By: Charlotte Kruse

         Raising Hope takes a comedic and different approach towards a subject that has been talked about for a long time: teenage parenthood. In this new series, an unambitious teenager Jimmy, from a lower class family, has a fling with a girl who becomes pregnant. Unfortunately, Jimmy isn’t aware that the girl actually murders her boyfriends.

Once Jimmy and his family hear these important details about his new girlfriend, they take her to jail where she is sentenced to the death penalty. Jimmy takes the baby named Hope, home and to the dismay of his family decides to keep it.

            This series is different from other shows or stories about teenage parenthood because the mother usually bears the burden of taking care of the baby alone, but in Raising Hope, the roles are reversed and the father becomes the single parent.

It is interesting to watch how readily Jimmy gives up all of the usual perks of being a teenager and transforms into a responsible young adult when Hope enters his life.   I anticipate this to be a popular comedy, and I am curious to see the development of how this family helps out with Hope.