Crutch

Matt Roush says...

Tune into The Neighborhood on CBS (8/7c) to meet Frank “Crutch” Crutchfield (Tracy Morgan), cousin to Calvin (Cedric the Entertainer) and an impediment to Malcolm’s (Sheaun McKinney) home renovation when he shows up without being invited to help fix his floors. The episode helps set up Crutch, a traditional sitcom built around the widowed Crutch’s family home on the opposite coast in Harlem, which he’s thrilled is now an empty nest — until his family has other plans. The Neighborhood‘s Cedric the Entertainer and Tichina Arnold guest star in the first of eight episodes (all available for binge-watching), showing up to celebrate the law-school graduation of Crutch’s son Jake (Jermaine Fowler), which also brings his daughter Jamilah (Adrianna Mitchell) and her two kids from Minneapolis. To Crutch’s dismay, he learns they’re all here to stay, and Jake’s post-grad plans have little to do with making money. “What is going on?” Crutch bellows. Nothing more nor less than the set-up for an old-fashioned family sitcom, albeit with saltier language that you tend to hear on CBS. The supporting cast includes Tony winner Kecia Lewis as Crutch’s hypercritical sister-in-law, Antoinette.

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