Season One



Grounded For Life is about the comedic interplay of the Irish Catholic Finnerty family living in a neighborhood of Staten Island, New York. The series centers around the lives of Sean and Claudia Finnerty, who had their first child and got married when they were only 18 years old. Their eldest child is Lily Finnerty, a teenage daughter, who is bratty and rebellious, often challenging her parents, who are themselves relatively young and not finished with their "wild" years. Her brothers include Jimmy, who likes to read and go to school, and Henry, an eternal optimist. Sean's slacker brother, Eddie Finnerty and his tough father, Walt Finnerty also make regular appearances. The show features an unusual style of storytelling, often starting with a scene at the end of the story or sometimes in the middle and filling in the gaps with flashbacks. Its main concepts are an Irish/Italian Catholic family with one daughter and two sons, surviving endless catastrophes, utilizing flashbacks to further explain each current situation.