The New Normal ended its first season with a pair of strong episodes focused on David and Bryan’s wedding and the long-awaited birth of their son, Sawyer Collins. Though not every loose story thread was tied up, “Finding Name-O” and “The Big Day” were fil more

Earlier this season, an episode of The New Normal like “About a Boy” would’ve had me ready to bury my head in the sand. When the show was just starting out, its focus on “big issues” tended to devolve into heavy-handed arguments between the characters, ma more

As The New Normal reaches the end of its first season, it’s started to finish covering the last few topics about pregnancy a sitcom is expected to. In this week’s episode, “Blood, Sweat and Tears,” the focus fell on who would be in the delivery room and a more

You might recall that during Halloween week in October of last year, Hurricane Sandy hit. The coverage cancelled a lot of pre-scheduled shows, like The New Normal. So, the episode we saw Tuesday night, “Para-New Normal Activity,” is now being shown. That more

In this episode of  The New Normal , “Rocky Bye Baby,” we discover Rocky’s longstanding dream of having a child of  her own. By the end of the episode, she’s adopted the little girl she’s always wanted. Strangely enough, though Bryan and Da more

At first, I thought this episode of  The New Normal , “Dog Children,” was going to be like the rest have and will be up until the birth of  the baby. But, even though it was still in the ballpark of those filler episodes, it did have someth more

There was a longer title for this review of  The New Normal  episode “Dairy Queen”–”Milk, Milk, Everywhere, But Not Enough for Shania to Drink.” Shania’s odd (but endearing?) fixation on getting her mother’s breastmilk is really what 1/3 of the more

The New Normal ‘s “Gaydar;” it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Well, I guess it wasn’t that melodramatic of a show, but, to echo a little of what I said last week, there are some themes the show retreads often and sometimes not in the mo more