CBS’ So Help Me Todd, maybe higher considered Take Your Hot Son to Work, is the story of a personal investigator compelled to analyze essentially the most non-public factor of all — his relationship together with his mom.
When we meet Skylar Astin‘s titular sleuth in Thursday’s premiere, he’s busting a lady in the midst of a grocery retailer for accumulating incapacity regardless of having healed from an harm she suffered whereas working at an airport. The sight of her kids is an excessive amount of for Todd to deal with, so he agrees to delete his proof if she guarantees to return to work. I’m no heart specialist, however I reckon our boy Todd has a coronary heart of gold.
Todd’s mom’s coronary heart, alternatively, may be very a lot of the stone selection. Played to uptight perfection by Marcia Gay Harden, Margaret by no means misses an opportunity to remind her son how displeased she is together with his life selections, notably those that received him stripped of his non-public investigator license. (Something a couple of crooked mentor who tricked Todd into getting charged with wire tapping and forgery? Honestly, there was a number of backstory squeezed into this primary hour.)
In addition to being a high-powered lawyer, Margaret can also be a Mom with a capital M. She by accident calls her children on FaceTime, she mixes up celebrities’ names, and she or he particularly asks folks to ship e-mails to her cellphone — regardless that, as Todd can’t resist mentioning, you don’t have to inform somebody the place to ship an e-mail. You can entry it from just about anyplace.
Anyway, these polar reverse people are all of a sudden compelled to spend so much extra time collectively when Margaret’s husband Harry goes lacking, instantly sending Todd again into P.I. mode. Using each device in his arsenal (largely social media stalking), Todd ultimately catches Harry on a flight to Iceland. He isn’t dying of Parkinson’s, as he led Margaret to imagine — he simply doesn’t wish to be along with her anymore. He says she’s too vital, and she or he doesn’t let him be himself, a pair of grievances Todd is all too acquainted with.
But Todd doesn’t merely observe down Margaret’s husband on this first hour. He additionally assists her with a homicide trial, one she ultimately wins by forcing the defendant’s mom to out herself as the actual killer. It’s a kind of extraordinarily on-the-nose conditions the place the end result of a case additionally teaches the lawyer an necessary life lesson, however this present is cute, so we’ll permit it.
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