"Raising Hope," a new dark comedy from the creator of "My Name is Earl," is about a sweet but directionless young man who suddenly becomes the father of a six-month-old baby when his unstable one-night stand sort of, well, disappears on him.
Jimmy (Lucas Neff) has no job and no life plan (but he does have awesome cover art if he ever records an album), not to mention a terrible support system in his bungling family. Still, when he discovers he's a dad, he ignores the advice of his mother (Martha Plimpton) to "safe drop it at the fire station," vowing to keep and raise Princess Beyonce himself. And even though his mother is right that keeping the baby will "dramastically change" his life, that's okay with him. He wants to change his life.


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