It’s been a few years since Sarah Haskins’ Current TV series Target: Women ended, but she’s been working on lots of projects since then. And a new fall show on ABC, Trophy Wife, is based on Haskins’ life.
Here’s the premise, according to TV Line:
Party girl Kate (Malin Akerman) and lawyer Pete (Bradley Whitford) “meet cute,” and in short order she becomes his third wife — following in the footsteps of rigid surgeon Diane (Marcia Gay Harden) and New Age-y Jackie (Michaela Watkins) — and a stepmom to a total of three kids.
As series cocreator EP Sarah Haskins — on whose own marriage Trophy Wife is based — noted, “Kate is going to face the challenge of how other people see her.”
TVLine’s Matt Webb Mitovich writes, “Of the 12 new sitcoms I have screened thus far, Trophy Wife is easily among the Top 4, and upon second viewing might ultimately land in the No. 2 spot.”
The name Trophy Wife is supposed to be ironic, since Kate is so much more than that, and Executive Producer Lee Eisenberg says: “We suspected that people might have certain expectations about it, but ultimately in success a show is a show and the title melts away a little bit. We won’t win or lose because of the title.”
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