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Crutch(2025)

Upcoming · Paramount+

8 eps
S01
Comedy
ON AIR: NOV 3Season 1

What to Expect

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Crutch runs on a specific comic premise: a Harlem widower who had finally cleared the runway for his own life watches that plan dissolve the moment his adult kids move back in. The humor is situational and episodic, built from the collision of his carefully arranged independence against two grown children who arrive with incompatible habits and zero apparent awareness of what they are disrupting.

Each episode tends to negotiate territory, literally and otherwise. The son and daughter represent different flavors of intrusion, which keeps the friction from settling into a single repeating joke. What the widower actually loses, episode by episode, is not just space but the version of himself he had started to build, and the comedy lives in how hard and how badly he tries to get it back.

Best for

family conflict, generational comedy and Comedy

Story lane

Comedy

Commitment

Season 1 · 8 episodes

Where

Paramount+

Official Premise

A Harlem widower's empty-nest plans get disrupted when his millennial son and free-spirited daughter move back in, forcing him to navigate new family dynamics and redefine his priorities.

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