of a slacker, had proven that when the chips are down, he inevitably comes through for Lux, giving her support and love. Cate, despite her constantly disappointing Lux, still means well. Her radio show is produced by Alice (Erin Karpluk), who often serves as her confidante. Ryan, in some ways jealous and insecure because of Baze's constant presence in his fiancee's life, gets resentful and has physically fought Baze. Ryan, finally fed up with Baze's continual interference, breaks it off with Cate. Eventually though, Ryan and Cate reconnect, and their engagement is back on. He also relents a bit towards Baze after the two have drinks and Baze explains that all he is to Cate is the father of Lux, and nothing else. By the series end, though, Baze and Ryan are good friends. Baze's bar is owned by his father Jack (Robin Thomas), who considers Baze a disappointment but softens towards him somewhat in later episodes, due to Lux's entrance in their lives. Baze himself later buys the bar. Also seen is Cate's four-times-divorced mother, Laverne (Cynthia Stevenson), whose idea it was to convince Cate into giving up Lux; and Baze's level headed and more understanding mother, Ellen (Susan Hogan). Both women meet Lux, and both of them love her, although Ellen seems to have the stronger grandmotherly bond with her. After attending Longfellow High, a rough high school in Portland, Cate registers Lux at Westmonte High, the school she, Baze and Math all attended (and where Math himself works as a teacher), this development, at first, infuriated Lux; but she adapts, makes friends and meets her later boyfriend, popular football player, Jones Mager (Austin Butler) who, like her father, was also the quarterback. Lux has several friends from her old life, including her childhood best friend Natasha Siviac (Ksenia Solo), whom she had known since she was seven (they had met at Sunnyvale, the foster care home); Lux's first boyfriend Bug Guthrie (Rafi Gavron), and Tasha's boyfriend Gavin (Rhys Williams). She must decide whether she can continue to have her old friends in her life as she attempts new friendships. Sometimes, Bug is known for doing things which brings him in trouble with the law, and that sometimes imperils Lux's life with Baze and Cate. Her case is handled by her longtime social worker, Fern Redmund (Lucia Walters), who is also instrumental in helping Cate and Baze get their parental rights reinstated, which does happen, and they become a family, officially. Due to this, Fern becomes a family friend. Baze, at variant times, incurs Cate's wrath when it is discovered that he is sleeping with her younger sister and Lux's aunt, Abby (Alex Breckenridge), who is a neurotic therapist and practitioner of yoga. Baze also slept with Ryan's sister Paige (Arielle Kebbel) after a drunk incident in season two. Lux meets a young man at Baze's bar, Eric Daniels (Shaun Sipos), and goes on a date with him, only to later find out he is her new teacher. The second season deals with Lux's affair with her teacher, which was ended when Eric left town on Cate and Baze's orders that they would call the police if he didn't resign his job and leave Portland; Cate and Ryan's new marriage and their attempts to have a child, and Baze's relationship with his coworker Emma Bradshaw (Emma Caulfield) and her son, Sam. Later on, Natasha (who lives on her own now, due to independent living) becomes more of a part of the family's life (Bug and Gavin both are no longer seen, Bug having left town after Lux turning down his engagement) and is often seen with her best friend Lux. Cate miscarried her child with Ryan because of some condition that she developed after having Lux and that, due to the condition, Lux would be the only child she would ever have. This news created a stronger bond between Cate and Lux, and Lux finally realizes that her mom loves her and won't let any harm come to her. After nearly giving in to his desire for her, Baze breaks it off with Emma in the wake of learning from Lux that Emma had had an affair with his dad; Not when he was going out with her, but his dad cheated on his mother. Baze stated that he could never be with Emma without thinking of his father. The show then fast-forwards two years at which point Lux is delivering the commencement speech at her graduation. It is revealed that Ryan and Julia are together and have a young son from their affair. And, of course, Baze and Cate are finally together as a couple, kissing to reveal it. Lux also kisses Jones, revealing that they end up together and Tasha is happy for them. The family and friends take a photo with their functional happy families. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Life Unexpected」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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