From trying to keep calm for their parents to learning that coupons aren't great as gifts to that, DNA testing sucks. Life in Pieces makes another good episode this week.
There were a lot of hits and only a miss in this week's discussion episode of Life in Pieces. Jen's Parents visiting for a while gets Jen and Greg to tag team so none of them would go wild. But it turns out that the tag caused them to stay a while longer because they think that their marriage is in jeopardy.
While learning about a family story, Joan and Sophie do a family DNA testing. They know that the family member that Joan considers to have the most incredible love story ever told happens to be a sham when a great uncle married her niece when she was a baby, who happens to be the person she was talking about, which was probably one of the funniest stories in the episode.
Matt gives Colleen her birthday gift of coupons for what he could do to help her. But instead of complaining about them, she puts them to good use and gives Matt the total runaround of chores. The episode ends with Matt learning that coupons are the worst birthday gift, and Colleen gives Joan her coupon for Matt to do the dishes in a French maid outfit.
The last story might have been missed in this episode, but it was still funny. At Sam's poem night at school, Tim and Heather try to give her space while Heather reunites with a high school crush who's playing. Tim gets jealous, Heather is upset, and the two act like total teens and seek advice from Sam and her date. But Tim makes her move and wins her over, and dances the night away very awkwardly.
"Parents Ancestry Coupon Chaperone" was another well-written and well-performed, mostly Dianne Wiest, whose Joan stole the episode in the family history and the coupon used on Matt. Colin Hanks and Zoe Lister-Jones were funny, as usual. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.
You can catch Life In Pieces on Thursdays at 9:30/8:30 on CBS.
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